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A Baltimore deacon charged with sexually soliciting a minor was discovered in a partnership between local sheriffs and a streaming predator investigation television program.
“We heard that there are rumors that Chris Hansen of ‘Takedown’ was back in Harford County,” Harford County, Maryland, Sheriff Jeffrey Gahler wrote in an Aug. 7 Facebook post.
“Well, the rumors are true.”
“In partnership with Chris Hansen’s team, we just completed a week of filming here, and what our joint operation uncovered should concern every parent in our community. Throughout this effort, investigators encountered multiple individuals from within Harford County attempting to communicate with who they believed were children.”
Among those arrested, Gahler wrote, was Kenneth Goedeke, “who was taken into custody after engaging with an undercover deputy posing online as a 15-year-old boy. This case highlights exactly why these operations matter. Individuals continue attempting to approach children, and our investigators are confronting them directly.”
Goedeke, 45, is a deacon of the Archdiocese of Baltimore, ordained in 2023, who has been both employed since 2005 at several Catholic parishes and — from 2020 until February 2026 — at
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