A UK pastor has been charged with manslaughter after a grandfather of seven drowned during a home baptism — and she allegedly recorded a video saying she saw him “dancing with Jesus.”
Cheryl Bartley, 48, was live-streaming a ceremony in October 2023 for Robert Smith, 61, on the Facebook page of her Life Changing Ministries, according to the Telegraph.
The stream suddenly cut out as Smith, a born-again believer who has Parkinson’s disease, was being baptized in a kids’ paddling pool in the house in Birmingham, according to the report.
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