PREYING WHILE PRAYING

AT PAT ROBERTSON'S UNIVERSITY!




Former Regent assistant dean, wife guilty of child sex abuse by Shawn Day

VIRGINIA BEACH

Stephen McPherson and his wife, Melina, doted on the three teenage sisters at Hope Haven Children's Home.

The couple, house parents at the Christian-based community in Virginia Beach during the late 1990s, treated the girls to dinner and movies. They gave gifts, allowed the girls to stay up later than other children and took them along on vacation.

They also preyed on them.

Court records show the McPhersons manipulated the teens into submitting to fondling, kissing and other sex acts. They cited Bible verses that they said justified the abuse and, afterward, would pray together for God's forgiveness.

NORE: HAMPTONROADS