Oak Harbor, WA - Nathan Martinez, 21, seemed like a good guy to the church members at Living Faith Christian Center in Oak Harbor. He seemed like such a nice, Christian young man that many church members allowed him to babysit for their children. See where this is going? Yep. Thirty counts, kids.
The very freaked out parents of four children called police after hearing three of the child victims having a conversation about Nathan Martinez, asking each other what kind of “nasty things” Martinez did to them. The parents, all of whom had used Martinez as a sitter in their homes on occasion, are no doubt now suffering a crisis of faith, especially since there now appear to be at least ten or eleven victims and probably more.
I’m gonna preach to you now, Church of Morbid, and I want you to hear me, because what I’m gonna tell you is straight from the heart of your ImpQueen. Do not. And I mean do NOT, immediately trust your babies with a single man who volunteers to babysit them. I do not care if he is in your Sunday School class. I do not care if he is the nicest, sweetest young man you ever met. If he is volunteering to spend time alone with your children, you need to be cautious. You need to be careful.
Now, I’m not saying that every single man is a pedophile who wants to molest your kids. But I am saying that it’s kinda weird for a 21-year-old guy to want to hang out with the chirrens. Most 21 year old guys can be trusted to sit with their siblings once in awhile, or their cousins. They might even be all right with their friends’ kids. But they will not volunteer to do it on a regular basis. Why, church? Repeat it with me now: Single guys in their 20s who are normal are after four things: Sex With Adult Partners, Food, Partying, and Sleep. If you are faced with a young man who seems to deviate from the pursuit of two or more of those things, do not - I repeat once again, do NOT leave him alone with your little ones. He’s hiding something. Especially if he “needs the job”.
Martinez confessed to molesting three of the children during an interview with investigators. He said he “knew what he was doing was wrong”, so he always said he was sorry - afterwards. You get that? First he molested the kids, THEN he apologized.
His excuse? He says he was molested for over a decade himself, and that’s why he wasn’t able to Just Say No to Child Molesting. I call bullshit. He didn’t WANT to say no to child molesting, because if he did, he would have actively sought help and avoided situations that left him alone with children.
Martinez was arrested and charged with thirty sex crimes, including multiple counts of child rape and child molestation and is being held on $250,000 bail. More charges may be forthcoming.
Aelwynn is talking about this case in our forum.
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tray-bay-bay
Aug 14, 2008 at 11:36 am -Why do people think it’s automatically ok to leave your kids with someone just because they go to your church? I’m here to tell you all the churches I’ve been in were full of sinners! Don’t leave your kids with anyone you haven’t thoroughly checked out regardless of their religious claims.
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WryBread
Aug 14, 2008 at 11:45 am -Isn’t it sick that these deviants know so well how to wiggle themselves into situations that make them appear moral and trustworthy? Men who want to take care of kids in daycare — aw, isn’t that adorable? Men who want to babysit kid from church — obviously a really helpful, giving young man, perfect for my daughter except that my daughter is three years old. Ugh.
I think that weird facial hair thing he has going is a tip-off. I try to warn girls that a man who spends too much time sculpting his facial hair is not a good bet as a b.f.
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sugarglider
Aug 14, 2008 at 12:33 pm -Well, this was the Living Faith Church. I guess they just had faith that he was a perfectly well-adjusted dude. That’s what happens when you don’t search for evidence. Did the parents know anything about this guy? Did the church? And don’t people check in with their children about how things went with the babysitter? Was nothing noticeably awry?
Sometimes molesters do threaten their victims about telling others, but these children don’t seem to have been threatened like that, as they were clearly not afraid of freely discussing amongst themselves.. I’m not blaming the parents, exactly, I’m just saying it’s sad that these kids were too afraid to challenge their parents’, uh, “living faith” in this creep.
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prettyuglyish
Aug 14, 2008 at 12:33 pm -I won’t even let my male family members babysit my kids. (I don’t let teenagers, either.) Then again, half my family are drunks and the other half are Christians. All of them scare me.
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captainhowdy
Aug 14, 2008 at 12:39 pm -GROSS. Creepy eyes.
This is why I am afraid to leave my kids with ANYONE. Seriously. My husband and I have been out like 3 times since having children, and it’s always been with either a grandparent or a VERY well-trusted friend watching them. I am way too paranoid about babysitters and daycares. I don’t trust anyone. Too much DD, I guess!
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Stella
Aug 14, 2008 at 1:37 pm -Agree with Imp. I’ve always had a problem with boy babysitters. I was barely able to deal with the daycare (but no men and only a couple of college summer helpers).
If we couldn’t take the boys, then we didn’t go. Period. We had one trusted friend and once, and only ONCE, did my parents watch them. I’m just amazed at people (when I worked) had lists of babysitters and went out most every weekend. What about family????
So he says he was molested — no excuse. My husband’s mom was a drug addict/alcoholic. He’s neither and (unfortunately) lost all contact until shortly before she passed. She had not changed.
You’re so right. It’s just not normal for a kid (yes kid) this age to be hanging with kids, church or not. The parents were blinded by their faith.
At that age, our boys were not interested in younger kids; in fact, we had to tell them to be nice to the nieces and nephews (since they tended to show off for them). Younger ones look up to older ones, and well, this just shouldn’t happen.
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April
Aug 14, 2008 at 1:49 pm -I have a hard time leaving my child with a female that I barely know. Jesus! What do people think when they pawn their children off?? I know it may ruin a night of dinner and lust with the hubby. I know they are difficult to take shopping…. In the grand sceme of things - That seems a much less price to pay than living with the fact that you served your child up to a fucking pervert! Parent NEED to be careful about who they leave their damn kids with! GRRRRR!!!
Sorry for the rant!
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nadine
Aug 14, 2008 at 1:50 pm -CONGRATS TO IMPQUEEN you touched base on all of our thoughts and how direct your message is, and was and it is the TRUTH, you make wonderfully valid points, all women with children should read this and remember that anyone requesting to babysit, especially a man in his twenties when he should be going out with friends and doing normal young man things, not wanting tobabysit children, your a smart smart women! Kudos to you nice valid points
have a great day
Oh, this bastard should just be shot, i don’t even like tht looks of him at all, he looks scary as shit
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Kitty
Aug 14, 2008 at 2:54 pm -His picture just screams “I’m a fucking deviant!” I think I wanna puke now.
Honestly– you don’t just have to be careful of you leave your kids with — I have teen daughters that like to babysit to pick up extra cash, and there are only a select few I allow them to ’sit for, since I had a “friend (use the term loosely here) who would hire my oldest to watch her daughter for her, and THEN I discovered that she was bringing strange men home with her from the bar (did I mention her husband was in the sandbox for all this)..oh Hell no! Not with MY kid in the house.. from then on, for the safety of her own very young child and my own, her daughter came to our house for ’sittin. ARGH I hate people that waste skin.
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Peeperann
Aug 14, 2008 at 5:12 pm -I never let anyone but my mom and my sisters babysit, and my sisters damn well knew they weren’t leaving my kids with their husbands. If they had to go somewhere, my kids went to.
Aw, Pretty, i’m Christian, we’re not all bad!
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Deety
Aug 14, 2008 at 8:43 pm -Amen sister! Preach on, the choir will back you up!
Let’s face it, men who want to screw your children are not going to present themselves as shifty, untrustworthy people. They are going to seem like the nicest guys you could ever meet.
I would never ask a man to babysit for me, unless I had known him for more than a dozen years, and it was an extreme emergency. But I can’t imagine having an emergency where I couldn’t find any female friends to watch them.
Sorry guys, not saying all of you are pedophiles, but it’s safer to assume you are.
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WryBread
Aug 14, 2008 at 9:18 pm -My father married when he was 23. He ate and slept, yes, and worked every day to support my mother and little baby me.
Have we changed or was my father just a fool to give up his decade of meaningless fucking, partying, gorging, and snoring? Are we just big kids now until the grey hair shows? I find it kind of depressing that there’s a lot of truth in your statement, Imp, but I can’t say that you’re wrong. At least that’s the type of lifestyle young men are encouraged to pursue now, I guess.
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impqueen
Aug 14, 2008 at 9:29 pm -Talking Jesus married me when my elder spawn was less than a year old. I was twenty; he was 23. But he was not a single guy offering to babysit for other families with small children - he loved me and my (now our, since he adopted her later) spawn. By no means am I saying that all twentysomething men are incapable of caring for children. Men who are mature enough to marry are generally okay with kids.
I’m talking about the single, 20-something dude that hangs out with the kiddies when he could or should be at work, or out playing with people his own age, finding his own wife or partner, fathering his own child. The guys who offer to watch kids “because the Lord leads” or because “I just love kids”… those guys bear watching. Very, very closely.
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April
Aug 14, 2008 at 10:40 pm -Okay - So when I read the article earlier the pic didn’t load. So now I see homeboy’s pic and I have to say that I wouldn’t let the wierd looking, rat faced perv babysit my fucking DOG! UGH!
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Aelwynn
Aug 19, 2008 at 7:55 am -Just the number of charges he has brought against him alone…was enough for me to post the thread. However, it’s more sickening to me that some parents trust complete strangers just because they are in their church.
I’m sorry, I’m all for a babysitter once in a while…but when it comes to MEN babysitting my daughters, the answer is always NO! I don’t care if you are my daughter’s favorite uncle - NO! I don’t care if you know my mother’s sister’s brother via church - NO!
Yes, call me sexist or whatever you will. But my daughters are to be babysat by my immediate family only, and mostly by females. However, if it keeps them safe - it keeps them safe.
To use a church as a way to abuse children is even more deplorable. To sit there and act like he’s sorry afterwards…that’s even worse. He assaulted and molested over 14 children and NOW he’s sorry?! Fuck! You’re only sorry you got caught!
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Rory28
Oct 6, 2008 at 5:28 am -I whole heartedly cringe in disgust over the whole “boy baby sitter fear” aspect of your write up…From your site alone,its VERY obvious that women are JUST as fucked up and crazie when it comes to people who mess with children,violently,or sexually…The ONLY REASON these people allowed ANYONE to babysit for them was simply due to the fact “they went to church”,welll shit!,thats some good thurough parenting skills right there! …Anyhow,onto my own point,and reasoning for my disgust would be……As a man now(*Boy* at the time,18),having a friend who was in great need of help when it came to childcare,because she had one baby,and was having a second baby.My friend was a small girl,so she needed to have c-sections for both babies,and needed to be looked after closely when it came closer to the time…COUNTLESS times i took care of her baby while she was at the doctors,or feeling ill,ect ect ect…I NEVER took money for doing this,i did it because i am A NORMAL HUMAN BEING who LIKES KIDS… …I mean,come on,you always wanna poke at how devolved so many people are,and what negative stereotypes people choose to live out…NOW your gunna come and say that there “must be something wrong” if a guy has any interest in possibly,learning how to take care of kids?… Maybe,just MAYBE if there was in fact MORE young guys baby sitting,there just might be a reduction in dead beat dads not knowing a SINGLE THING about kids,until it is TO LATE and they have there OWN…I mean,is this NOT why they encourage girls to babysit?… Sexist double standards are NEVER going to stop pseudo-christian pedophiles… …And i suppose an openly gay boy baby sitting
another boy is TOTALLY out of the question now is it?(he must be a pedophile)…Wait a second,i sound as if i am speaking first hand 30-50yrs ago!,LOL… Heterosexual girls would NEVER have interest in your little boys now,would they?…HEAVENS NOOO…LOL
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Rory28
Oct 6, 2008 at 5:33 am -…Next time my friend reminds me of the nice thing i did for her,and how she could not have done it without me…I will be sure to tell her what a horrible mother she is for EVER trusting me to take care of her LITTLE GIRLS,not because im a loved one,but…because i am a guy!?…And all remind her to NEVER leave them with there father,EVER AGAIN!…LOL…
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Rory28
Oct 6, 2008 at 5:37 am -Should i now also hold all mothers suspect of wanting to put there son’s penis in there mouth due to that crazie assed women on this site a few pages back?!…
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