Pastor With Deep Ties to Clintons ,Who Adopted Haitian Orphans, Arrested For Child Sex Crimes

According to reports, a US pastor with deep connections to the Clintons has been arrested for a slew of child sex crimes.

In January, child welfare officials in Florida confirmed that James Corrigan Clay molested the children he adopted in Haiti with his ex-partner, Shelley Jean.

His ex-wife, Shelley Clay, was in New York for a Clinton Global Initiative meeting recently.

Shelly and James C. Clay were deeply involved with the Clinton Global Initiative’s efforts to help families economically in Haiti and ran adoption programs. The link provided (HERE) from the Clinton Global Initiative’s Facebook page features Shelly Clay.

The Clintons, Oprah, Donna Karan, Chan Luu, Disney, Rainn Wilson, Olivia Wilde, Maria Bello, Petra Nemcova, Ben Stiller, and Kim Kardashian were among the prominent clientele of U.S. Pastor Corrigan Clay, 43, who adopted infants in Haiti.

Yahoo News reports: Clay sexually abused the unidentified child from January 2014 to December 2017, the indictment states. No further details are provided in the filing, except that the alleged victim was under 18.

Daily Beast reported: But Clay’s ex-wife, with whom he had two biological children in addition to the pair they adopted, told The Daily Beast on Friday that the illicit conduct involved one of their own kids.

Shelley Jean Clay, who split from Clay, then a decade ago and now operates a Haitian-focused crafts market in Florida, declined to provide further details about the allegations, emphasizing that she was not involved and had no idea what was happening,  Daily Beast reports.

“It was my child, but I don’t think I am at liberty to talk about it because the court case is in process,” she told The Daily Beast. “I’m not opposed to the truth coming out, but I don’t want to jeopardize the case.”

Clay operated his ministry, the Apparent Project, with a stated goal of “building future leaders in Haiti,” alongside a tattoo and body piercing parlor in Port-au-Prince. He parted ways with the organization in 2013, according to Shelley. Clay remains detained in a Pennsylvania lockup pending a court hearing on Mar. 15, according to Daily Mail