My first thought was Trans World Radio probably doesn’t screen employees, if they have that much of a reach, they’ll take who they can get.
My second thought was Focus on the Family probably does have a code of conduct, and this guy had to be a good actor to fool so many co-workers.
My next thought was faith comes by hearing and hearing by the word of God.Â
42 year old Jaun Ovalle isn’t going to be remembered for his bible reading.
Juan Alberto Ovalle has made his living reading it.
A good enough living to form his own company - Spanish Christian Audio. Â
He’s been charged with criminal attempted sexual assault on a child and Internet luring of a child.
Yesterday Fotf didn’t say they were going to fire him. Now that the affidavit is up, it’s like he didn’t exist.
They scrubbed their website faster than he tried to lure an undercover police officer he believed was under 15 years old. He’s still in jail on a 25 thousand dollar bond, doesn’t look like  former co-workers are stepping up to bail him out. He’ll be formally charged later this week.
Then I thought about the bible salesman in Flannery O’Conner’s Good Country People.
A lot of people who look good on the outside can have some rather dark behavior on the inside; I recall one serial killer in Kansas, Dennis Rader, was a well-respected elder in his Lutheran church. Other people who are otherwise good churchmen will have a p0rn problem; the Internet makes such stuff easier, since you don’t have to sneak into the wrong side of town to get stuff anymore.
You’re not much of a FotF fan to say the least, but this can happen in the best of places as well as the worst.
By the way, you don’t have any link to the story proper-here seems to be one good one.
http://www.thedenverchannel.com/newsarchive/19107378/detail.html
Thanks Mark.
Focus is a huge workforce, and companies and institutions can be an easy place to blend in. It’s no surprise people with problems, addictions, impluse control etc., are going to be part of the larger group.
I agree, it can happen anywhere, it’s always more of a story when the organization hold others (and itself) to higher standards.