Is the issue that this guy fondled a minor (?) or that he was given some award (?) or the combination of the two???
From 03/09/2016 is this:
Sevearance-Turner was arrested in 1998, when he was 20, and charged in Cherokee County, S.C., with a “lewd act, committing or attempting a lewd act upon a child under 16.”
A 2000 story in the Spartanburg Herald-Journal said Sevearance-Turner had been a youth minister at a church in Gaffney. A jury there found him guilty of fondling a 15-year-old teenage church member while the boy slept. He said his conviction had not stopped him from achieving success, such as being chamber president.
Then from 03/08/2016:
Severance-Turner was sentenced to 10 years in prison, and he served two years before being released on parole. He has had no further violations since.
Last year, he was named
qnotes’ 2015 Person of the Year for his work leading the CLGBTCC. The reporter who wrote the story was not aware of his sex offender status.
He also drew honors from the Human Rights Campaign (HRC), which named the CLGBTCC this year’s N.C. Organization of the Year. Sevearance-Turner accepted the award on the chamber’s behalf at last month’s HRC NC Gala. HRC leaders declined to say whether they were aware of Sevearance-Turner’s past conviction.
The president of Charlotte’s LGBT Chamber of Commerce (CLGBTCC) quietly resigned on Feb. 22 following attacks from a conservative group that revealed his status as a convicted sex offender.
qnotescarolinas.com
Then here is this guys Linked-In Page:
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Not sure if any of the above are reputable non-right-winger non-mis/dis info news or whatever sites, & it’s disjointed, & I’m not sure if the bases are or aren’t covered but supper smells amazing & I gotta go.