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Preacher Caught In Sexually Explicit Chatrooms
Reported by: Brian Collister
Email: BrianCollister{at}woai.com
Last Update: 9/28 6:04 am

Preacher Caught In Explicit Chat Rooms

Reverend Stringfellow appears on his webcam (Steve Kline, Clear Channel 2007)

He is the leader of a local church who is living a double life. This man of
God is surfing adult chat rooms on the internet where people live out their
sexual fantasies. First, we want to warn you this story deals with sexually
explicit matter and may not be suitable for your kids.

It's a place in cyberspace where men are the master and women are their
submissive sex slaves.

Chat rooms filled with explicit sexual conversations involving bondage and torture.

A woman we'll call "Annie", but who asked us not to show her
face, said she frequents these chat rooms.

Over the past year she's been having online chats with a man who uses the
screen name "Diablos4u2."

Annie gave us what she said are the chat logs of their conversations. In
them, he describes what he wants to do to her in very graphic detail.

She described for us what was in those chats, "Just extreme deviant
sexual acts. Drag me around by my hair. Forced oral gratification. Forced
sexual servitude."

In the chats, he called her a slut and even said she needed a spanking. The
rest was too graphic to show you.

When she asked who he was, he replied, "I am a public speaker in San
Antonio. Discretion is a must for me...I am respected in this community for
the facade I present. It has to be maintained."

Later he gave her the name Corin Miller, said that he is married with two
children. He bragged of having extramarital affairs with women he's met in
these chat rooms.

They also spoke on the phone and talked using web cameras, but Annie got
suspicious and did some research to find out who Corin Miller really was.

Starting out with his fake name and cell phone number, her research
eventually led her to a church website and to the church's preacher,
Reverend Ron Stringfellow.

"I kept thinking I was wrong. The very first thing I thought was, 'No
way. That couldn't possibly be him,'" Annie told us.

Stringfellow is the leader of the congregation here at the Medina Valley
Assembly of God Church just outside Castroville.

Annie said Reverend Stringfellow admitted his true identity when she
confronted him during their online chat.

We wanted to confirm it was him for ourselves.

During our interview with Annie, "Diablos4u2" was online. So, we
asked her to instant message him. As they talked, he turned on his web
camera. It was Reverend Stringfellow.

One day before bible study, I caught up with him to ask him about his
online escapades.

I told him, "We'd like to ask you about these sexually explicit chats
you've been having on the internet under the Diablos4u2 name."

The Reverend told me, "I don't know anything about what you're talking
about."

Since he claimed not to know what I'm talking about, I showed him a picture
from his webcam to see if that helped.

He still did not respond, but instead walked inside his church.

We don't know how his congregation feels. Stringfellow later had us told to
stay off his church property.

So, why did she reveal the reverends secret to us? For Annie, she hopes the
Reverend will now pray on what he has done and do the right thing.

"If he wants to be a playboy, then be a playboy. If he wants to be a
preacher then be a preacher, but you can't be a preacher and a
playboy."

We have received word that Ron Stringfellow is no longer a preacher. In a
phone call just before our story was set to air, Stringfellow told me he
has resigned from the church.

He warned chat logs can be altered and denied the more explicit comments
quoted in our story, but he admitted to saying things in his online chats
that were inappropriate for a preacher.



... If we accept a god at all let us accept an honest one.
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