UXBRIDGE (MA)
Telegram & Gazette
By Susan Spencer TELEGRAM & GAZETTE STAFF
UXBRIDGE — A pastor’s wife has won a year-long restraining order against her husband after claiming her husband abused her and had welcomed young women into her home for sex.
In an Uxbridge District Court hearing yesterday, in an affidavit filed by Beth Stanley, she accused her husband, Dennis H. Stanley, of making her sleep downstairs while he was with the female guests. A judge initially granted a temporary restraining order Monday but extended it Friday after hearing from Mrs. Stanley. The pastor of the non-denominational Church of the End Times was arrested after a standoff with police Monday.
In the affidavit Mrs. Stanley filed on Monday for the restraining order she said: “My husband invited ten girls to live in our house for the last week or more. He now sleeps upstairs with them in bed. My husband believes this is the love he needs and can get from them. … My husband and his girlfriends have locked me out of our house!” …
Dennis Stanley, reached by phone yesterday, said, “She’s (my wife) obviously trying to make me look like a moron.”
He said the groups of young women were just a gathering after church.
“There’s nothing sexual or whatever the accusations might be. It’s just friendships. Just friends.”
Dennis Stanley said that the women were invited to stay at the house because, “I own the house and I let whoever I want stay there.”
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