Tennessee pastor Benjamin Garlick gets life without parole for child rape
A Rutherford County jury convicted traveling evangelist Benjamin Garlick on multiple child sex abuse charges; his wife Shaantal Garlick was found guilty of facilitating the abuse.
What to know
- Benjamin Garlick, 35, a traveling pastor who ran evangelical work across multiple states, was convicted in Rutherford County, Tennessee on seven counts of aggravated rape of a child, six counts of aggravated sexual battery, and one count of solicitation of sexual exploitation of a minor.
- He was sentenced to life without parole.
- His wife, Shaantal Garlick, was separately convicted of facilitating the aggravated rape of a child and neglect.
- Coverage frames the case as exposing a darker reality behind a ministry that had traveled nationwide spreading the Gospel.
Benjamin Garlick Traveling pastor, convicted defendantShaantal Garlick Wife of Benjamin Garlick, co-defendant
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Tennessee Pastor Convicted of Child Rape, Wife Guilty of Facilitating Abuse A 35-year-old Tennessee pastor who conducted evangelical work across multiple states has been sentenced to life without parole after a jury found him guilty of sexually abusing a child. Benjamin Garlick was convicted Monday in Rutherford County Circuit Court on seven…