What You Should Know About Engagement Ring Etiquette

What You Should Know About Engagement Ring Etiquette

Getting engaged is one of the most exciting events in a lifetime. It’s a moment you share with your loved one before getting into marriage. And the fun in it is when you receive an engagement ring. Also, it’s a sensitive time with mixed reactions and expectations, so ensure you get the ring your partner will love as much as possible. Here’re several aspects of etiquette that focus on the…

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Washington, D.C., cop and preacher charged with sexual abuse of a 16-year-old girl: cops

A Washington, D.C., cop and preacher has been locked up, charged with sexually abusing a teenage girl from his church.

The Metropolitan Police Department arrested Darrell Best, 45, on Monday night, two days after a 16-year-old congregant of God Of A Second Chance Ministry came forward as an alleged victim, police announced late Monday.

“She felt intimidated to the point that she couldn’t resist,” the girl’s father, who did not want to be identified, told WTTG-TV, the first to report the allegations.

Another church member, who is now 18, said that Best groomed her, offering to help her begin a career in law enforcement, then taking her to dinner in December 2014 and, later that night, to D.C. police headquarters, where she alleged he forced her to perform sexual acts, WTTG reported.

“I told him ‘No’ on multiple occasions, plenty of times,“ the woman told the TV station. “And he was armed and I didn’t know what he could’ve had up his sleeve.”

Best, a 25-year veteran of the force and the pastor of the Southern Ave. SE church, has been placed on administrative leave, The Washington Post reported.

Authorities collared Best in Largo, Md., and he’s currently in jail at the D.C. Department of Corrections, department officials said.

Darrell Best of God of Second Chance Ministries accused of raping 16 and 18 year-old girls in Washington DC in December 2014.

Best noted the charges “are only allegations and when or if there is an appropriate time, I will comment further,” he said in a statement sent to WTTG. The station also quoted Best’s mother as saying that her son resigned his position at the church.

My parents are so unfestive. Not to say that its a bad thing, but growing up and coming back from the breaks, I was so jealous to hear all the amazing stories for the things people would do with their families during Thanksgiving/Christmas time that I would resent them. But now looking back, it sucked but I also came to appreciate the things I have and not so much have this tangible concept of having things just for the sake of it.

And with that, I take on my own experiences and put more money doing that. That’s how I feel its supposed to be done.

But this Thanksgiving, my family invited over a pastor (who they met through our church) in which I have never met in my life. I am so MIA from home that I always come home surprised to the new things that they do. But to make matters short, he’s a priest but he’s Nigerian (just like ourselves) and they invited him over for dinner. He was so humbled by it for he has only been in the US for like 5 years now and he has never had a real Thanksgiving Dinner. So it was nice for him to come over and eat a mix of both Nigerian and American dishes along with share us stories about Nigeria in the current day and a lot of the things he experienced as a priest in both Nigeria and America. From arm robbers to drama in the church, the stories were interesting, different and never ending. We laughed and chatted for around 5 hours (because Africans love to talk) and it was time to go. Honestly it was a great time.

And what made it quite different this year compared to last year was that I didn’t have to cook! Took that Megabus home on Thanksgiving for them tickets were mad expensive. Whose paying $80 one way when I could pay $25 to come home the day of and not have to worry about cooking too?! ME.