Co-leader of Mont. religious sect That Threatened Obama accused of rape
Prediction: there will be wingnuts who try to turn this pervert who uses religion to twist children to his aims into a persecuted hero.
Charging documents allege Harman had sex with the teen in Utah and that she told investigators another church leader encouraged her to do so because Harman was God. The documents say the girl reported having sex with Harman one time because she believed she would be blessed.
Harman, along with Terrill Dalton, lead the Fromberg-based Church of the Firstborn of the General Assembly of Heaven.
An arrest warrant also has been issued for Dalton, the church’s president, and charges him with two felony counts of first degree rape. Charging documents say Dalton, who is in his 40s, had sex with the same girl as Harman after telling her “that if she had sex with him three times, (she) would be blessed.”
The church moved to Fromberg from Idaho in September after claiming persecution. Church members initially fled to Idaho after federal agents raided their headquarters in Magna, Utah, in May 2009 to investigate claims of sexual abuse and assassination threats against President Barack Obama, former President George W. Bush and the president of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Thomas S. Monson.