Pastor John Raymond Defends Taping Students’ Mouths Shut After Arrest
Even after he was arrested last week and charged with cruelty to juveniles for taping several students’ mouths shut, a Louisiana pastor who is the founder and headmaster of Lakeside Christian Academy released a statement on Monday defending his actions. John Raymond is also an elected member of the governing board of Louisiana’s Republican party and competed in the fifth season of the hit reality competition Survivor. He defended his actions by saying the seventh-grade students involved in the incident had been continuously bullying a certain teacher and she was “ready to terminate her employm...