A Cedarville University professor and author on Christian sexual ethics has been arrested on eight felony charges, including rape and sexual battery involving a minor.

A former Cedarville University finance professor whose writings promote a Christian ethic of marriage and sexuality was arrested Tuesday on eight sex-related felony charges involving one or more minors.

The indictment, filed March 27 in Ohio’s Greene County Common Pleas Court, charges John Kent Tarwater with two counts of rape, three counts of sexual battery and three counts of gross sexual imposition.

He was booked into Greene County jail in southwest Ohio, where he remained in custody as of Wednesday morning. No defense counsel was listed in public court records, and no hearing or trial dates were disclosed.

  • certified_expertEnglish
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    14 days ago

    So for catholics the wine has to be unadultered? Like with alcohol and all?

    • backalleycoyote@lemmy.todayEnglish
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      14 days ago

      The Council of Trent decreed it must be fermented grape juice, though in the modern era they have added that it can be low alcohol content, cut with water, and if for some reason the person cannot have alcohol a substitute may be made. But it has to be a very good reason and special permission on the last one.