GA. Democrat Candidate Raphael Warnock’s Involvement in Child-Abuse Case at Church Camp Which Led to HIS Arrest

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Police Reports Shed Light on Warnock’s 2002 Arrest for Obstruction: ‘Extremely Uncooperative and Disruptive’

Warnock repeatedly disrupted child abuse investigation, reports say

By Brittany Bernstein, Washington Free Beacon, December 8, 2020:

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Georgia Democratic Senate candidate Raphael Warnock repeatedly disrupted a 2002 police investigation into child abuse at a church-affiliated summer camp, interfering with interviews and discouraging counselors from speaking with investigators, according to two Maryland State Police reports obtained by the Washington Free Beacon.

The records indicate that Warnock, who was at the time senior pastor of the church that operated the camp, insisted that the camp’s attorneys be present. While police said the counselors themselves were free to request an attorney, Warnock could not do so on their behalf.

Warnock went on to disrupt the interviews on July 31, 2002: “This investigator informed [camp administrators] that if the counselors requested that an attorney be present that was their right, however, no one else could [invoke] their rights to an attorney on their behalf,” the report reads.

While the names in the documents are blacked out, the reports track closely with contemporaneous newspaper articles about the incident, which led to Warnock’s arrest. The charges were ultimately dropped by the state attorney. The Baltimore Sun reported on Aug. 3, 2002, that Warnock and a colleague were “accused in court documents of trying to prevent a state trooper of interviewing counselors at Camp Farthest Out” and that the ministers “interrupted a police interview of a counselor.” Warnock told the paper that he was “only asserting that lawyers should be present when the camp counselors were interviewed.”

Warnock said in Sunday’s debate that law enforcement officers “actually later thanked me for my cooperation and for helping them,” and the deputy state attorney told the Baltimore Sun the same thing in November of 2002.

But the police report paints a more complicated picture of the events. Filed by state troopers after Warnock and another reverend were arrested for “hindering and obstructing” police, the records indicate that investigators repeatedly warned Warnock to stop interfering with the investigation before he was arrested.

Warnock is locked in a tight race against Republican Kelly Loefller, who has worked to paint him as a radical out of step with Georgia voters. Loeffler has seized on Warnock’s anti-police rhetoric, and the newly unearthed records threaten to complicate his efforts to portray himself as an ally of law enforcement.

The Warnock campaign did not respond to a request for comment.

Maryland State Police and Child Protective Services investigators responded to allegations of child abuse taking place at Camp Farthest Out, a Maryland summer camp run by the Douglas Memorial Community Church. Warnock served as the senior pastor at the time, and sources told the Washington Free Beacon that the case pertained to allegations of physical abuse at the camp.

She said the men entered the room while investigators were interviewing counselors, demanded to sit in on interviews despite police admonitions that the participation of third parties was not permitted and ultimately directed potential witnesses not to cooperate with police.

Investigators had scheduled interviews with several counselors around 10 a.m. on July 31, according to the arresting officer. Although Warnock and camp administrators initially agreed to cooperate when investigators arrived, they soon expressed concerns about “legal ramifications from the alleged abuse case” and demanded that the camp’s attorney be present for any interviews with counselors or campers.

Tfc. Danielle Barry, a veteran investigator with the Maryland State Police’s child abuse division, wrote in her July 31, 2002, report that Warnock and another church official named Rev. Mark Andre Wainwright “interfered with a criminal investigation by interrupting interviews and directing people not to talk to investigators.”

As investigators were conducting their first scheduled interview with a counselor in a private camp office, Warnock and Wainwright entered the room and “demanded that [they] be present for the interview,” according to the report. Barry told them they were “not permitted to join the interview.”

The reverends argued they should be allowed in the room because the subject was only 17 years old, according to the report, and Barry warned them that they were “hindering and obstructing the investigation.”

Warnock then told investigators that they could no longer use the camp office for interviews. The reverends told Barry that they “did not like how things were progressing and therefore ‘they’ would not be cooperating in the case further.” Barry said she again warned Warnock and Wainwright not to disrupt or interfere with the case.

“This investigator explained to the reverends that what they were doing was committing a crime for which they could be arrested,” the report says.

Investigators moved to an outside picnic area to continue to conduct their scheduled meetings. A few minutes into an interview with another subject, Warnock and Wainwright “approached these investigators and the subject being interviewed” and again demanded to sit in on the interview, according to the report.

“This investigator commented to the reverends that she was surprised to see them in light of the recent conversation,” wrote Barry. She said she was forced to cut the interview short due to their interference.

Shortly after, investigators were approached by a camper who tried to give them the location of another potential subject to interview. At that point, one of the reverends walked over and “grabbed the camper by the arm and directed him away from these investigators” and “told the camper that he was not to talk to these people,” according to the report.

Barry said she then contacted the deputy state attorney about the interference, and a decision was made to arrest Revs. Warnock and Wainwright.

Sgt. Jim DeWees, who was Barry’s supervisor at the time, arrived at the police barracks to transport Warnock to the central booking unit until after the arrest. He noted in a subsequent police report that the reverend was “very cooperative” while being transported.

DeWees also wrote that Barry advised him that Warnock and Wainwright were “extremely uncooperative and disruptive,” that they “entered a room while she was speaking to a witness” and “interfered by telling campers and counselors that they were not to speak with the police.”

The run-off election is scheduled for Jan. 5.

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spfoam1
spfoam1
3 years ago

The Democrat Party is the home of every enemy we have. They have a purpose, and it’s not to serve the citizens of the USA or share prosperity. They are here to contaminate us to death.

Rusty
Rusty
3 years ago
Reply to  spfoam1

Democrat Platform in 1840, 1844, 1848
“All efforts by abolitionists … to interfere with questions of slavery … are calculated to lead to the most alarming and dangerous consequences and … have all inevitable tendency to diminish the happiness of the people and endanger the stability and permanency of the Union.”
Democrat Platform in 1852
“The Democrat Party will resist all attempts at renewing – in Congress or out of it – the agitation of the slavery question [i.e., will oppose all efforts to abolish slavery].”
Mychal Massie provided these pieces and pointed this out: ” Because over 425 newspapers nationwide did the bidding of Democrat Franklin D. Roosevelt and his Secretary of State Cordell Hull – millions of innocent Jews were murdered. Had the media simply done its job and reported Hitler’s atrocities the world may have turned against him in time to prevent the industrialized slaughter of human beings.” Funny how the more things change the more they say the same!
https://tinyurl.com/ya6pegz7
Historian: New evidence shows FDR’s bigotry derailed many Holocaust rescue plans
https://www.timesofisrael.com/historian-new-evidence-shows-fdrs-bigotry-derailed-many-holocaust-rescue-plans/

VTS
VTS
3 years ago
Reply to  Rusty

Democrooked party is the scum of the earth.

blackfeather
blackfeather
3 years ago

some of that “black rage” eh warnock? what a bastard.

Rusty
Rusty
3 years ago
Reply to  blackfeather

What irony that a Black Democrat may have never been born had Margaret Sanger achieved her goals. And like Warnock she was a socialist. Paul Kengor points out in his book “Takedown” that Sanger had an affair with Fabian Socialist HG Wells. Sanger was not anti “human weeds,’ but was a free love radical that would have fit in quite nicely with the SDS and Weather Underground types like Bill Ayers, Kathy Boudin, and Diana Oughton.

mati261000
mati261000
3 years ago

¨Seek and ye shall find.¨

Ron Jeremy
Ron Jeremy
3 years ago

No wonder he does not like the police. They would not let him beat the kids.

Ron Jeremy
Ron Jeremy
3 years ago

No wonder he does not like the police. They would not let him beat the kids.

ed
ed
3 years ago

Warnock involved in a child-abuse case ?? Why is he running for the Senate when it is clear that he is far more qualified to have a position in Child-Sniffer Biden’s Cabinet ???

VTS
VTS
3 years ago
Reply to  ed

For same reason peado Joe ran for president. This is their way to sweep their crimes under the rug.

ed
ed
3 years ago

Warnock involved in a child-abuse case ?? Why is he running for the Senate when it is clear that he is far more qualified to have a position in Child-Sniffer Biden’s Cabinet ???

SocialDistanceJusticeWarrior
SocialDistanceJusticeWarrior
3 years ago

The demrats will successfully steal this one as well.

blackfeather
blackfeather
3 years ago

…and that S.O.B. is gonna tell me how to live? F this animal.

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