Baker, who also ran for Maury County mayor in 2022, was arrested and charged with aggravated sexual battery of a child younger than 12 on Tuesday, September 11th, with his bond set at $200,000. The court date was set for October 9th.
According to police documents, the crime occurred between December 9th, 2013 and December 9th, 2015. Allegedly he was molesting his own child relative.
He was bailed out the next morning, where sources later say he entered the ER bathrooms at Maury Regional Medical Center and shot himself twice in the chest. Staff attempted to save his life but there was little that could be done.
Columbia Police Chief Jeremy Alsup later explained Baker “walked into the ER at Maury Regional Medical Center, went straight to the bathroom and was soon found deceased in the bathroom.”
Baker, founder and vice president of Independent Baptist Online Bible College, a ministry of Family Baptist Church, has led a life coaching business and is the author of a few books. The Daily Herald also noted that Baker ran a ministry called Fallen in Grace, with Indiana pastor David Hyles. Hyles has faced much controversy, including allegations of rape, according to multiple media reports by the Fort-Worth Star Telegram, though he was not charged. Baker previously served as chaplain of the Maury County Jail for 28 years.’
He is survived by his wife and 11 children.
Describing his restoration ministry, Baker said, “If a preacher or Christian falls, we should pick them up. So many times, people kick them when they are down.”
The online school, headed by Bob Gray Sr., has since scrubbed Baker’s bio. An archived page says, “Having enough with all the world has to offer, Pastor Baker turned back to God and surrendered to preach. Having attended Hyles-Anderson college, David has pastored for over 18 years.”
Church Leaders adds he was ‘originally from New Mexico, had planned to become a lawyer. But after receiving a DUI and spending a night in jail more than three decades ago, he decided to become a pastor.’
Baker also ran YouTube channel and post called The Fundamental Baptist Podcast.
Church members are now sharing their anger. Aimee Spires told Fox 17: “There was nothing Godly about him,” Spires said of Baker when he preached at Lighthouse Baptist Church (which filed for bankruptcy in 2011). He was, he is a wolf in sheep’s clothing. I was angry because all the victims that there is, there’s no telling how many victims, how many girl victims that are out there that he may have done this to.” “He’s a coward,” Spires added.
In 2022, Colombia Daily Herald provided more details surrounding Spires and her affiliation with Baker. The paper wrote that the time:
Aimee Spires, 32, says when she attended Lighthouse Church, Baker did not support her when she was sexually violated as a child by a church member, James Earl Lovett.
Lovett was charged, pled guilty, and was convicted in 2004 of sexual battery and aggravated sexual battery, a Class E Felony against Spires who was then 13 years old. He is on the Tennessee child sex offender registry as of 2021.
Spires said Lovett began making sexual advances by touching her breasts and backside, which progressed Spires said when she started babysitting at the Lovetts’ home when she was 11 years old.
Spires said she was confronted about the allegations at the time by Baker.
“One day, David pulled me into his office. I was about 11 or 12 years old, and my mother was not with me at the time. He said we need to talk about these allegations,” Spires said.
Spires said she told him the allegations were true.
“He looked at me and said he has a family. He told me not to go to the authorities. He told me if that happens, it can destroy a family. He said God would not want you to destroy a family.”
Spires said.
Baker said he cooperated with the authorities at the time, not dissuading Spires from reporting the incident.
“Absolutely not,” Baker said. “I have turned in probably more people with my job in what I do to the authorities than just about anyone.”
“The allegation came that Mr. Lovett touched her outside of her clothes, and I asked him what happened and he verified exactly what she told me. When I asked her what she wanted me to do, she said nothing, just have him not come around me. At the time, I did not think that was something that needed to be reported because the allegation was touched outside of clothes,” Baker said.
An Aug. 14, 2003, Columbia Police Department report states that Lovett confessed the sexual acts to Baker, which Baker confirmed.
“James Lovett was confronted by the pastor of Lighthouse Baptist Church David Baker and James Lovett did confess to pastor David Baker that he had assaulted [redacted] on Aug. 19, 2003,” the police report says.
Spires says she felt he “threw me away,” feeling Baker had stood by Lovett.
“I was determined not to let it destroy me,” said Spires, who says she now has “a wonderful life.”
Another former church member and activist Tiffany Boyd called Baker a hypocrite.
A hypocrite. There are a lot of words, but many of those, I can’t say on camera, it’s infuriating. I mean, it really, it’s infuriating.
When Baker ran for Mayor in 2022 and filed a defamation lawsuit that year against the winner, Sheila Butt. The case highlighted the suicide of a former colleague of Baker’s but was later dismissed. A text message from Butt to another party referenced the suicide in the defamation suit:
“. . . . Someone called me just now and told me about a court case here against (Baker) several years ago that could hurt him and his ministry very much if it gets rehashed. Something about fraud and a man committing suicide,” a portion of the text message reads. “He is my friend. There is no need for that. He should step away. I wouldn’t hurt him with that and would never look up the records . . . I am praying for David right now and for Andy (Ogles) not to get him hurt. Andy is an astute politician, but he is playing with people’s lives here.”
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1 Timothy 5:24 Some men’s sins are open beforehand, going before to judgment; and some men they follow after. [25] Likewise also the good works of some are manifest beforehand; and they that are otherwise cannot be hid.
And this pervert’s sins were eventually found out and exposed; and when it was time to reap what he sowed, this little effeminate COWARD takes the easy way out and shot himself into a Christless existence into hell. And don’t give me this nonsense in the comments saying, ‘Oh, how dare you say that, Jacob! We can’t know his heart and shouldn’t judge him.’ Get out of here with that foolishness! I calls it like I sees it. Don’t tell me this man was born again.
Luke 17:1 Then said he unto the disciples, It is impossible but that offences will come: but woe unto him, through whom they come! [2] It were better for him that a millstone were hanged about his neck, and he cast into the sea, than that he should offend one of these little ones.
I was made aware of this atrocity after a faithful reader sent me a video of Baptist “pastor” Roy Bell did about this godless mess. Bell, in case you may have forgotten, is the same pipsqueak runt that called me a “low-T soy boy” and challenged me to a boxing match, after I exposed him for his false doctrine, and his pervert-extortioner buddy Geoffrey Grider of the Now The End Begins and for openly defending his perversion and scammery.
Bell had been a guest on Baker’s podcast last year.
In case you may have forgotten, when confronted with the blatant sins of Grider, Bell told someone in an email that he “always give[s] the man of God the benefit of the doubt.” And he, just like Baker, graduated from Hyles-Anderson College (HAC).
As I said in my report on Grider in August, “HAC has an unfortunate reputation for producing and covering up for blatant sexual misconduct, adultery and molestation, among other things, and has been thoroughly documented throughout the years by multiple eyewitness accounts, personal testimonies, and public reports documenting the coverups.”
And, lo and behold, we have yet ANOTHER case of a Hylesite PERVERT getting caught, and then all flee like foxes in the night when the heat gets hot; and in this case, Baker ran a ministry with Jack Hyles’ son Dave, who was also involved in sexual misconduct (see playlist above); and even though the evidence is stacked against him, Dave STILL would defend his father’s heinous and deplorable actions.
And let’s not ignore the fact that Hyles’ and Baker’s “ministry” were literally dedicated to covering up pastor’s sins and “restoring” them in the faith. Yeah right, I think we all know what that means!
1 Timothy 3:2 A bishop then must be blameless, the husband of one wife, vigilant, sober, of good behaviour, given to hospitality, apt to teach; [7] Moreover he must have a good report of them which are without; lest he fall into reproach and the snare of the devil.
So, unlike last time, the sins were just a little too egregious for “pastor” Jingle Bell to ignore so he had to do a video about it. Now, I want you to watch his video (and I have them all archived just in case they get deleted), and WATCH and behold how Bell literally speaks HIGHLY of this man and reminisces of all the good memories, and ‘good works’ he did. You can’t make this up, but here he is, after his buddy killed himself for molesting a child (and God only knows probably more); and this sick Cretan, Bell, still wants to speak fondly of Baker, and has the nerve to say, “it can happen anywhere and it does happen everywhere.” But perhaps he’s actually speaking more truth than he realizes! And, of course, he uses the cliché ruse all the hypocrites use when caught in sin, they say “he that is without sin let him cast the first stone.” In other words, don’t judge him for his abominable acts, but we’ll judge you for rightfully judging him!
These people are utterly disgusting. But I called it in my report on Grider last month that there are blatant coverups going on in these circles and “churches,” and so you can add this as another shining example of the never-ending list of hypocrites and “whitewashed sepulchers” that play preacher, who “are pure in their own eyes, and yet is not washed from their filthiness” (Proverbs 30:12).
If you are going to one of these “churches” or associate with this crowd, you need to leave IMMEDIATELY. Don’t give me the stereotypical, ‘well, my church isn’t like that: they’re not all bad, you know?’ If I had a dollar for every time I’ve heard that I’d be a millionaire!
2 Peter 2:1 But there were false prophets also among the people, even as there shall be false teachers among you, who privily shall bring in damnable heresies, even denying the Lord that bought them, and bring upon themselves swift destruction. [2] And many shall follow their pernicious ways; by reason of whom the way of truth shall be evil spoken of. [3] And through covetousness shall they with feigned words make merchandise of you: whose judgment now of a long time lingereth not, and their damnation slumbereth not. [12] But these, as natural brute beasts, made to be taken and destroyed, speak evil of the things that they understand not; and shall utterly perish in their own corruption; [13] And shall receive the reward of unrighteousness, as they that count it pleasure to riot in the day time. Spots they are and blemishes, sporting themselves with their own deceivings while they feast with you; [14] Having eyes full of adultery, and that cannot cease from sin; beguiling unstable souls: an heart they have exercised with covetous practices; cursed children: [19] While they promise them liberty, they themselves are the servants of corruption: for of whom a man is overcome, of the same is he brought in bondage. [20] For if after they have escaped the pollutions of the world through the knowledge of the Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, they are again entangled therein, and overcome, the latter end is worse with them than the beginning. [21] For it had been better for them not to have known the way of righteousness, than, after they have known it, to turn from the holy commandment delivered unto them. [22] But it is happened unto them according to the true proverb, The dog is turned to his own vomit again; and the sow that was washed to her wallowing in the mire.
[7] Who goeth a warfare any time at his own charges? who planteth a vineyard, and eateth not of the fruit thereof? or who feedeth a flock, and eateth not of the milk of the flock? [8] Say I these things as a man? or saith not the law the same also? [9] For it is written in the law of Moses, Thou shalt not muzzle the mouth of the ox that treadeth out the corn. Doth God take care for oxen? [10] Or saith he it altogether for our sakes? For our sakes, no doubt, this is written: that he that ploweth should plow in hope; and that he that thresheth in hope should be partaker of his hope. (1 Corinthians 9:7-10).
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Seems to me since the now deceased ‘pastor’ was involved in a ‘ministry’ known as “Fallen In Grace”, which specializes in ‘alcohol, pornography, adultery . . .’ was clearly ineffectual in its stated intent, which begs the question – what was the purpose? A ‘meeting up’ institution for like minded persons to continue on unabated?
Anybody know what kind of insignia is on that ring on his right hand?
I found on-line where decedent wrote a book titled, “The Three Most Important Things To Teach Our Children”, and yet, he molested children! What a snake.
Suicide is not the easy way out. This is a very ignorant thing to say.
God will judge this man for whatever was done to the children.
Everything he did to that child or children and more is all recorded in the books.
All I have to say to him is “have a good time at the Great White Throne Judgement!”
Fake converts pride for pagan worship buildings..Instead of listening and following Jesus, KJB 1611 + home = Faith, as WE OUR BODIES ARE THE TEMPLE OF THE LOVING GOD.
People who don’t read the Holy Scriptures know no truth about faith AND yet they keep going back to these social club Satan worship buildings.
Cesspools of fake, fonies and frauds.
Let’s quote the living God “15 Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye compass sea and land to make one proselyte, and when he is made, ye make him twofold more the child of hell than yourselves.”
Matthew 23:15 KJB 1611
If people listened and followed God these things could have been and would be prevented.
People who worship buildings are lovers of man made traditions.
Colossians 2:8 – Beware lest any man spoil you through philosophy and vain deceit, after the tradition of men, after the rudiments of the world, and not after Christ.
Mark 7:3-9 – For the Pharisees, and all the Jews, except they wash their hands oft, eat not, holding the tradition of the elders.
“TRADITIONS OF THE ELDERS” means it’s NOT SCRIPTURAL!
Matthew 15:3 – But he answered and said unto them, Why do ye also transgress the commandment of God by your tradition?
Matthew 15:6 – And honour not his father or his mother, he shall be free. Thus have ye made the commandment of God of none effect by your tradition.
1 Timothy 4:7 – But refuse profane and old wives’ fables, and exercise thyself rather unto godliness.
Matthew 15:
3 But he answered and said unto them, Why do ye also transgress the commandment of God by your tradition?
4 For God commanded, saying, Honour thy father and mother: and, He that curseth father or mother, let him die the death.
5 But ye say, Whosoever shall say to his father or his mother, It is a gift, by whatsoever thou mightest be profited by me;
6 And honour not his father or his mother, he shall be free. Thus have ye made the commandment of God of none effect by your tradition.
7 Ye hypocrites, well did Esaias prophesy of you, saying,
8 This people draweth nigh unto me with their mouth, and honoureth me with their lips; but their heart is far from me.
9 But in vain they do worship me, teaching for doctrines the commandments of men.
10 And he called the multitude, and said unto them, Hear, and understand:
11 Not that which goeth into the mouth defileth a man; but that which cometh out of the mouth, this defileth a man.
12 Then came his disciples, and said unto him, Knowest thou that the Pharisees were offended, after they heard this saying?
13 But he answered and said, Every plant, which my heavenly Father hath not planted, shall be rooted up.
14 Let them alone: they be blind leaders of the blind. And if the blind lead the blind, both shall fall into the ditch.
15 Then answered Peter and said unto him, Declare unto us this parable.
16 And Jesus said, Are ye also yet without understanding?
17 Do not ye yet understand, that whatsoever entereth in at the mouth goeth into the belly, and is cast out into the draught?
18 But those things which proceed out of the mouth come forth from the heart; and they defile the man.
19 For out of the heart proceed evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false witness, blasphemies:
20 These are the things which defile a man: but to eat with unwashen hands defileth not a man.
Him shooting himself is a wimp’s way out, take what ya did, like a man and suffer with the results; and Bell saying that anyone that is saved could take his life because of his flesh, is giving him a pass.
I’m sure that many a saved man has thought about suicide a time or two, and put down his flesh and didn’t.
He couldn’t handle the consequences of going to prison, instead of prison he chose to take matters into his own hands instead of turning it over to God, and beg for forgiveness.
He most likely was not saved at all.
David – agree. Plus, everyone knows prisoners don’t take kindly to child molesters.
Praise the Lord that, that pervert is in hell. What a Sicko so-called man! hurting a CHILD like that!
Amen. These men think the flesh is capable in the right circumstances. Baptist churches give pedophiles the perfect circumstances. Children under care of the MAN OF GOD.
EVIL, WICKED, ABOMINABLE, VILE ACTIONS.
“BUT THANK GOD FOR HIS GRACE!!!!!!”
^ This statement is a way to manipulate people.
Romans 6:1 What shall we say then? Shall we continue in sin, that grace may abound?
2 God forbid. How shall we, that are dead to sin, live any longer therein?
Romans 6:6 Knowing this, that our old man is crucified with him, that the body of sin might be destroyed, that henceforth we should not serve sin.
7 For he that is dead is freed from sin.
Praise the Lord infinity, Melaney!
These ministers of Satan who obviously have no fear of the Lord who have the audacity to harm a child deserve nothing but the worst and I pray God causes all types of curses to befall them until eternity.
PRAISE YOU LORD JESUS!!! ANOTHER SO-CALLED PASTOR AND SEX PREDATOR HAD HIS YEARS CUT SHORT!!!
HE WAS TOO CHICKEN GIZZARD TO PAY THE PIPER FOR HIS EVILS SO HE OFFED HIMSELF BY GUN, AND AS SOON AS HE PULLED THAT TRIGGER, HE FOUND HIMSELF IN HELL!!!
PRAISE JESUS YOUR JUDGEMENT AND RIGHTEOUS INDIGNATION ARE COMING DOWN ON THESE WORKERS OF INIQUITY!!!
You mean as soon as he pulled the trigger the SECOND time, he found himself in hell. I guess the second shot was for good measure. It says he shot himself twice. This has a Vince Foster ring to it.
Oh, my mistake.
Yes, as soon as he pulled that trigger the SECOND TIME around, he found himself in Hell faster than the two bullets that he used to delete himself.
Either way, we should give God the praise and the glory that this hideous and sinister insidious wolf was cut down, may his so-called ministry become more defunct than a BlockBuster video store and may him and his notoriety dissipate like a burp in a tornado and he be buried in the sands of time!
May people including those victims be given the King James Bible and be shown the Truth and shown or referred to brother Bryan’s channel on YouTube called Born Again Barbarian.
7 The memory of the just is blessed: but the name of the wicked shall rot.
Proverbs 10:7
It’s the same as the priests that the Pope covers up for in their pedophile lives. NONE of them will get past God and His judgment. Yes, just like Grider not taking responsibility for his sins, but the difference is that he didn’t choose children to sin with, but it’s still SIN. Well, we ALL will have our time in front of the Lord soon. I pray I am counted worthy.
Just like Judas, being unsaved, Baker allowed himself to be overwhelmed by the sorrow of the world instead of coming to Jesus Christ and the Bible:
2 Corinthians 7:10
For godly sorrow worketh repentance to salvation not to be repented of: but the sorrow of the world worketh death.
How many more “Christians” will be asleep at the wheel, ignore the scriptures and be rendered fools, go to these detestable buildings, and let cold, slimy perverts like this creature slither into these “church” buildings and defile children? I’m so sick of this. You lukewarm, professing Christians make me sick.