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Ministry Warning:
Convicted Criminal, Cyberstalker & Fugitive Ken Parks,
Bernardino "Dino" de Vincenzi:
ETC Ministries, as well as Atlanta MAX Photo, Fotos by Ken, & Ansisoft
Front and side views of Ken Parks:
Picture found on one of Ken Parks' web sites.
Ken Parks and Bernardino de Vincenzi:
Picture found on one of Ken Parks' web sites.
This website is posted as a public service warning. Since 2000 convicted criminal and fugitive Ken Parks of Duluth, GA has been cyberstalking, libeling, harassing, and threatening scores of people, including his family members, via chatrooms, his web sites, and making unwanted and unprovoked contact via e-mail and regular mail. Parks is also advertising on the Internet and elsewhere his fraudulent and unregistered ministry/charity ETC Ministries, as well as his unregistered and fraudulent photography businesses Atlanta MAX Photo, Fotos by Ken, and Ansisoft computer business. Parks has falsely claimed to have won his pro se (without an attorney) lawsuits against his victims when in fact the documents show he has lost his lawsuits and that none of his victims has been ordered to pay anyone any monetary court judgments. Parks has also claimed since 2004 that he is always in the process of filing yet another pro se lawsuit against his cyberstalked victims, but none of his victims has ever received any notification of any lawsuit from Parks or anyone else. In 2004, a judge warned Parks to stop filing his pro se lawsuits or face monetary judgments against him.
Parks has included on his multiple web sites photographs of his cyberstalked victims as well as false depictions of some of his victims by using offensive pictures of complete strangers found apparently on Internet photostock sites. He has accused many of his victims of being convicted child abusers and terrorists. More bizarrely, he has at times accused his victims of being the authors of his own web sites which he in fact has published. With the help of an investigative journalist, the collaborative Ministrywarning website was set up in July, 2005, by a number of Ken Parks' victims, many from his own family, to publish public records against Ken Parks, to clear innocent people's names of the serious crimes Parks accuses them of committing, and to warn the public about this self-professed "ministry leader" and fraudulent business owner. What is also of concern is that Ken Parks, a proven serial cyberstalker, is advertising himself on the Internet and elsewhere as a photographer, and using an alias -- Max -- to shield his true identity. Should any potential or actual clients of Parks not be satisfied with his photos, or if Parks should just happen to not take a liking to his clients, Parks can very easily add those innocent people to the growing number of victims that he is cyberstalking all over the Internet.
The purpose of this website is to give readers factual information so they can make an informed decision about U.S. citizen Ken Parks (aka, Kenneth Floyd Parks, Ken Max Parks), Italian citizen Bernardino "Dino" de Vincenzi, ETC Ministries, and Parks' fraudulent and unregistered businesses Fotos by Ken and Atlanta MAX Photo, and his Ansisoft computer business. Because of documented evidence of harm already committed by Ken Parks against numerous people, and his claims to be a Christian "ministry leader" and professional business owner, the information herein is pertinent to public interest and is therefore newsworthy. Many of the victims' names have been blocked out in documented evidence presented in this web site.
Ken Parks uses many different avatars (aliases) on a variety of chat rooms, oftentimes using multiple avatars on the same chat room and engaging in conversations with himself that appear to be with different people. He also claims as identifying registration information on chat rooms to be from a variety of professions (such as doctor, lawyer, journalist) and locations in states other than where he actually lives in Duluth, Georgia. Documentation exists (some of which, for protection reasons, has not been published on this Ministrywarning web site) that demonstrates that Parks is a serial cyberstalker crawling all over the Internet. Ken Parks most likely has any number of harassing and libelous web sites published against numerous people beyond the web sites identified in this Ministrywarning web site. Evidence not published in this Ministrywarning web site indicates that Parks is cyberstalking far more people than the victims who have contributed their content to this web site. Due to protection concerns, unpublished documentation indicating Ken Parks' extensive cyberstalking is, as yet, only for authorities to view. Any cyberstalked victims reading this Ministrywarning web site who may not know for sure who is cyberstalking them could very likely discover Ken Parks as the criminal responsible for cyberstalking them. Documentation, also not published on this Ministrywarning website for protection purposes, also exists of likely evidence of Ken Parks hacking into web sites (such as in chat rooms so as to view private registration information in his effort to find out more information on his victims). Any person reading this Ministrywarning web site who has had their web site or chat room hacked into could very likely be one of Ken Parks' victims.
Parks may very likely have any number of other fraudulent ministry/charity web sites and other fraudulent business web sites in his apparent attempts to scam the public.
Ken Parks has arrest records, a conviction for battery and trespassing, and a fugitive-status arrest warrant issued in Connecticut for harassment. Click here for copies of Ken Parks' arrests records, conviction records and fugitive-status arrest warrant records.
MORE Biographical Facts about Ken Parks
In November of 1992, Ken Parks pulled a gun on his ex-wife during a child visitation exchange that took place in Parks' driveway when he lived in Florida. One of Parks' children was standing next to his mother when Parks pointed the gun at his ex-wife. Apparently knowing that his ex-wife was going to report the incident to the police, Parks called the police first. Astoundingly, the Florida police issued a mere citation of the incident despite the seriousness of Parks' endangerment to his children, to his ex-wife and to her husband.
Parks has also been investigated by the Secret Service and the FBI. His first investigation by U.S. federal authorities occurred in the late 1980s after he threatened to assassinate former President Ronald Reagan. With the help of one of Connecticut's Congressional representatives, Parks was investigated by the Atlanta FBI throughout 2004 and 2005 for harassment, his admitted cyber attacks of hacking, as well as for suspected virus cyber attacks and a suspected denial of service attack. The FBI investigation was also conducted as a result of Parks' threatening and alarming statements ("predictions" and "dreams") on his kenfactor web site regarding Kennedy Space Center and Cape Canaveral, his claim to have known specific detail of the 9/11 terrorist attacks before they happened (he posted this claim after the attacks), and his threats against individuals whom Parks has been harassing. The FBI agents who questioned Parks warned him to stop all forms of harassment, and his FBI record has been updated since that warning. At least one of Parks' FBI record numbers is 371423DA4.
UPDATE: Parks' previous ETC Ministries web site hosted by Altervista in Italy, run by Gianluca Danesin, was taken down in February, 2007. Ken Parks had given indications that the ETC Ministries web site was registered in the name of his apparent one-time "best friend" Bernardino "Dino" de Vincenzi. Gianluca Danesin of Altervista had refused for some time to shut down the ETC Ministries web site despite being given compelling evidence to do so. Click here for Danesin's e-mailed response. Danesin did finally shut down one of Parks' previous kenfactor web sites registered with Altervista after extensive efforts were made by Parks' cyberstalked victims who made complaints with specific citations from Italy's Data Protection Laws. Now, Danesin also no longer hosts Parks' fraudulent and libelous ETC Ministries web site. It seems likely that there has been a falling out between Parks and Bernardino de Vincenzi. This may be due in part to records of Parks' criminal activities, and Vincenzi's connection to Parks' cyberstalking campaign against innocent people, being sent to Italian officials in Vincenzi's town of Vigevano in northern Italy. Vincenzi is a town employee in Vigevano.
Since February 2006, Parks has run his fraudulent ETC Ministries and conducted his extensive cyberstalking campaign from his residence at 11950 Carriage Park Lane, Duluth, Georgia. From 2003 to 2006 Parks ran his fraudulent ministries and businesses and his cyberstalking campaign from a rented house at 3357 Montheath Pass in Duluth, Georgia. Prior to his Georgia addresses, Parks conducted his cyberstalking activities from a number of rented residences in Florida, starting in 2000 (Parks fraudulently claims he had enough money to buy property in Florida, but his children know for a fact that this is yet another lie). After an off-again-on-again relationship, Parks married Joni McConnell in February, 2006 and moved into her residence. His current wife, Joni McConnell Parks, has a minor child. Parks' current wife broke off their first engagement in the spring of 2005, shortly before their first scheduled wedding, due to finding out about Parks' web sites and his cyberstalking campaign against his family and former friends. Yet she allowed Parks to re-enter her life and she married him in February, 2006, with full knowledge of his criminal history and his ongoing stalking and harassment activities against others. When Joni McConnell Parks was notified by investigative journalist Michael Barrick in December, 2006, about her husband's fraudulent ETC Ministries, Joni Parks submissively excused her husband's libelous and fraudulent content by stating that "he likes to write." In July, 2007, Ken Parks' wife was contacted by his mother and informed of the truth about Ken and his stalking and harassment campaign against his many victims. Parks' mother tried to reason with Parks' wife so as to have her urge her husband to take down his libelous and malicious web sites. Parks' mother also informed Parks' wife that the Ministrywarning web site and possibly Mr. Barrick's news article would be removed if her husband permanently stopped his years-long stalking and harassment campaign and all search term results on all search engines showed no more libelous and defamatory information about Parks' cyberstalked victims. Joni Parks admitted she had tried previously to talk to her husband about taking down his web sites and leaving people alone, but she confided "You know how men are. They won't admit when they need help." Joni Parks admitted she was fully aware of Parks' criminal history, including the fugitive status arrest warrant issued against him for harassment, and she also admitted that she would never want anyone posting up libelous and malicious content about her on the Internet. Joni Parks is also aware of her husband harassing the employer of his sister in his attempts to get her fired based on his libelous statements against her in his harassing e-mail to her employer and libelous statements made on his web sites (Parks' sister is employed as a teacher, not a librarian, and with a verifiably good reference history from her previous employers; she is also a published historian). Joni Parks again admitted she would never want anyone contacting her employer with harassing lies in an attempt to get her fired. She contradicted herself by admitting sometimes she believed her husband's accounts against people and then admitted that his posting of known lies against his family and his former friends is wrong and "strange." She described her husband Ken Parks as "very angry" and she admitted that her first husband was abusive and that there is a history of abuse in her own family. But regardless of any past abuse in her life, Mrs. Joni Parks freely chooses to allow her husband Ken Parks to continue his crimes in her home and she is therefore guilty of aiding and abetting a criminal and harboring a fugitive. It is very sad that Joni Parks seems to believe that she must submit quietly to whatever harm her husband Ken Parks chooses to do against so many people, apparently refusing to admit that this is yet another form of abusive behavior. It seems apparent that Ken Parks' current wife Joni is the primary wage earner in the marriage since Parks has a long-term record of unemployment and under-employment.
Parks has no seminary or Bible school training. Parks' ETC Ministries gives no indication that it has any board of directors nor any form of financial or administrative oversight, nor any staff members. As of this writing, Parks' ETC Ministries has not been registered with either the IRS or with the state of Georgia. The Atlanta IRS office and the Governor's Office of Consumer Affairs in Georgia have on record the documents provided to them against Parks and his ETC Ministries.
Parks has advertised his ETC Ministries on chat forums, claiming to "provide for the needy." Further links in this web site point out that Parks seems to claim that he's "feeding the poor, giving money to those in need, visiting those in prison, or providing comfort to the elderly." Another link further on in this web site demonstrates Parks' refusal to answer questions posed to him in a chat forum about how he acquires money for his ETC Ministries. Parks employment record has been very irregular since the 1980s.
Based on Parks' criminal history, there is reasonable opinion that Parks' ETC Ministries web site and his chat forum posts may very well be his effort to seek donations for his own personal use under the guise of running a "ministry" for the "poor, needy, elderly and neglected." This concern is especially relevant given the fact that Parks is frequently unemployed, he has collection agencies seeking him for past-due credit card bills and court judgments, and he has no evident means of sustainable income.
Since 2001, and up to early 2007, nearly 20 of Parks' web sites have been removed by domestic and foreign web host companies after family members' complaints about Parks' extremely malicious, libelous, and defamatory attacks, including against his own daughter, other family members, former friends, former employers, former co-workers, churches and church leaders, judges, and the police. Some of Parks' web sites had as part of their URLs kentoday and kenfactor. As is true with other illegal web sites, convicted criminals like Parks can find any number of shady free web host companies that will aid and abet criminals in their libelous stalking campaigns against innocent people.
Click here for kenfactor web pages Parks wrote against the police.
Parks has repeatedly and baselessly accused his family members of committing the crime of abusing his children when in fact child protective services in Connecticut and Florida investigated Parks for child abuse. Parks lost custody of his children by court order and by his children's choice to live with their mother. Parks has also baselessly accused his ex-wife of being unmarried and having an illegitimate child when in fact his ex-wife has been married since the early 1990s and her child with her second husband was conceived well after they were married.
Click here for samples of Parks' web site libel, defamation and harassment against his ex-wife.
Click here for samples of Parks' web site libel, defamation and harassment against his family.
Ken Parks previously ran a libelous and harassing chat forum hosted by Forumer.com. Bernardino "Dino" de Vincenzi also apparently registered in Parks' chat forum with the avatar Dino. To register on Parks' chat forum, he required people to e-mail to him their full names, full residence address, telephone number and e-mail address, and he warned about how "savvy" he is in computer usage so as to confirm that information. Parks apparently has a history of identity theft. Family members have been repeatedly contacted by collection agencies because of past-due credit card bills either taken out in Ken Parks' name or in the names of family members who did not take out credit cards. Apparently, Ken Parks has also given the addresses and phone numbers of family members to credit card companies in order to avoid payment on those credit cards. Because of Parks' frequent unemployment and his apparent credit card debt, there is reasonable concern that Parks may have been "phishing" on his chat forum for personal identity information so as to acquire additional credit cards by using that information. The parent company of Forumer was notified about the libelous content on Parks' chat forum and about his likely "phishing" efforts and Forumer removed his chat forum in December, 2006.
Ken Parks has filed and lost pro se (without a lawyer) lawsuits with the admitted intent of costing his victims time and attorneys' fees. In his last baseless pro se lawsuit, Parks dismissed the lawsuit at the last minute after being warned by his victims' attorneys to do so due to compelling evidence against him. He then tried to "undismiss" his dismissal after his victims' attorneys filed for attorneys' fees. Parks has openly boasted on chat rooms that his sole reason for filing baseless, harassing pro se lawsuits is to cause financial damage and emotional duress. In those pro se lawsuits, Parks has sought to be awarded 5 million dollars for "damages." Two such dismissed pro se lawsuits are found in Gwinnett County Courthouse under Civil Action Number 89A-4568-3 and Civil Action Number 04A-08311-6. In both of these dismissed libelous and harassing pro se lawsuits, Parks accused defendants of threatening his life and/or issuing death threats. Yet another of Ken Parks' dismissed pro se lawsuits that he filed in Georgia's Gwinnett County Magistrate Court is found under Civil Action File Number 95M 7615.
Click here for a copy of Ken Parks' pro se lawsuit dismissal document
Attorneys' fees were sought against Parks in an April 2005 hearing after the dismissal of his last pro se lawsuit. The attorneys' fees amount was much higher than what the victims of Parks' harassing and libelous pro se lawsuit paid to their attorney; their attorney worked pro bono for them after Parks' baseless lawsuit was dismissed and simply sought compensation for that pro bono work against Parks should the judge award the higher amount asked for by the victims' attorney. Possibly due to Parks' demonstrated disturbing behavior in the Gwinnett County Courthouse, the judge in the attorneys' fees hearing verbally warned Parks to never enter Gwinnett County Courthouse with any more of his pro se lawsuits or the outcome would be different for him. Parks told the judge that he wanted nothing more to do with his victims, yet his ongoing harassment via chat room and web site content has proved that he has perjured himself. Click here for victims' attorney's e-mail describing the outcome of the attorneys' fees hearing. Prior to the attorneys' fees hearing, Parks' victims received an unexpected windfall of money which more than offset the small expense (well under $4,800) they paid their attorney to have Parks banned from filing any more baseless pro se lawsuits. This is in addition to the fact that their attorney worked pro bono for them after Parks' harassing and libelous pro se lawsuit was dismissed. In relative terms, Ken Parks spent more money in court fees for making his multiple filings for his lost pro se lawsuit than his victims had to spend to succeed in having him virtually banned from filing any more harassing baseless pro se lawsuits. As was confirmed later on, Parks asked another family member, from whom he's also estranged, for financial help to pay for all of his multiple filings in his baseless pro se lawsuit against his cyberstalked victims (the family member refused to give him any money). Yet, on Parks' current web sites and on chat room boasts, Parks actually implies that he won his pro se lawsuit against his victims and that his victims were ordered to pay over $4,800.00 in court ordered judgments. In reality, the documented evidence shows that Parks lost his harassing and libelous pro se lawsuit via dismissal and he absolutely did not receive any monetary judgment, nor were there any judgments against his victims to pay anyone over $4,800.00. Rather, Ken Parks is virtually banned from filing any more of his baseless pro se lawsuits in Gwinnett County Courthouse under a judge's verbal warning that he will face a more serious outcome if he disregards that warning. Ridiculously, Parks has been threatening since 2004 that he is right on the verge of filing yet another pro se lawsuit against his victims. Since the judge's warning in 2004, no one has received any notification of any lawsuits.
Ken Parks has posted in chat forums using the avatars Churchill, Churchill_Duluth, Blepo, Mirage, Detego Maximus, Paranoia Polly, Alex, barrickrevealed, etc guy, etcministries, Bruce_Almighty. He has many other avatars as well which, for protection reasons, are not published on this Ministrywarning web site. Parks has been banned from and/or severely edited on several chat forums. On an atheist chat forum called MaggotPunks, Parks posted up the names and address of two of his family members whom he's been cyberstalking and urged "militant extremists" to "visit" them. Parks, the self-proclaimed "ministry leader," posted these obscene and threatening statements immediately after his baseless pro se lawsuit against those family members was dismissed late in 2004. MaggotPunks administrators confronted Parks in his use of multiple avatars and warned him that they would ban him. Parks claimed in one post that Detego Maximus was his co-worker and that this co-worker was posting on the MaggotPunks forum using the same work computer as Parks. But during this time Parks was unemployed. Click here for all of Parks' MaggotPunk chat room posts under the avatars Churchill, Detego Maximus and Paranoia Polly.
In 2005, Ken Parks was notified again, this time by certified and notarized letter, that ALL of his threatening, obscene and harassing posts had been added to his FBI record and to the record of his fugitive-status arrest warrant in Connecticut. He was again warned to immediately remove ALL of his chat forum posts and to cease all forms of harassment. A few days after Parks was in receipt of this certified and notarized letter, the MaggotPunks chat forum was hacked into and the entire forum's posts were deleted. One of the administrators, D-cubed, posted his comments about it on the forum soon after the site was brought up again. The MaggotPunks site was again attacked and some of the words were changed to a foreign language.
Ken Parks has boasted in chat forum posts of his hacking abilities using the Russian Crakz hacking program. He has edited and deleted these posts about his hacking abilities so that they can no longer be found on those chat forums. Click here to view Parks' hacking boast posts, copied before he deleted them.
Soon after the dismissal of Ken Parks' baseless pro se lawsuit in 2004, he posted another harassing and extremely libelous web site called Paranoia against family members he's been harassing. This web site also included Ken Parks' apparent reference that he gives money to the poor, needy and elderly and visits those in prison. Federal and state prison officials in Georgia were contacted and provided with Parks' public records and pertinent web site pages dealing with his resentment against police and judges. Victims of Parks' harassment campaign were told by state and federal prison officials that, because of Parks' criminal background, he would not be allowed to visit anyone in prison under the pretense of being a "ministry leader." Like all of Parks' previous web sites, the Paranoia web site was also taken down by the web host company after they were notified of Ken Parks' criminal background, his arrest warrant, and the content of yet another of his harassing and libelous web sites.
Click here for all the pages of Parks' Paranoia web site.
An Atlanta FBI agent warned Parks in 2004 and again in 2005 to stop every and all forms of harassment, and that he was "dangerously close" to being arrested. This same FBI agent brought documentation of Parks' aggressive web site and chat forum harassment, libel and threats to the U.S. Attorneys Office in Atlanta in early 2005 and again in 2006. The victims of Parks' harassment and defamation campaign were informed by the FBI agent that all documentation of Parks' harassment, defamation and threats is forming an ongoing record of evidence in the event Parks is arrested by federal or state authorities. Parks libelously claims that the FBI warned his victims to stop harassing him, but this is not at all true. His victims have been told by the FBI agent that authorities are "keeping an eye" on Parks. His victims continue to turn over documentation to federal and state authorities. In some stalking and harassment cases, it can take years before enough evidence has been submitted in order to issue arrest warrants. The victims of Parks' years' long cyberstalking campaign have a number of advocates who are working to create stronger laws and stronger law enforcement against cyber criminals like Ken Parks.
Suspicious Virus-Infected E-Mails:
In February of 2004, Ken Parks initiated contact with a family member by sending that family member harassing e-mails through that family member's e-mail account at a non-profit archaeological organization to which that family member belongs. That family member had not had any contact with Parks for over fourteen years. That family member filed a complaint with compelling documentation for an arrest warrant against Parks, which was granted by a judge in early June, 2004. That family member also contacted the mayor of Vigevano in order to pass along to Vigevano city employee Bernardino de Vincenzi notice of Ken Parks' harassment and Parks' apparent implication that Vincenzi was posting the libelous kenfactor web site on Parks' behalf. Vincenzi works in the Finance Department of the town of Vigevano. Vincenzi's responses were unprofessional and showed unquestioning support for Parks, despite the illegality of Parks' harassing e-mails and his maliciously defamatory web site content. Vincenzi has also boasted more than once in his e-mails that Parks is "an expert in computers."
Vincenzi claimed in his e-mails that he has nothing to do with the defamatory and libelous content of Parks' kenfactor web site, yet a July 2004 kenfactor article proved otherwise.
Soon after Parks' harassing e-mails were sent to that family member and that family member notified Vincenzi of Parks' illegal activities, that family member received five virus-infected e-mails at the non-profit e-mail address. All but one of those virus-infected e-mails originated from e-mail accounts using Telecom Italia. All five virus-infected e-mails remained unopened. Click here for copies of headers of the 5 virus-infected e-mails. The third virus-infected e-mail used a northern Italian town government e-mail address. This third virus-infected e-mail was sent while Parks was visiting Vincenzi in northern Italy. The last two of the five virus-infected e-mails sent used a Telecom Italia e-mail address and a German e-mail address. These last two virus-infected e-mails were sent only hours after Parks was notified of the warrant for his arrest for harassment.
In July of 2004, a collaborative website titled therealkenparks.com was created to issue warnings against Parks and to clear many people's names of all the maliciously defamatory statements Parks had made against them in his kentoday and kenfactor web sites. Within days, Parks boasted on a chat forum that he had not only brought down therealkenparks.com web site but also the non-profit archaeological web site posted by the same web host company. A denial of service attack was presumed, but the web host company did not want to expend the time and the resources to pursue reporting it. Nonetheless, the web host company helped the owners of therealkenparks.com find a larger web host company that could withstand potential denial of service attacks. Parks and Vincenzi responded to the continuance of therealkenparks.com web site by making fraudulent and libelous complaints to the second web host company which posted therealkenparks.com web site. Due to the fraudulent and libelous complaint Vincenzi made to the second web host company, therealkenparks.com web site was removed without the web host company conducting any examination of the factual contents within that web site. In Vincenzi's fraudulent and libelous complaint, he falsely claimed that therealkenparks.com web site defamed both Vigevano and Chicago. Furthermore, Vincenzi falsely claimed that he was in contact with Mayor Daley of Chicago, other Chicago officials, and with former U.S. Secretary of State Madeleine Albright When contacted, no Chicago official mentioned in Vincenzi's e-mail had received any contact from him in recent time, and certainly not in relation to therealkenparks.com web site. In fact, one of the Chicago officials he named had been retired for a few years.
As a result of Vincenzi's apparent approval of and likely involvement in Parks' harassment and libel campaign (despite his statements to the contrary), Vincenzi's name is included in FBI records of complaint against Ken Parks.
In September, 2004, victims of Parks and Vincenzi's libel and harassment campaign sent certified cc'ed letters with documentation to Vincenzi. Certified cc'ed letters with documentation were also sent to numerous Italian and U.S. officials. The U.S. embassy in Milan and the Italian embassy in New York responded to the letters sent to them of complaints made against both Parks and Vincenzi. Although they have no legal authority to act against either men, they provided names of attorneys who practice both Italian and U.S. law, in the event that legal recourse may need to be pursued against Parks and/or Vincenzi.
Click here for a copy of certified letter sent to Vincenzi.
Click here for copies of letters from embassies.
Other Court Judgments Against Ken Parks:
In 1990, the Small Claims Court of New London, Connecticut issued a judgment against Ken Parks for the amount of $1,678.10, brought against Parks by a family member for his refusal to repay a loan. (This family member was the same person Parks sent harassing e-mails to and against whom he issued his baseless and harassing pro se lawsuit in 2004.) The loan to Parks from his family member was issued completely in check form, with "loan to pay bills" clearly written in the memo section of each check. Incredulously, during the court hearing Parks accused his family member of making someone in her credit union allow her to write "loan to pay bills" on the checks after Parks had cashed them. After the judgment was issued against Parks, he fled the state of Connecticut to parts unknown for many years, and consequently his family member never collected the judgment amount.
In a harassing letter and postcard Parks sent to this same family member in May 2004 while he was visiting with Bernardino "Dino" de Vincenzi in Italy, Parks mockingly requested that this family member send him "another $1,600 USD." He also included "Dino's telephone number" with Telecom Italia. This harassing letter and postcard was mailed one day before a virus-infected e-mail, with the northern Italian government e-mail address, was received by the same family member.
Addressing Parks' Claims on His ETC Ministries Website:
Parks asserts that he is not a cult leader and that his "ministry" is not a cult. After viewing the claims in Parks' ETC Ministries web site, the following is offered for readers' thoughtful consideration:
1. Cult leaders typically claim that they have exclusive teachings on the "truth" and that they have exclusive knowledge of their god's messages. As an apparent attempt to bolster these claims, they typically attack and criticize others with accusations or implications that other people are deceivers, lack special, exclusive wisdom and are overall inferior to themselves.
2. Cult leaders typically act as lone wolves and demonstrate defensiveness, such as when asked about financial matters.
3. Cult leaders typically claim they are morally right, even morally superior to others, but demonstrate the opposite. Click here for Parks' boast of his drunkenness and his "soft" pornographic photo of a woman he claims to have dated in Italy.
4. Cult leaders typically show suspicion and disrespect for others in authority, even to the point of boasting about breaking civil laws.
5. Cult leaders may try to validate their "ministry" by claiming notoriety in a public forum, such as in media coverage. Parks claims that he was interviewed as an audience member by CNN en Espanol in 2004 after a theater viewing of The Passion of the Christ movie. A family member made several efforts to get CNN en Espanol to confirm whether Parks' claims were true. All initial contacts with CNN and CNN en Espanol confirmed that no such interview ever occurred. Consequently, CNN's legal department referred the inquiries to the video storage facility in Mexico which CNN en Espanol uses. In a last attempt to find a copy of Parks' alleged interview, the family member contacted the video storage company in Mexico, and the e-mail response received from CNN en Espanol's video storage facility in Mexico indicates that they had no record of any interview with Parks. Nonetheless, Parks asserts that he has a video from CNN showing his interview with CNN en Espanol, and subsequent contact with CNN's legal department indicates that he may have been interviewed after all. Regardless, if an interview of Parks did ever take place involving CNN en Espanol, it does NOT in any way validate or give legitimacy to Parks' claims of being a "teacher of the Word" or a "ministry leader."
CONCLUSION:
It is unfortunate that there is a need to post this public warning web site regarding Ken Parks' persistent and aggressive harassment, libel and defamation against numerous people. The need for this web site to be posted would not exist if current laws were enforced to stop Ken Parks from committing his ongoing criminal behavior via the Internet. It is especially alarming that Ken Parks, who has such a long-term and ongoing criminal record, is claiming to operate a "ministry" to vulnerable people in Georgia and that he is portraying himself as a "ministry leader" and "teacher of the Word." Various family members and former friends have all tried to reason with Parks for many years to get him to stop his apparent raging, unjustified hatred and malice against so many people, but all of these efforts have been met with increased harassment by Parks. Consequently, family members and former friends have distanced themselves from Parks, but to no avail. Parks has resorted to "spoofing" his victims' e-mails addresses after those people blocked his real e-mail address. He openly admits to deception and just as openly claims that his use of deception is justified. People have tried repeatedly to ignore Parks, yet he has made it very clear to people in both words and actions that he refuses to be ignored.
In the summer of 2004, former friends of Ken Parks held a reunion, and because Parks had issued threats to disrupt the reunion to "expose" people's "sins," a security guard was set in place at the reunion. The Connecticut State Police, which already had the arrest warrant issued against Parks, were also put on notice regarding his threats in case he showed up at the reunion.
Click here for Parks' spoofed e-mail statements to his former friends in 2005.
Ken Parks' family members, his ex-family members, his former friends and many of those who have had any contact with him represent a wide variety of political and religious opinions. But one opinion on which there is common agreement is the belief that Ken Parks is not mentally stable and that he is dangerous. Nonetheless, people also believe that Parks knows full well that his actions violate moral and civil laws, and that he is deliberately lying against people so as to intimidate, aggravate, and publicly defame. Several efforts have been made by family members to persuade Parks to seek spiritual counseling and mental health evaluation. Although state agencies have offered suggestions and sympathy, it would appear that Parks' apparent abnormal and disturbing behavior would have to be imminently life-threatening in order for him to receive involuntary treatment. Nonetheless, those who have been harassed and attacked by Ken Parks do believe that he poses a danger, as proved by his unverified ETC Ministries claims, his ongoing libelous harassment, his current fugitive-status arrest warrant, and his previous arrests and conviction for battery and trespassing.
As long as Ken Parks persists in his claims of being a financially unaccountable "ministry leader" to vulnerable people, making fraudulent claims of being a professional photographer, has unregistered businesses, and as long as he persists in his libelous and defamatory attacks against people via web sites, chat forums or in any other way, then this web site will have to continue to be posted so that people can make an informed decision about Parks and his ETC Ministries based upon the facts and reasonable opinions expressed herein.
Updates will be added to this web site as they become available.
If anyone reading this website has been harassed or otherwise victimized by Ken Parks and/or Bernardino "Dino" de Vincenzi, or any other persons in support of Ken Parks, then permission is granted to print the contents of this web site, in whole or in part, to present to law enforcement officials, legal representatives and/or other appropriate parties.