It Gets Worse. ‘Conservative’ Pastor Jonathan Elwing Charged With Creating CSAM, Sexually Abusing Child
Last week, police arrested Jonathan Edward Elwing, senior pastor of Palm View Baptist Church, for possessing child pornography, but new information paints a far more disturbing picture.
Previously law enforcement received a tip that the pedophile pastor used cryptocurrency to buy child porn online. They acquired a warrant and executed it the very next day, seizing his devices and finding four images of child porn on his cell phone.
Things have changed. After seizing multiple electronic devices, including phones, tablets, and computers, a preliminary search has revealed even more images, including ones that shows him sexually abusing a child.
Elwing has now been charged with 14 felony counts related to sexual assault and child pornography, including two counts of capital sexual battery, six counts of production of child porn, and six counts of possessing child porn.
Prior to being arrested, Elwing, 43, resigned from Palm View church. A quick perusal of his social media accounts shows that his church was enrolled in Founders Ministries church search*, and Elwing would frequently share quotes from Voddie Baucham, Jonathan Edwards, Matt Chandler, and Mark Driscoll.
Elwing is married with four children, including one he recently adopted, and it appears he has absolutely destroyed their lives and turned them upside down. It is also unclear if one of the victims is his own child.
*Note: Founders Ministries explicitly says that it does not vet churches who voluntarily list themselves on the Founders church search.