Disgraced Florida pastor allegedly had sex with young teen 3 times and failed to mention he was HIV positive
He’s the devil in disguise.An HIV-infected Florida pastor allegedly lured a teen into bed on multiple times — while hiding that he had the potentially deadly virus, according to authorities.Timothy Chaneyfield, 42, apparently came clean after grooming and sexually abusing the 14-year-old on three different occasions at his Eagle Creek home, Polk County Sheriff Grady Judd said at a press conference on Tuesday, before warning that there may be other victims.The twisted man of the cloth — a pastor at the St.
James United American Free Will Baptist Church and a hospice chaplain — is also HIV positive and kept it a secret from the boy before they had sex, Judd told reporters.The sicko lured the teen in on a dating app — before he moved to direct messaging him on Instagram.Chaneyfield — who also previously worked at Crystal Lake Middle School — then picked up the boy in his neighborhood and brought him back to his house where the two had sex.“On those three different occasions, he wasn’t preaching, but he was messing around,” Judd told reporters.
“He groomed a child online, drove to the child’s neighborhood, picked him up, took him to his home, had sex with him.”The sheriff’s office began probing the disgraced preacher after receiving a cyber tip from Instagram about alleged inappropriate activity with a minor.Investigators have also spoken to a 26-year-old, who said he has tested positive for HIV after hooking up with the “super spreader” pastor.The 14-year-old boy has since received a cocktail of drugs aimed at preventing him from contracting HIV — the sexually transmitted disease which can cause AIDs, and can be deadly, if left untreated.“We pray that our work was fast enough, because we got our victim the HIV cocktail that we stopped this child from becoming infected.But we have a 26-year-old that said he engaged Timothy Chaneyfield in sex, and now he is HIV positive,” Judd said.“Jesus doesn’t like that, and he’ll have ...