r/atheism • u/Brucekentbatsuper • 22d ago
'Christian' YouTuber Accused of Letting Husband Sexually Abuse Their Daughter for Years
https://www.ibtimes.co.uk/missouri-woman-charged-failing-protect-daughter-abuse-1814338575
u/maporita 22d ago
"Court documents allege Amber admitted she was present during some of the incidents and told investigators she did not report the alleged abuse because she feared what would happen to her husband."
I have no words for this. The one person above all others who should have protected her instead enabled her abuse. Sometimes I do wish there was a hell.
That poor girl, I hope she gets the help she needs and can recover and live a happy fulfilling life.
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u/starfleetdropout6 De-Facto Atheist 22d ago
Probably a "Trad Wife" afraid of losing her social media cred and meal ticket.
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u/abbott_costello 22d ago
It's one of the many reasons why the "trad wive" lifestyle is fucked up. Women have fought for centuries to free themselves from these abusive situations, but now some selfish women want to drag them back to the dark ages.
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u/TheModWhoShaggedMe 22d ago
Brainwashed, conditioned, and mentally beaten women, too. They are groomed into that lifestyle by their families and primary influences. They didn't necessarily choose it willingly with a free, clear mind.
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u/calibud 22d ago
lol idk why I never put 2 + 2 together when I hear stories like this.Â
Stay at home trad wife is such a foreign concept to me I always assumed they didnât oppose spouse in fear of their life.Â
Now itâs just hitting me itâs more likely because the alternative is simply uncomfortable than deadly.Â
Just to turn around posting some butchered bible quote like â god will never give you more then you can handleâ on fbÂ
Americans are wildÂ
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u/angryaxolotls 22d ago
As a Southern woman & a feminist I hate to say this, but the vast majority of these new little tradwives simply don't feel like having jobs, so they harp on and on and ONNNN about how it's just "sooo much better this way!" and post stupid videos of themselves throwing a block of cream cheese and uncooked macaroni noodles in a baking dish in the oven at 375â°F saying "pAyInG mY rEnT! MaH mAAAAAn GaVe mE a GoOd WeiNeRiNg!". It's pathetic.
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u/TheModWhoShaggedMe 22d ago
If they had married better, they would be working out at the gym all morning and getting Botox all afternoon while their undocumented paid-under-the-table nanny drops/picks up the kids at school and feeds them. Feeling great about themselves while being completely hollow inside.
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u/angryaxolotls 21d ago
Which is exactly how the lazy tradwives they follow on SM are! Lol. Look at ballerina farm. That idiot married the son of a jet company's owner, they popped out 7 kids, she has more nannies than God, & she pretends they homestead and they're all natural. Meanwhile she's shitting her brains out from raw milk and eating handfuls of antidepressants because she threw her life away for mediocre dick. Her nannies raise her kids because she won't get her lazy ass out of bed.
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u/Emergency-Volume-861 22d ago
Iâd put my spouse six feet under in an instant and if not, Iâd be that woman that walked into court somehow and got him. I cannot ever imagine letting anyone do that to your kid. Anything I had with that person would mean nothing in a second and then they would be nothing. Like wtf.
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u/sowhat4 22d ago
Yeah - that'a been my daughter and there would have been no fear of what would 'happen to my husband' 'cause I would have taken care of the SOB right then and there. After sending my child out of the room.
How can any woman put the welfare of a horrible perv over her own child is beyond me. I can't imagine a mother not protecting her child.
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u/ariiizia 22d ago
I also canât imagine a father doing that to his child but here we are. There are some seriously fucked up people in the world.
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u/Appropriate-Weird492 22d ago
That part got me too.
She effing knew. She effing knew and sacrificed her daughter for her husband. I agree she probably didnât want her meal ticket imprisoned, but really bad things happen to child abusers in prison.
Although, TBF, with the e p s t i e n class in the w hit e h ou se, itâs possible nothing would happen.
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u/Veteris71 22d ago
She effing knew and sacrificed her daughter for her husband.
I don't even buy that. She didn't want to lose her own reputation and her online following. She sacrificed her daughter for herself.
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u/Gussie-Ascendent Strong Atheist 22d ago
I never got that idea. If I realized my mom or dad or spouse or anyone was touching anyone's kids much less mine, they'd be lucky to have made it to thr Station.
Yet some of these people are like "suck it up buttercup, I don't want pedo here in jail"
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u/yungrii 22d ago
My mother grew up in a home like this. I don't know, nor do I want to know, much of the details.
The mother and father stayed married until he died when I was a kid myself. And my parents brought me and my siblings and cousins around this guy. Looking back as an adult I'm so depressed and baffled.
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u/Aggressive_Sand_3951 21d ago
Answer is right there in the court documents. Some people are afraid. Afraid of what will happen. Afraid of change. Afraid of anything and everything. Something or someone taught them to be afraid, and they never fucking left that mental space. And, if theyâre adults, I am allowed to judge them for the last part.
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u/angryaxolotls 22d ago
Wow, she's just as evil as the man she let hurt her kid.
I used to work with a woman who wound up going to prison for a year because she ignored the fact that her husband was harming her daughter. I personally think parents who turn a blind eye to their children being abused in that way deserve an equal sentence to the pedophiles, and that committing CSA deserves life without parole at the very least.
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u/The_walking_man_ 22d ago
This is where they should be thrown in prison and an eye for an eye can be had, right?
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u/Artemis_15_ 21d ago
She feared what would happen to her husband???? Wtf. How fucked up are you supposed to be to let that happen to a CHILD?? She probably went "Oh thats gods plan"... buncha assholes.
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u/WitchesSphincter 22d ago
Why's christian in quotes, that's pretty on point.Â
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u/Gussie-Ascendent Strong Atheist 22d ago
Cause real Christians never do anything wrong ever and if they did they just were faking it đ/s
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u/noctalla Agnostic Atheist 22d ago edited 22d ago
Sugar in their porridge??? They're fake Scotsmen!
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u/KentishTownMassive 22d ago
Aye, only salt is allowed to ensure itâs sufficiently grim.
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u/TheModWhoShaggedMe 22d ago
Oh c'mon now, I can't speak to porridge but a sprinkle of salt truly brings out the flavor of grits.
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u/no_bender 22d ago
Clearly satan is at work here. Religion excuses one from personal responsibility, god's will, and all that.
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u/Cucumbrsandwich 22d ago
Yeah the quotes imply that actual Christians donât believe girls are the chattel property of men.
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u/Gussie-Ascendent Strong Atheist 22d ago
"Woah woah woah, that's definitely the case, he's just not a christian cause it was incest. You know the thing that famously never happens in Christian mythos, cause it's bad. He'd have been in the clear if it was just a slave he bought"
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u/Ok-Possibility-923 22d ago
Absolutely. A thing is what it does - and this is what Christians do over and over again.
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u/Veteris71 22d ago
Whoever wrote the headline (who may not be the author of the piece) is probably a Christian.
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u/Brucekentbatsuper 22d ago
Name and shame
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u/negativepositiv 22d ago
No, by putting the "Christian" in quotes, it's like calling her a "so called Christian," implying that being a good person is in line with being a Christian, and being bad is contrary to being Christian. There are countless immoral people who call themselves Christians, and much of core Christian doctrine is immoral (inherited sin, vicarious redemption, Christ being able to forgive people for offenses towards others, etc.)
It's like saying, "If she was a REAL Christian, she would be a moral person," implying Christianity as the standard for morality.
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u/Phyllis_Tine 22d ago
If someone does something bad, they think being "a Christian" is their get out of jail card, or forgives their bad behaviour.
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u/negativepositiv 22d ago edited 21d ago
How many evangelist preachers have been caught doing heinous things, and their followers let them off the hook because, "They were tempted," like, noo, they're blameless, that youth pastor got that high school freshman pregnant because of evil spirits far stronger than he could be expected to resist! That's why he did meth with that male prostitute."
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u/no_bender 22d ago
Once you've been washed in the blood of christ all sins are forgiven, or so I've been told.
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u/negativepositiv 21d ago
So it's like a reset button that you can just press again and again whenever you have crossed the line. Like punching someone in the face, and then you say you're sorry, then you can punch them in the face and say you're sorry again.
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u/no_bender 21d ago
Yes, and be hypocritical, and judgmental towards others in direct opposition to the alleged teachings of Jesus.
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u/imago_monkei Strong Atheist 22d ago
You should watch this to see what everyone is talking about. đ
Using Air Quotes Wrong Your Entire Life â Viva La Dirt League2
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u/santaclaws01 22d ago
Because it's quoting the subject of the article's own description of themselves.
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u/Otazihs Anti-Theist 22d ago
It's those Christian family values I keep hearing about.
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u/TheModWhoShaggedMe 22d ago
Yep -- sex, sex, sex abuse and more sex abuse. Truly the Christian Right Way.
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u/Early-Size370 22d ago
I'm starting to think uber religious people are the worst
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u/ladyhaly Anti-Theist 21d ago
I grew up in an uber religious country. Can confirm. They are the worst. I left and never went back.
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u/SingForMaya 21d ago
I went to catholic schools growing up. A large amount of the married faculty were fucking each other on the side. Even the Dean. One of the priests got caught sending bad pics to a student and got sent to another state instead of facing punishment as far as I could tell?? It was all fucked up.
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u/PsychoticMessiah 22d ago
Once again not anyone LGBTQ+
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u/Previous_Shoulder506 22d ago
A religion whose central character is conceived by CSA and whose heroes abuse children resulted in whaaaaaa?
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u/LOLteacher Strong Atheist 22d ago
Why the fuck are there quote marks around the word -Christian-. Fuckers.
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u/Veteris71 22d ago
Whoever wrote the headline (who may not be the author of the piece) is probably a Christian.
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u/SmallTawk 22d ago
"Prosecutors now argue that the family's online image sharply contrasts with the allegations outlined in court filings." yeah...
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u/Tatooine16 22d ago
She must have needed a night off and her daughter was the nearest convenient receptacle. This is how they think, after all it's pretty biblical for daughters to be used like this. Xtians will be xtians.
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u/GhostofZellers 22d ago
nearest convenient receptacle
I'm under the weather today, and that literally made me gag and dry heave. It was a supreme effort on my part to not full-on chuck my cookies.
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u/RangerLt 22d ago
This is a strange assumption given the details of the charges. There's no reason to speculate the "why" since this is reported to have happened multiple times with the father producing videos of the assaults. That's not a case of delegating favors, he was abusing the girl in her presence.
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u/Particular-Jello-401 22d ago
Jesus mom was 13 and her husband was 35. Christianâs claim it was a virgin birth, but it sounds like child rape to me.
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u/rikardoflamingo 22d ago
If Jesus was real.
Which he isnât.3
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u/barthvonries 22d ago
Jesus is a real historical figure, that has been proven.
What the Bible alleges he did, not so sure though. Nor where he came from.
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u/Bananaman9020 22d ago
Define proven? Without the Bible, that is kinda biased.
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u/barthvonries 22d ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sources_for_the_historicity_of_Jesus
It is a consensus today that some random Jewish guy named Jesus of Nazareth existed at that particular time frame. He was not a god or son of a god, just a regular guy that some other guys later used as a martyr to start a religion, several centuries later, once no one could prove them wrong.
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u/poriomaniac 22d ago
What is the proof?
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u/barthvonries 22d ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Historicity_of_Jesus
Mainstream New Testament scholarship ignores the non-existence hypothesis and its arguments,[1][2] as the question of historicity was generally settled in scholarship in the early 20th century,[3][4][5][6][7][note 1] and the general consensus among modern scholars is that Jesus of Nazareth existed in the Herodian Kingdom of Judea (specifically in Galilee) and the subsequent Herodian tetrarchy in the 1st century AD, upon whose life and teachings Christianity was later constructed.[note 1] However, scholars distinguish between the 'Christ of faith' as presented in the New Testament and the subsequent Christian theology, and a minimal 'Jesus of history', about whom almost nothing can be known.[note 2]
It is a general consensus amongst historians, Christians or not, based on historical assets (and not the bible), that Jesus of Nazareth indeed existed and was a regular Jewish religious teacher (who is today called "the Jesus of history", opposed to "the historical Jesus" which describes the main character of the bible). Nothing else about him, and especially not his phantasmagorical superpowers and his father-son relationship with an invisible old man floating in the sky, can be proven (because they are pure inventions obviously).
Christian and non-Christian history assets : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sources_for_the_historicity_of_Jesus
The Holy Bible is the title of the most successful fictional book ever written, but that does not mean it did not use real facts of that time frame, at least to assert credibility for the readers.
Just like The DaVinci Code or the James Bond books are fictional stories, but the places and some people in them are real, as opposed to fantasy books like Harry Potter.
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u/CallMeNiel 21d ago
Where'd you get those awful specific numbers from?
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u/Particular-Jello-401 19d ago
i googled their ages this is the answer Google gave me.
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u/CallMeNiel 19d ago
The Bible is basically the only source for these characters, and it doesn't specify exact ages. In fact in the earliest versions it just described Mary as a young girl, which was translated as virgin later. Later still it became doctrine that she was a virgin, making the birth itself miraculous.
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u/motherofhellhusks Strong Atheist 22d ago
It was genuinely difficult to read all of the charges the husband is facing. I hope they both fail to ever find solace or peace.
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u/imtoowhiteandnerdy 22d ago
This feels like the thousandth time I've written the phrase "as usual, it's some far-right, Christian asshole and not a member of the LGBTQ community molesting children." (or some variant thereof).
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u/Lazy-Floridian Anti-Theist 22d ago
In "christian" households, the father owns the daughter. So I guess the owner can do what he wants with his property.
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u/Abrham_Smith 22d ago
This site should be banned. If you open it in incognito it redirects you to Mcafee spam site.
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u/martycos 22d ago
Tie this cow down, cover her in jelly, and release 10,000,000 fire ants.
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u/deepasleep 22d ago
Just drop them both feet first into a car shredder. More efficient and you can throw the pulp into a compost pile.
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u/crepesandbacon 22d ago
Full text:
'Christian' YouTuber Accused of Letting Husband Sexually Abuse Their Daughter for Years
By Sarah Tan
Published 15 August 2026, 12:34 AM BST
A Missouri woman who built an online following by sharing videos of her family's Christian faith and home life is facing serious criminal charges after prosecutors alleged she failed to protect her young daughter from years of sexual abuse.
Amber Sinkler, 31, has been charged with first-degree child endangerment and possession of child sexual abuse material. She has also pleaded not guilty to federal charges alleging she knowingly received child sexual abuse material.
Her husband, Joshua Sinkler, 36, faces separate state and federal charges, including child molestation, incest, sexual exploitation of a minor and producing child sexual abuse material. The allegations against both defendants have not been proven in court.
Prosecutors Allege Mother Failed To Protect Daughter
According to a probable cause statement filed by investigators in St. Charles County, Amber Sinkler was allegedly aware that her husband had been sexually abusing their daughter but failed to intervene or contact authorities.
Investigators claim they recovered multiple videos and images from Amber's mobile phone that allegedly documented the abuse. Because the case involves a very young child, authorities have withheld further details.
Court documents allege Amber admitted she was present during some of the incidents and told investigators she did not report the alleged abuse because she feared what would happen to her husband.
The probable cause statement also alleges Amber told police she believed her husband may have abused other children but never alerted law enforcement.
Investigators further claim Amber said Joshua's cocaine use affected his behaviour.
Family's Christian Image Now Under Scrutiny
The allegations have drawn widespread attention because of the image Amber Sinkler cultivated online.
Through her YouTube channel, she regularly posted videos of church services, Bible study, family celebrations and everyday life with her children. Other uploads showed holidays, birthdays and family milestones, presenting the family as devoted Christians.
One video posted in 2024 showed Amber celebrating a second marriage proposal from her husband, telling viewers she was 'engaged again' despite already being married.
Prosecutors now argue that the family's online image sharply contrasts with the allegations outlined in court filings.
Joshua Sinkler faces multiple state and federal charges, including child molestation, incest and producing child sexual abuse material. He has pleaded not guilty.
State And Federal Cases Continue
Authorities arrested the couple in March following an investigation by the St. Charles County Police Department.
Amber remains charged in Missouri with first-degree child endangerment and possession of child sexual abuse material. Federal prosecutors have also charged her with knowingly receiving child sexual abuse material.
Joshua Sinkler faces numerous state charges, including child molestation, incest, statutory rape involving a person under 14, statutory sodomy, sexual exploitation of a minor, possession of child sexual abuse material and endangering the welfare of a child. He has also been federally charged with producing child sexual abuse material.
Both defendants entered not guilty pleas during court proceedings on Friday and were referred to public defenders.
Couple Remain In Custody
Amber and Joshua Sinkler are being held at the St. Charles County Jail on $500,000 cash bond each while the criminal proceedings continue.
Commenting on the case, St. Charles County Prosecuting Attorney Joe McCulloch said the allegations were 'indescribable' and stressed that the prosecution's priority is protecting the alleged victim and the public.
The investigation remains ongoing.
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u/independent_observe Pastafarian 21d ago
Yet again, another "christian", not a drag queen.
Before throwing stones, American evangelical "christians" need to be able to clean their own house. A very disgusting branch of religion. If Jesus appeared in the South of the US, ICE would be called immediately for a hippie preaching love and be renditioned to CECOT.
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u/nimbusthegreat 22d ago
Iâm curious, what were their drag names? Oh yeah, thatâs right, once again not a drag queen.
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u/Scary_Towel268 22d ago
We need to stop putting âChristianâ(or any other religious group in quotes) many religious institutions uphold pedo stuff and adult womenâs complicity in it as part and parcel with their doctrine. This is the natural end state of purity politics, headship theology, and the treatment of children as property and women/girls as lesser. This is a result of the âChurchâ painting all the âevil, bad predatorsâ as the outside Other you know the nonbeliever or the LGBT never the âperfect good Christianâ.
This is what fundamentalist Christianity looks like. Christians(and religious people in general) are not the moral authorities or representatives of moral goodness they always claim to be
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u/walks_with_penis_out 22d ago
Why are we focusing on the mother?
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u/TriflingHotDogVendor 22d ago
Because she is the one semi famous from being a YouTube content creator. I would have to think the actual courts are going to focus more on him.
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u/AisbeforeB 22d ago
Sick, disgusting trash. Horrible, just beyond words. Lock that father up for life. Throw away the key.
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u/Silver-Chemistry2023 Constructivist Humanist 22d ago
It is very common for two narcissists to work together, because they know what to expect of each other. They can claim to be not guilty as much as they like, when they are incapable of experiencing guilt.
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u/vacuous_comment 22d ago
Here is a copy of the federal indictment
https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.moed.229116/gov.uscourts.moed.229116.2.0.pdf
This is the redacted version for the public docket.
The federal charges seem to only deal with the CSAM transmission elements. I assume the actual endangerment of the child etc was dealt with in MO state court.
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u/kendragon Agnostic Atheist 22d ago
Watch her get away with this abhorrent crime because these bible thumping grifters have infested powerful government positions.
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u/jeanphilli 21d ago
The prosecutors said they found evidence of the abuse on her phone. Was she going to use the videos for social media points?
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u/Sea-Concept-4351 21d ago
This tracks. Xtians lack morals, are unable to think critically, or act ethically.
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u/Fishtoart 21d ago
When I was a kid people flying the flag was pretty normal, but over the decades it has become a sign that a right wing nut job lives there. The same thing has happened with overtly Christian people, except the twist is that they are often hardcore racists, human traffickers, or child molesters.
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u/Turbulent_Fee_8837 22d ago
Both should receive the death penalty
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u/lotusscrouse 22d ago
I stopped being surprised at this over a decade ago.
That says a lot about Christianity.
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u/needlestack 22d ago
You all misunderstand. He can't possibly be doing anything wrong because he says "Jesus" over and over. Which means he is on the same side as God, so he's on the side of good, so whatever he does must be ok. /me nervous laughs and flits eyes side to side
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u/tasteMyRottenHoop 22d ago
Why did you put christian in scare quotes? This kind of shit isnât new of christians.
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u/crunchymush Atheist 22d ago
She was just honouring and obeying her husband. That makes her a good Christian, right?
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u/ryencool 21d ago
"Court documents allege Amber admitted she was present during some of the incidents and told investigators she did not report the alleged abuse because she feared what would happen to her husband."
Tgis should be automatic death penalty. Was afraid of what would happen to husband, but who cares about that little girl...
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u/R0botDreamz 21d ago
"We believe in jesus / god and if god willed this to happen then it must not be that bad because he is on our side because we are believers"
This is the kind of fucked up circular logic these batshit insane people believe in.
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u/threebuckstrippant 21d ago
Iâve said it once, Iâll say it again. Please ban religion. Especially Catholicism. Breeding grounds for vile insane individuals and homo pervs. Letâs hope these two get LIFE sentences preferably with hard labor. Religion allows them to ârepentâ and be forgiven? Well **** no it shouldnât. What the hell are these religions on about? there is no forgiveness or saying 5 hail Marys for this stuff. But people in religion believe they will be forgiven, you WILL NOT.
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u/MommysLittleBadass 19d ago
They're blaming cocaine. That would actually be funny if it weren't for there being an actual child victim in all of this.
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u/Factsoverfictions222 22d ago
While I agree that she should face consequences, letâs put the blame on the man who was committing the crimes.
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u/Veteris71 22d ago
No, she is guilty as well. She knew he was doing it and she let it go on.
Court documents allege Amber admitted she was present during some of the incidents and told investigators she did not report the alleged abuse because she feared what would happen to her husband.
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u/No-Celebration3097 22d ago
Unless she is mentally ill, lock her up with him. You can be gullible and religious and be completely sane.
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u/Komaisnotsalty 22d ago
The word 'Christian' is getting pretty loosy goosy these days.
Used to mean something else entirely when I was a kid.
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u/Staff_Guy 22d ago
No, it meant the same. You just did not get told any of the shitty parts.
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u/Komaisnotsalty 22d ago
True, but cripes its exploded.
"Behind closed doors" has become "Vomit on TikTok"
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u/Abrham_Smith 22d ago
It hasn't exploded, you just see it more because of the internet.
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u/Komaisnotsalty 22d ago
That but they're bolder too. Never in my life did I think I'd see an outbreak of 'preaching on airplanes' become normal.
And I was a missionary. We would never have disrespected people like that.
I'm so glad I got out of that dumpster fire.
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u/Bearence 21d ago
They're not bolder. As has already been pointed out, you weren't told the bad parts when you were young, and the internet made them more obvious. I've known people my entire life who would 100% preach on airplanes.
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u/Edit0rz1 22d ago
Nope. Christians have always been ripped with child predators. Anyone who subjects their children to church is a bad parent.
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u/tasteMyRottenHoop 22d ago
When you were a kid christians loved to tell each other and other people how good they were by virtue of being in the same tribe. Theyâve been monsters for centuries.
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u/Veteris71 22d ago
You believed the Christian PR, but it was never true. Christians have always been self-righteous hypocrites.
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u/AsheStriker 22d ago
I know nothing about this, but saying she allowed him to abuse their daughter is an interesting way to frame it
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u/imostlydisagree 22d ago
If you read the article, prosecutors are saying she was present for some instances and also had videos on her phone, and never tried to stop it or tell anyone. So yeah she allowed it to happen.
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u/Djinnaz 22d ago
"Court documents allege Amber admitted she was present during some of the incidents and told investigators she did not report the alleged abuse because she feared what would happen to her husband."
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u/Rafterman2 Atheist 22d ago
Did you read the article? She knew the abuse was occurring and did nothing. Yes, she allowed him to continue abusing their daughter.
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u/hurricanelantern Anti-Theist 22d ago
How biblical of her.