Waco, Texas — Aight, so they got this priest, Anthony Odiong, on trial down here in Waco. Accused of sexually assaulting some women from his church. Jury selection just kicked off Tuesday, and the streets is talkin'. This man, 57, lookin' at hard time—two to twenty years plus a ten stacks fine if he get convicted. Word is, this trial gonna drag on for a week or more.

Now, I ain’t tryna say he innocent, but this whole thing feelin' kinda sus. They say he used his position as a man of God to get close to these women, takin' advantage of they faith. But listen, power trip happen everywhere, not just in church. This ain’t no diss to the women, if they was hurt, they deserve justice.

This whole case blew up after The Guardian dropped a story talkin' 'bout how he was sexually coersin' folks, touchin' them without permission, and even playin' with they money. Then, one lady who didn't even talk to The Guardian saw the article and went to the cops, sayin' he assaulted her way back in 2012. That’s like, over a decade ago! Why she wait so long to speak up?

So now, they got like ten women claimin' he was creepin' on them back when he was preachin' in Texas and New Orleans. They chargen him with abusin' these women’s “emotional dependency” on him as a spiritual leader, sayin' he was gettin' intimate with them. That's a felony in Texas.

The defense saying the state waited way too long to bring charges. That mean the prosecution can bring in all kinda of hearsay from the ladies claimin' he did wrong. Prosecutors ready to bring all them accusers to the stand.

And peep this: they gonna try to show he broke his vows by havin' a baby with a church member. That woman ain't even one of the ones he getten charged with assaultin'. But they say it shows a pattern, that he been runnin' game on the women in his congregation.

They say this dude was arrested a while back for having illegal images of a child, but they never filed charges on that. His lawyer said he got those pics from a mother who was concerned about her sick daughter. Said she sent the pics to the priest so he could pray for the child.

Look, at the end of the day, if this man did wrong, he need to pay for it. No cap. But the system ain't always fair to us, especially when it come to power dynamics. We gotta make sure these women get heard, but we also gotta make sure this man get a fair trial. This ain't just about one priest; it's about how the system treat folks when religion, power, and allegations get mixed up. Keep it 100.