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Monday, November 04, 2013

Minister Gets 2 Years For Setting Fire In Phony Chesterfield Hate Crime

A black Baptist minister from Chesterfield County was sentenced Thursday to serve two years in prison for setting his front porch ablaze in a phony hate crime attack that included racist graffiti he painted to deceive police.

Olander D. Cuthrell, 41, a minister of music at Gospel Shepherd Baptist Church, told the judge he was both ashamed and embarrassed for pouring a mixture of oil and gasoline across part of his family’s front porch and igniting it March 15 after becoming overwhelmed by financial problems.
Minutes before, he spray-painted the N-word on two sides of his rental house in the 7800 block of Little Ridge Court to divert attention from himself and bolster his claim of being the target of a racially motivated attack.

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8 comments:

Anonymous said...

And he get his income tax free because he is a "church"

Anonymous said...

If you have true remorse then the Lord will forgive you. I pray for you, that you heal from whatever would cause you to do this.

Anonymous said...

I wonder if this will show up in the main stream media?

Anonymous said...

11:05 It should. No different that a suicide bomber. Religion is going to tear this world apart. Good job hypocrites!

Anonymous said...

10:39: "Whatever caused you to do this..."?

How about greed? Stupidity? Finding a simple and easy way out?
Remorse? Hell yes, he has remorse. He got caught, didn't he? He'll have a long time to be even more remorseful - and also a long time to have a conversation with his Invisible Friend - behind bars.
He'll blame it on the other invisible enemy: "The devil made me do it."

Anonymous said...

Tax the churches!

Anonymous said...

Maybe he should've received the same penalty that one would have received for the alleged crime (maybe 25 to life?). I mean he did get everybody all worked up by insinuating that it was a "hate" crime.

Anonymous said...

That's a huge problem in this country 10:38. The penalty for a falsely reported crime is never proportional to the penalty of the the crime falsely reported. As you would imagine, if you are accused and somehow found guilty of let's say rape, a felony, you would get life. But now let's say that it is later discovered that your accuser made up the story, the penalty for that person would be a misdemeanor with a sentence of maybe 3 years!