A UCG man plead not guilty this week to sexually abusing a Grand Forks 12-year-old.
*Robert David Teitgen, 52, is facing three charges of gross sexual imposition and one charge of luring a minor by a computer.
According to court documents, Grand Forks police received a tip on a suspected child abuse report that a 12-year-old ‘Jane Doe’ told her older brother she had been “molested” by Teitgen.
The father of the minor told police that he and his son then found sexually inappropriate texts, photos and videos on his daughters cell phone.
The minor was interviewed last June 25, 2020, when she told investigators that Teitgen had sexually assaulted her on multiple occasions, including while she was sleeping. Photos were also located on Teitgen’s Facebook account that appeared to show him exposing himself to her, according to court documents. Similar photos that appear to be screenshots of a live video chat between Teitgen and the minor were also located.
Teitgen is next scheduled to appear for a final dispositional conference on May 27.
- He is the son of the late UCG minister named Herb Teitgen. He is also attended UCG’s, Ambassador Bible Center and worked briefly for LifeNets.
This illustrates very well that you can’t just assume that the people with which you attend services are necessarily ‘good’ people, dedicated to the truth and striving for moral character.
In fact, the churches of god, United included, seem to be grifters plying a con. They are effectively sales organizations attempting to sell a product which does not exist and never will, originally founded by a grifter plying a con.
None of the churches of god seem to be at all effective in solving any of the problems they create. So far, they’ve proved to be inept, whether we are talking about abuse, assault, theft, lying, even murder. Some of us remember Don Weininger shooting his wife outside her divorce attorney’s office and then committing suicide. It was a big deal in Spokane at the time,. but rather effectively covered up by the WCG outside the Spokane area. Then there was the murder of several church members in the Seattle area by Chuck Harris who wanted to marry someone but was refused to be approved by Dennis Luker, the pastor at the time. Little did our illustrious Mr. Luker seem to know that Chuck was already married to a woman in Canada. As a side note to this, Chuck was highly influential with the teens in the area, being ‘a cool guy’ and all, which led to two of the teens committing murder during a drug deal and going to prison in the aftermath. The dad of one of the teens was a deacon and later a local elder.
Then there was the LCG shooting after Sabbath services in the church, killing the minister and injuring others. Roderick Meredith didn’t seem to be ruling with a rod of iron back then, or maybe he was and that was the trouble.
The church has had spectacularly boozing alcoholic ministers. One of them stumbled up to the lectern in the morning of Pentecost. In the afternoon, Roderick Meredith gave a blistering sermon about said boozing alcoholics.
What hardly anyone knows is that in the WCG there was a cadre of bisexual married men who carried on with one another. After one such husband left the church, he felt openly comfortable attending a gay pride march.
This is not to say that other churches don’t have problems. They do. On A&E’s Leah Remini: Scientology and the Aftermath, she showed how pathetically the children were treated by Scientology — most of them were denied their childhood and not a few were denied their own parents. In one segment, pedophilia was exposed for the Jehovah’s Witnesses. They couldn’t deal with it either. They covered it all up, particularly when it occurred at the highest levels within the church.
So if you are still attending a church of god, be aware that it might not necessarily be safe. One single woman was stalked by a man in the church and she came to be informed by her insurance agent that she was named on her husband’s life insurance policy as being covered. This was amazing because she had never been married, and, of course, it was a stalker.
It would be unwise to enter into any business dealings with any of the members unless, in the unlikely event, they were deemed by the community to be qualified and competent. Many a transaction went south and people lost lots of money… and property.
The WCG was always known for gossip and backstabbing. Don’t assume that the tradition has gone extinct, even if the WCG has. It is still alive and well. It would be most wise to keep your personal business close to the vest because if you don’t, it may become widely known all over the world, and that — in some instances — within 5 days.
Look at it this way: You may have spent decades sitting next to someone in church, believing that you had like beliefs — then one day, there was a change in direction, the WCG split up and you found magically that you never knew the person at all… and then they were gone. You also may have found yourself disfellowshipped because of someone else’s interests when you were guilty of nothing wrong.
It was and still is a highly dysfunctional and sometimes very dangerous venue. We should not neglect to mention the good things… if only we could think of them.
I recall those stories you mentioned. I have forgotten that over the decades, the murder that is, and see that the same crap goes on even if we don’t see it. Human behavior never changes over time. It repeats the same mistakes over and over. When armstrongism dies off eventually, another will take its place and the same behaviors seen in the wcg will be on display once again within another group. It goes on and on because humanity is terminally stupid.
As for this guy in this article, we will see if the facts back up the charges. As usual we treat the man with the motto “innocent until proved guilty” as it should be.
“When armstrongism dies off eventually, another will take its place and the same behaviors seen in the wcg will be on display once again within another group.”
It seems as if we see this behavior now in the globalist elite, the Deep State and the Democrats — except for the name on the door, who can tell the difference.
What we have seen in the WCG should give us better understanding to what we see today — except what it is today is on a much grander scale. It’s all there though, from the murders, intrigue to the hypocrisy and oppression.
History rhymes.