Gabriel Mills (41) was terminated from his position as Guest Experience Pastor of Journey Church in Kenosha, Wisconsin, and arrested after he was accused of sending photos of a woman to himself without her consent from her husband’s phone. The victim and her family are members at the church.
The incident allegedly occurred during a life group meeting at Mills’ home. Mills asked to use the phone belonging to the victim’s husband during the meeting in order to download an audiobook application Mills wanted to share with the husband. The husband is an employee of the Racine Police Department.
According to the criminal complaint filed on Oct. 2, Mills searched for intimate photos of the church member’s wife on the phone and sent them to himself via AirDrop.
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The victim stated that, after life group was over, she discovered Mills had sent himself the photos. She saw Mills holding his phone in a way that he didn’t want others to see it. After talking to Mills, the woman stated that “he lowered his hand and phone to his side and [she] could see displayed on the phone a picture of [herself] in thong style underwear where she was bent over at the waist posed for the camera.”
The victim recognized the photo as one she had sent to her husband.
The victim then “stated that she became furious as to how that private photo ended up on the [pastor’s] phone, and [she] was concerned what else [Mills] might have on his phone of her as she had sent other photos to her husband on previous occasions.”
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The woman then said that she “tapped on [Mills’] phone which relit up the picture of her in the thong underwear and the [pastor] looked down at his phone and saw what [she] could see.” The victim stated that Mills “turned ‘white as a ghost’ and began to tremble and apologize to her repeatedly.”
Mills then reportedly became frantic and pleaded with the woman not to tell his wife. He even tried to block her exit to one of the stairways in his house and told her that the image was of his wife, not her.