Sutter Says:
That he was "called to the ministry in 1985" and that his
subsequent time in prison was for a contempt of court charge related to his
chaplaincy duties:
""I was jailed for contempt of court when a judge ordered me to reveal the contents of a religious counseling session I had with an inmate. There are two Ohio laws that protect these conversations, I showed both to the judge, plus I explained professional ethics, but he didnt care, so he found me guilty of contempt of court, and ordered me locked up until the trial was over."
The Truth:
As far as we know, Sutter's only incarceration was for a 1996
conviction that resulted from defrauding credit card companies (although we
admit to knowing very little about his early adult years, from 1976 to 1989).
There is no reason for him to have worked so hard to expunge a contempt of court
charge under the circumstances that he stated, so it is more probable that this
episode relates to the much darker
incident in his life that he mentioned on his own blog in October of 2007
involving improper conduct with a minor.
The good "Reverend" further attempted to defraud the IRS as well, since the agency placed a hefty tax lien against him about six years after his "call to the ministry." This was as a result of three separate years in which he underreported his taxes by about $6000.
In fact, Sutter is not a real
minister. He uses this phony title opportunistically to gain the trust of
others. It also adds false credibility to his writing ("Oh, he's a
Christian minister... He must be telling the truth."). It is clearly part
of his con game.
Aside from being a prodigious liar, Sutter has exhibited an extremely
mean-spirited streak against his critics that is in stark contrast to his cover
as a clergyman. He falsely accused one woman of being a psychiatric patient
and a sex junkie. To make his case that she had mental problems, he actually
used the tragic death of her own daughter against her. Later, he stooped
even lower by publicly
alleging that she had abused the child that she lost in an unrelated car
accident:
I've held back quite a bit in the report on you, such as what you did to your daughter, the rituals you and Poke engaged in, and what you're doing with newborns in NC. He really hates you now, he blames you for her death. (source)There is no merit whatsoever to this, of course. It's hard to fathom anyone saying this to someone else, least of all a self-proclaimed "Christian minister." Even worse is that Sutter tried to hurt this woman merely because she exposed the lies that he was telling about his military service.
Sutter also has a habit of accusing his female detractors of being "prostitutes." One such accusation was publicly made in April of 2007. The other was made against a different woman in September of 2007, whom Sutter thought to be a college student. Sutter wrote:
"LMAO! Hey, Ms. Ohio State, try learning how to spell. It might make your magazine ads get a pssing(sic) grade without... you know... having to use your special "technique" to persuade the instructor. (Don't your knees get tired from that?)"
Sutter's crude and baseless oral sex reference to a woman half his age may be completely at odds with his bogus claim of being a Christian pastor, but it is certainly in keeping with his character. He has admitted to visiting pornography websites (for research), and we suspect that he spends a good deal of time there.
The "good reverend" also likes to pretend that he has only the one son from his marriage to Nancy Marie Sutter, but he has others that he has since disowned. In 1976, according to Cuyahoga Civil Court records, he left a teenage girl to raise at least one of these children on her own.
Not that the coffin of Sutter's claim to being a Christian minister lacks for nails, but he provided yet another on 3/14/09 when he actually challenged a Muslim to "proclaim the Shahada" ("There is no god but Allah and Muhammad is his messenger"). This is the profession of faith in Islam and it is simply unthinkable that a true Christian minister would press another person into proclaiming the faith of a rival religion. (Of course, this was at the same time that Sutter was also making up a story that this same individual was under investigation by the IRS, which was patently false).
