Dit is een blog entry om duidelijk te maken dat het geen grap is dat de Church of Satan geen criminele activiteit tolereert, en informatie over misdadigers, of potentiële misdadigers overdraagt aan de politie.

Een jongeman van 18, die naar Hogepriester Peter Gilmore mailde dat hij zijn grootouders wilde doden “in naam van onze onheilige heer Satan”, werd gearresteerd nadat Magus Gilmore de e-mail in kwestie overmaakte aan de FBI.

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Bron: http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,316967,00.html

Teen Held After E-Mailing Satanic Group Threat to Kill Grandparents
Saturday, December 15, 2007

CORTLAND, Ohio — A teenager was arrested after a leader of the Church of Satan turned over to the FBI an e-mail the high school student had written to the sect in which he threatened to kill his grandparents, authorities said.
Andrew Culver, 18, told police the e-mail detailing his intention to kill his grandparents and steal their money and car was a joke, said Bazetta Township police Chief Charles Sayers.

According to police, Culver wrote he had access to an arsenal of weapons and wanted to “kill in the name of our unholy lord Satan.”

Culver sent the message Wednesday to Peter Gilmore, the high priest of the New York City-based Church of Satan, Sayers said. Gilmore alerted the FBI, which notified local police. Culver was taken out of class Thursday and questioned by police, Sayers said.

“To send an e-mail making specific threats, to sign your name, that to me is not a joke,” Sayers said.

Messages seeking comment were left at the home where Culver lives with his grandparents and with the Trumbull County Juvenile Detention Center, where Culver is being held.

Charges will be discussed at a scheduled hearing on Monday, Sayers said.

Gilmore said his church discards most of the hundreds of e-mails it receives daily. But Culver’s message stood out, he said.

“I thought it could be a joke, but with recent events in Colorado and Nebraska, I thought it was better to play it safe,” he said, referring to mass shootings in an Omaha mall, a missionary school near Denver and a Colorado Springs church that killed a total of 13 people, including the gunmen.

Gilmore said members of his group are atheists who believe Satan is a symbol of freedom, not evil. “To the Satanist, he is his own God,” reads a statement on the group’s Web site from Gilmore.

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Bron: http://www.wkbn.com/news/local/12515741.html

Student Arrested

by Peggy Sinkovich

Was Andrew Culver’s email to The Church of Satan truly a threat? Or a call for help, or a prank? That’s exactly what Cortland and Bazetta police are trying to determine tonight. .

The one paragraph email, police say Culver sent from his home computer on December 12th states he wants out of the “Christian world” and needs to kill. He also went on to say he will kill his grandparents and wants the church to employee him as an unholy warrior.

The email immediately caught the attention of Peter Gilmore of the Church of Satan. Gilmore says his church is a religion of anti-Christian atheists who do not actually believe in God, Satan, or an afterlife and do not condone violence.

Gilmore says the recent acts of violence among teens has been increasing and he didn’t want more to take place so as soon as he read the email he turned it over to the FBI.

The FBI then contacted the local police.

Cortland Police Chief Gary Mink and Bazetta Chief Chuck Sayers say they became concerned due to last week’s church shootings in Colorado and the words Culver used in the computer message.

Police said other concerns were the fact that Culver, enrolled early in the Army and has already completed basic training. Culver also put in his email that his grandfather is a retired police officer and that he has access to guns.

Andrew’s grandfather says his grandson has lived with him for two years and he doesn’t believe the boy is a threat. He thinks the email was just a hoax.

Police say when they arrested Culver, he told them the email was a joke but would not answer any other questions.

Culver turned 18 today.