A female pastor in Missouri has been suspended after her ties to Jeffrey Epstein were brought to light.
Reverend Stephanie L Remington was placed on leave for 90 days last Thursday by Bishop Robert Farr of the Missouri Conference of the United Methodist Church.
Remington worked as Epstein’s administrative assistant and property manager on Little Saint James from August 2018 to May 2019, just months before he died.
She said she ‘never saw anything’ on Epstein’s infamous private island but acknowledged she was aware of the convicted sex offender’s past crimes.
‘I knew him for the last nine months of his life, well after he served time for the things that he was accused of doing,’ Remington told UM News.
Remington also compared her link to Epstein to the biblical example of Jesus Christ, appearing to advocate for grace and second chances that she admitted Epstein ‘didn’t deserve.’
‘Jesus got into a lot of trouble for the company he kept, but he didn’t let that trouble pressure him into rejecting the people who, by their standards, did not deserve to be human,’ Remington said.
She added, ‘Social death is just another kind of murder. He opened his heart and his mind to them, and they opened their tables and alabaster jars to him. Is Jeffrey not among their kind?’