Anti-gay pastor who said LGBT community ‘deserved’ Orlando massacre arrested for molesting boy

GEORGIA
New York Daily News

CHRISTOPHER BRENNAN
NEW YORK DAILY NEWS
Updated: Friday, August 26, 2016

A conservative Florida pastor who said that the victims of the Orlando massacre got “what they deserve” is being charged with child molestation.

Bishop Kenneth Adkins was arrested by Georgia authorities on Friday after allegations that he molested a boy under the age of 16.

The 56-year-old clergyman, who runs churches in Jacksonville, Atlanta and Brunswick, Ga., gained notoriety in the immediate aftermath of Omar Mateen’s shooting at Pulse nightclub in June.

He posted on Twitter that he had “been through so much with these Jacksonville homosexuals that I don’t see none of them as victims. I see them as getting what they deserve.”

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