Days after it was revealed in court that former worship pastor and ‘American Idol’ alum Caleb Flynn texted his mistress his dark fantasies about killing his wife, he has been sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole.
During the trial, Prosecutor Paul Watkins revealed that Flynn had been engaged in a long-term affair and had sent his mistress more than 100,000 text messages in the year leading up to his wife’s death, saying things like:
“I was up until 4 a.m. last night crying, literally trying to think of ways to kill her and not go to jail.”
and
“If I could literally kill her and not go to hell, I would do it in a heartbeat. That is how dark and how hateful I feel.”
On the night before Ashley was murdered, Flynn texted his mistress:
“I choose you. I’m free. Actions will come tomorrow, February 16, a day I’ll never forget.”
Now, he’ll die in prison.
Tragically, his family read victim impact statements to a weeping Flynn, including from his 12-year-old and 10-year-old daughters, who begged him him to confess and repent of his sin, saying in part:
…Daddy, affairs are a big sin. But there is still a chance. There’s a choice for everything in life. All you have to do is tell God that you’re sorry and that you want to confess and repent to Him. I promise you it won’t take away your punishment, but you will have a life in heaven someday. I cry and cry every day, and my heart breaks to see the people I love hurt.
I’ve seen images, pictures and videos of you everywhere on YouTube. My heart aches to see you hurt. But then I think it was your choice. It was your choice to have an affair. It was your choice to go off with that dirty girl. It was your choice to leave the perfect woman, Ashley. It was your choice to lie to everyone. It was your choice to leave your only two daughters. It was your choice to hide everything from everyone.
And it was your choice to kill the only mother I’ve ever had. Unfortunately, that was a choice that cannot be erased, even though I really wish it could. And look, you and Aliyah sinned big time, but you still have a chance to tell God that you are sorry. I pray every night for you and Aliyah to confess to Jesus that you sinned. And this is my prayer every night.
“Dear Jesus, thank you for dying on the cross for us and for our many blessings. Jesus, I pray that you would help Daddy and Aliyah to repent to you and confess that they sinned. Please help them to realize what they’ve done, to stop lying, and to tell the truth to you. In Jesus’ name, amen.”
I promise you, Daddy, that is every single night. Please tell Jesus that you’re sorry. And as I said before, it’s not going to change your punishment, but it will determine your eternal reward someday. Remember, there’s still a chance. There’s a choice for everything. I hope you will bring Jesus back into your heart.
Love, Ava
and, from his other daughter:
…I love you deeply with all my heart, and it’s sad you can’t love anyone but yourself….please, you have already caused so much pain to your family and the world. The least you could do is tell everyone you did it and receive your outcome. Also, please repent to God, the one who created you. Your time isn’t over. Did you really even think about how much pain you would bring your own two daughters?
By the way, Ashley Flynn was the best thing that ever happened to you. You had the best life ever. And you decided to throw it away for a girl who was half your age. How could you stand in that church and sing about how much you love God when you knew all the secrets you had inside? And watch your girls cheering you on and your wife, who believed in you so much and loved you more than life itself?
You truly don’t understand how much you hurt my life. And I wish you could feel the pain I have been through. Something so tragic and to know that it was my father was just shocking. You made me feel like an idiot thinking that I could trust you.
But God has been working through me and I have changed. Also, our family has never been stronger. And through all of what you put me through, God is going to work something out for good. And by the way, I don’t plan on coming to see you.
For his, Flynn refused to take responsibility and claimed someone else did it, pleading for his innocence.
6 responses to “Caleb Flynn Sentenced To Life in Prison For Murdering Wife: Daughters Beg Him to Confess and Repent of His Sins”
something to keep in mind – there really are those who profess to be Christians but are in reality wolves among the sheep.
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Very good and powerful statements from those two young ladies. If anyone has the right to be focused on themselves and their own pain, suffering, and loss, it’s them. But instead they focused directly on the Gospel, on the self-centeredness, self-love, and sexual immorality – the sin at the beginning of it, and on their father’s eternal fate. Those two young ladies nailed it, pretty much. Now what they’re going to have to do is turn away from their father, as scripture instructs. And they need to accept the fact that their father just may be one who is condemned from long ago (Jude, 2 Pet. 2), and/or given to strong delusion to ensure he will be condemned (2 Thess. 2:11-12). He’s in a far worse state than he was before (Heb 10), and it is very possible that their father is too far gone, and that for him there is no redemption. That he was shown sufficient grace and will be shown no more. They’ve said exactly what needed to be said. Now they need to let the Lord handle it. Forget that wicked man even exists. At eternal scope and perspective, he is more dead than their mother. So let the dead bury their own dead.
They need to face the very difficult and painful truth that their father never loved them, and not waste the rest of their lives trying to salvage something that doesn’t exist. If he ever loved them, he would never have committed the adultery much less murdered their mother. And that is the truth. Honor what scripture says to do (Matt. 18, 1 Cor. 5, 2 Tim. 3, etc.) and turn away …
This is the fruit of sin. It is the fruit of sensuality and sexual immorality. All manner of suffering, misery, pain, disease, death inflicted on others. In this case, inflicted on his own wife and daughters. The wicked world shouts “it’s love”, as the contrary irrefutable evidence, now and throughout all of history, stares them right in the face. It is not love. Sin is never loving. Sin is never good. Nothing good ever results from sin. As Romans 1 clearly says, this truth is plainly evident and all are without excuse.
Notice 2 Tim. 3:1-9, the contrast is the love of pleasure vs the love of God. We know and understand that the love of others falls squarely under, and is dependent on, the love of God (Matt. 22:37-40, 1 John 5:1-5, Etc.). But there is a form of love, an appearance of love, a false love that pretends concern for others but at the root of it is only self-concern, which falls under the love of pleasure. It’s a false love that is focused on one’s own gratification, feelings, pleasure and comfort. It reduces others to nothing but “things” that exist solely for one’s own pleasure and gratification and what they want for themselves out of this temporal life.
Inasmuch as this father may claim, or even believe, that he loved and loves his daughters, the extent of it was and is that false love, which isn’t love at all. His measure of what was loving and what wasn’t was focused solely on what made him feel good, what gave him gratification and pleasure. It’s a very self-centered, self-absorbed notion of love that truly isn’t love at all. It’s far closer to hate, just as he said that he hated his wife. He also truly hated his daughters. If he did not, he would not have done what he did.
But he first hated the Lord … (John 15:18) (loving pleasure instead – again 2 Tim. 3:4).
One who does not first love the Lord cannot love others. One who fails to honor that first greatest commandment cannot possibly ever honor the second. There is no love in sin. Where there is sin, there is no love …
Now these ladies need to shun him, turn away from him, and have nothing to do with him, so that he may be brought to true repentance. Do not associate. Do not visit. Do not call. Do not answer letters. “Your eye shall not pity”. Do not reward his wickedness. Do what scripture says to do. The Lord knows best how to bring the wicked to repentance. Know and face the truth that the man never loved his wife or children. Face the fact that their love for their father is not reciprocal and never has been. So do what the Lord says to do in His word, and turn away, so that the Lord may draw him to true repentance, if it be His will.
i’m sorry to say, but someone else wrote those statements for the girls. No child calls their mother by their first name and writes “your wife” and “that perfect woman Ashley.” He deserves to be taken out back and killed the way he killed their mother, but something was very off about those statements.
Agreed