Elder Daniel Young ~ The Resume You’ll Never Find
It has come to my attention that my ex step father Daniel C. Young Sr, better known as Elder Daniel Young of New Life Celebration Church of God is teaching workshops around the city of Chicago on teenage sexuality. Elder Daniel Young is also the leader of their Men’s of Valor Men’s Ministry. Daniel has been a part of the church for more than a decade now. Before that he served as a deacon, leader in worship, Sunday School teacher, member of the choir, and soul winner’s ministry at Truth Triumphant Ministries for almost a decade too. Elder Daniel Young has quite an impressive resume in his service to the church. Seems like those are great qualifiers for someone to instruct men on how to live lives of valor and to instruct children and teenagers on a healthy Christian sexuality.
What his resume and credentials do not say is that this same Elder Daniel Young is a child molester. A pedophile who committed incest with his adopted step daughter for seven years of her life beginning from when she was just seven years old. This was happening during the same time that he served as a deacon and leader at Truth Triumphant Ministries. I think they forgot to mention that in his introduction as he began to speak to other children about sexuality. Often those who attended Truth Triumphant Ministries during his time there have said, “I had no idea this was going on.” (That’s because pedophiles don’t announce their love of children’s bodies as they began the Sunday service prayer on the pulpit.)
You are not going to find this information out by looking it up on the sex offenders registry. That is because the police and some of those connected to Truth Triumphant Ministries and New Life Celebration Church of God did everything they could to hide and suppress this. Maybe if you dig deep enough you will find the battery charge from when he beat his then 14 year old daughter for threatening to tell the police about the sexual abuse. But you will find nothing about the 7 years of sexual assault even though his then daughter went to the police and filed charges.
I find it funny that the very churches who speak out against those with same sex orientation, enable, hide and give sanctuary to rapist, molesters and violent predators. Same sex orientation is not a sin depending on your religious inclinations. Touching your daughters vagina, licking her ass, fondling her breast, sticking your tongue down her throat and making her touch your penis, among other horrid details…not only is it a sin but it is a crime.
It is your duty as a parent to protect your children. It is your DUTY! You must know that just because someone has served in the church, that does not qualify them to speak in authority over your life or to instruct your kids on sexuality. While I can do nothing to prevent Daniel from raping your children, you can do everything to find out who is a part of your children’s life. Stop being complacent and blindly following leaders in communities, churches and organizations without knowing just who the hell you are talking too.
There are good pastors. There are amazing leaders. There are phenomenal churches. This is not to bash the church. But the predators are not lurking shadows in dark alleys. Some of the predators that are secretly raping your children are the worships leaders that you have known for years. You better do your homework parents. Because 80% of crimes go unreported and some of the criminals are your friends.
If you think your church is exempt from that… if you think it could never happen at your place of business…..if you think “not on my block, not in my house”…you are sadly mistaken. Sexual predators are no respector of persons. These predators are everywhere. And this is an epidemic happening everywhere. And sadly the Black Church, just like the Catholic church is hiding it, refusing to address it, and sometimes enabling it!
I am not telling you to be suspicious of every person you come into contact with. I’m just saying you need to take extra steps and find out what’s really going on. NOT one person in Elder Daniel Young’s life would ever guess that he loved to molest his daughter. There were no tell tell signs.
The photo above was taken by me when Elder Daniel Young followed me to Texas and even though I asked him to leave me alone, he continued to badger and harrass me.
If you haven’t guess by now, that daughter who Daniel use to love to sexual abuse and even physically assaulted, is me!
You better get deeply involved in your children’s lives, before someone gets deeply involved in their panties. This shit is no joke!
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Sheena, this is sad but an awesome expression! I am very proud of you and your state of healing, reclaiming and restoring. My prayer is that this message is not taken the wrong way; but realized that this is a tool of reaching out to all the girls, ladies and women who have (and still) experienced the same. My prayer also is that you continue to grow, heal, forgive, reclaim and restore yourself and others. Love you Lady!
Way to go Sheena….Awesome story..Thanks for exposing the devil…I WAS 6!
Thank you Denise! I welcome your feedback, commits and critiques and find you very encouraging!
Man! This is an epidemic and if I can prevent this from happening from one person or if I can help be a resource for healing and restoration, then that is a good thing. But its crazy how many people have been abused…mentally, sexually, physically, spiritually. Crazy!
Thanks for sharing your story, I will be emailing this story to my sisters and friends, even though I don’t have teenage daughters, I do have nieces and we all live in the Chicago area, so I do want to protect them from this pervert!!!
Thanks for being proactive TWH. At the end of each post there is a “Share This/Bookmark” button and if you click it, you can easily email this post or others to friends. We have to protect children and stop hiding and enabling these predators in the “name of God.”
I have yet to express my emotions during this journey on a public level, however, I am grateful that you have found your space in this tragedy. I am proud and amazed at your wisdom and tenacity. You hold the key to your power and the time is past due for the world to acknowledge the elephant! I am honored to call you my daughter. I love you!
Moooooommmmmmmyyyyyyyyy! I love you so much. You are such an amazing woman and are a huge inspiration to me. I am grateful that unlike many other mothers or family members, you believed me when all of this came out. You supported me and stayed with me even though it meant hardship and living in other people’s homes until we found our own…no matter what you have held all your children dear to your heart and taken care of us! I appreciate it. And as I’ve written many many times before, none of this was your fault! None of it! I hope that you do not feel guilty. I hope that you feel proud that when you had to act, you did and that has made all the difference.