LOUISIANA
New Orleans Advocate
BY MATT SLEDGE| MSLEDGE@THEADVOCATE.COM
June 25, 2015
Police are searching for a youth minister affiliated with the New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary in Gentilly who they believe sexually abused two teenage boys and may have more victims in parishes across the region.
Ryan Scott Rodgers, 36, is accused of touching two teenage boys while they were sleeping. The boys then woke up to find Rogers fondling them, police said. The abuse occurred for more than a year, according to police.
NOPD Detective Stephanie Taillon said Rodgers abused the boys during sleepovers at his house and elsewhere.
“He groomed them for future molestations,” she said.
The case was brought to authorities’ attention when the boys’ mother contacted police, Taillon said.
Rodgers is not married and is not a registered sex offender.
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