Texas Couple Allowed 68-Year-Old Preacher To Live With Them And Rape Their 12-Year-Old Daughter, Incest Also Alleged Between Girl And Her Brother

SMH at the things people do in the name of religion… such as, let their 68-year-old pervert teacher move into the crib and rape their kids… and encourage incest between their own son and daughter…

Read the details below:

A couple have been accused of allowing their 12-year-old daughter to be raped by a veteran preacher they invited into their home.

They are also alleged to have allowed an incestuous relationship between two of their children in what authorities have called a ‘tragic abuse of children’.

Investigators believe Jerry and Christina Ham’s religious beliefs may have played a part in allowing the alleged sexual abuse.

Jerry and Christina Ham of Texas were arrested and charged with aggravated sexual assault of a child and engaging in organized criminal activity after allegedly allowing a preacher to rape their daughter, 12

They were arrested following a six month investigation after preacher Larry Gene Martin was held on rape charges.

The 68-year-old is accused of raping the Hams’ 12-year-old after moving into their home in Palestine, Texas.

After his arrest he told investigators he was in love with the girl and wanted to marry her.

Shocked police believe further allegations of abuse involving the family’s two other children, boys aged eight and 12, will be uncovered.

Investigators believe the parents may have also allowed their oldest boy, now 12, to participate in sexual acts with his sister.

‘It is a very sick, twisted thing,’ said Anderson County Sheriff Greg Taylor.

‘We believe there are some religious connotations. We really don’t know for sure.

‘There’s some strange beliefs in the family, to put it mildly.

‘There was certainly a permittance of this type of activity that’s not normal.’ The abuse came to light following the arrest of Martin, a preacher for the last 50 years.

Martin was pastor at Faith Bible Church in the Brushy Creek area where the Hams all attended at the time.

Sheriff Taylor said he believes the Hams not only had knowledge of the sexual assault of their daughter, but also consented to it at some level.

‘She (the couple’s daughter) was a victim of Martin,’ Taylor said. ‘We believe they (the Hams) had knowledge of that and other sexual assaults against this child without reporting it…We’re not alleging at this time they participated in any sexual assault against this child.’

The sheriff also said investigators believe the Hams provided ‘some type of consent to some of these activities.’ Taylor said the couple has admitted to some of the accusations.

‘They have confessed to some of the allegations, to the knowledge of and consent of some of the allegations,’ Taylor said.

‘They’re semi-cooperative.’

Jerry Ham, 56, was charged with the felony offense of engaging in organized criminal activity and aggravated sexual assault of a child.

His 36-year-old wife faced the same charges.

Those poor kids! We pray they manage to recover from the trauma they experienced in their sick and twisted home.

Y’all know that preacher got himself a seat reserved on that express train to hell right? And the parents are even worse… you’re supposed to protect your kids — not pimp them!

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