Deceased/Not Found CO - Aarone Thompson, 4, Aurora, 2003 *A. Thompson guilty*

[BarnGoddess]

http://www.rockymountainnews.com/drmn/local/article/0,1299,DRMN_15_5323360,00.html

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The Web site for American Church United touts $100,000 life insurance policies for church members up to age 71. Eighty percent is "for the family." The "local church" and American Church United each receives 10 percent. Elsewhere on the Web site, a life insurance payout plan mentions "5 percent for the Pastor's retirement 403(k) plan."

I read this the other day. Sorry, I should have caught it and posted right away. What does the above say to you? Mmmm?

Supposedly these policies pay 80% to the families and 10% each to the church and it's headquarters.

Seems as if the Reverend did a little more than "witnessing" her signature. That stuck out a mile, IMO

Something is very, very fishy with this Reverend.

 

[Bobbisangel]

I've never in my life heard of such a thing. If a person wants to take out a life insurance policy why not do it yourself and leave it to your husband, wife, kids, etc. Why does it have to be put in the churches name and the church control how it is handed out? I don't think that is right and there sure isn't anything in the bible that says we should do that. For the pastor's retirement....what the heck! Who even knows if the family ends up with 80% of the money. I don't think that the church should be handling anything financial for any family. Doesn't sound right to me anyway.

 

[BarnGoddess]

Mmmm, maybe it's that thing about tithing 10%. Isn't that what the bible asks us to do? I guess they upped the amount to 20%. That's 10% to the church and 10% to the organization. Where the extra 5% the preacher gets for his retirement fund is a mystery.

 

[Bobbisangel]

Mmmm, maybe it's that thing about tithing 10%. Isn't that what the bible asks us to do? I guess they upped the amount to 20%. That's 10% to the church and 10% to the organization. Where the extra 5% the preacher gets for his retirement fund is a mystery.

All the bible says is that we should tithe 10% of our income. It doesn't even say that we have to tithe it to the church. You can tithe to a someone in need or to an organization such as Battered Women or whoever you want that is in need of something. I've done both and felt blessed. I think that church should be looked at. I guess they aren't doing anything illegal as long as the people are going along with that but to me it is so crooked. I wonder what they tell those people to get them to do that. Shame on that pastor.

 

[Rle7]

Phillips promised parishioners that Lowe and Thompson's other children would be taken care of and that scholarships would be provided for them.

http://www.rockymountainnews.com/drmn/local/article/0,1299,DRMN_15_5329209,00.html

I hope Bishop Phillips keeps his promises. He should have done that to begin with. Better late than never, I guess.

 

[Bobbisangel]

Phillips promised parishioners that Lowe and Thompson's other children would be taken care of and that scholarships would be provided for them.

http://www.rockymountainnews.com/drmn/local/article/0,1299,DRMN_15_5329209,00.html

I hope Bishop Phillips keeps his promises. He should have done that to begin with. Better late than never, I guess.

I hope that there is someone that keeps track of the monies these people have signed over to the church/pastor. This makes no sense to me at all. I would love to know what spiel this pastor gives his congregation to get them to buy life insurance policies and put them in his/churchs name.

 

[Rle7]

7NEWS Investigators have confirmed that Shely Lowe, a person of interest in the Aarone Thompson case, can be heard mentioning that the 6-year-old girl is dead in taped conversations. Those tapes are in the possession of Aurora Police detectives who believe the voice on the tape belongs to Shely Lowe. Aurora police played the recordings to family members…


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…In an exclusive 7NEWS interview, Lowe said she had nothing to do with Aarone's disappearance, and she maintained her innocence up to her death in May 2006. But, in recorded conversations with a friend, Lowe refers to the girl in the past tense, and a friend asks if Lowe is going to put flowers on the child's grave, 7NEWS Investigators reported.



http://www.thedenverchannel.com/news/11138781/detail.html

I'm surprised she wasn't arrested right away after she said that. She's paying for it now in the depths of hell :furious:

 

[dottierainbow]

What ever happened to Aaronne's siblings? Are they with the father, state custody, or family members?

 

[meggilyweggily]

I believe the other Thompson are in foster care, but their mother may have regained custody of them by now. Aarone's dad basically kidnapped his kids -- he moved away with them while Mom was in the hospital and wouldn't tell her where to.

 

[BarnGoddess]

Just found this on Channel 9 news.

http://www.9news.com/news/article.aspx?storyid=65593

 

[Kymistry35]

From the article:

“Aurora investigators, detectives, they came over and they played a couple of recordings,” said Ebony Williams, Lowe’s cousin on her mother’s side.

She told 9Wants to Know that Lowe also said to her friend in the recordings, “I’m not going to tell you where she is, but I’ll give him (Aaron) some flowers and he can go where his little girl is and he can put flowers where she is.”

I am glad that #^$#^# dropped dead. I only wish the father would tell everyone where she is!

 

[Bobbisangel]

I wonder why the Grand Jury needed an extra 6 months to hear this case if they have this kind of evidence.

If that bible means anything but something to pack to church Thompson would march his rear down to the police station and turn himself in. I think he is milking the church for whatever he can get from them. And they don't see beyond their noses.

 

[Rle7]

The Colorado Court of Appeals has upheld a civil court jury's finding that the father of a 6-year-old Aurora girl reported missing in November of 2005 was responsible for her death.

The court, in an unpublished Feb. 8 decision, said there was sufficient evidence to support the finding of the jury that Aaron Thompson "was responsible for serious bodily injury or the death" of his daughter, Aarone.

The jury ruled in April of last year in a dependency and neglect case brought against Thompson by social service services which resulted in seven children being taken from his Aurora home. Thompson appealed the ruling.

David Lane, one of Thompson's lawyers, said the civil finding would be irrelevant in a criminal case because of the lower standards of proof. Lane, reached by telephone Thursday night, compared it to the O.J. Simpson case, in which the former football player was found liable in a civil court but acquitted of murder charges.

"What a jury does in a dependency and neglect case has absolutely no carry-over effect to what a jury will do in a criminal case," Lane said. "The criminal jury, if there ever is one, would never know there was a dependency and neglect jury."

http://www.thedenverchannel.com/news/11152238/detail.html

 

[Bobbisangel]

I think the Grand Jury will find him responsible for her death. He'll go to trial eventually.

 

[mysteriew]

I was just thinking of Aaronne the other day. I do wish there would be movement on the case, and that she would be found.

 

[mysteriew]

It seems that Pastor Phillips has been busy.

The Jefferson County district attorney's office is checking out an Aurora woman's claim that her ex-husband and embattled pastor Acen Phillips convinced her to take out a $100,000 loan as collateral for an out-of-state business venture, but instead set up an account without her knowledge and spent the money themselves.

Now, six years later, Michele Wheeler said she faces losing her house to foreclosure because she is being held responsible for payments she can't afford.

"Once people find out they've been had by Rev. Phillips, they go underground because they're embarrassed and ashamed, like I am," Wheeler said. "He is very persuasive. He can talk a drowning man into a bottle of water."

http://www.denverpost.com/headlines/ci_5410192

 

[Bobbisangel]

I hope the DA does a through investigation on this pastor and his church. It seems like he is taking quite a few in his congregation for a ride. I'm glad that this lady had the courage to come forward. There are crooked pastors too as we all probably know. Hope the law puts an end to this smooth talking pastor.

 

[Rle7]

Aarone Thompson died suddenly after she stopped breathing in a bathtub, but the death was covered up because the child was sexually abused by a sibling and had a bad scar from being disciplined, according to an account by a jail inmate.

Shely Lowe and her boyfriend, Aaron Thompson, buried Aarone in a field out of fear that authorities would take their other seven children away, he said. Eric Williams broke a long silence this week to share what he says a haunted Lowe told him about Aarone's last hours.

http://www.rockymountainnews.com/drmn/local/article/0,1299,DRMN_15_5434755,00.html

 

[meggilyweggily]

Healthy little girls do not suddenly stop breathing for no reason. I think if Aarone really did stop breathing in the bath, someone caused this to happen. I also think she probably did NOT simply slip away in the bath.

 

[SewingDeb]

Healthy little girls do not suddenly stop breathing for no reason. I think if Aarone really did stop breathing in the bath, someone caused this to happen. I also think she probably did NOT simply slip away in the bath.

You're right about that. Someone knows what happened to her.