May 23, 2003

MOBILE (AL)
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(MOBILE, Ala.) May 22 – A school teacher and minister is out on bond after being arrested on sex charges involving a minor.


Members of the Fellowship Church in Eight Mile continue to pray for their pastor 40-year-old Stanley Porter who was arrested and charged with sodomy and sexual abuse of a minor.


Local parents NBC 15 interviewed are not as forgiving. “He should be prosecuted. He really should to the fullest ’cause it’s too much of it goin’ on,” said parent Julie Ward


Roderick Randolph agreed, “I think it’s really messed up that we got adults that have to take out they sexual intents on kids.”


Others say will let the courts decide whether the Calloway-Smith teacher had sex with a former student and offered that student money to perform sexual acts. “I guess he’s innocent until proven guilty,” said Liz Kondroske,”but if he’s guilty he deserves to go to jail, and I don’t think he should be in the school system.”

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