March 2007 Minister took porn pics of teenage boy A Berrylands church minister has been jailed for taking nude pictures of an underage male congregation member. Barry McKaine, 42, a married minister at the Vineyard Church, operating in New Malden and Putney, asked the teenager to strip and pose naked with a tape measure. Prosecuting, Carolyn Graham said that McKaine had caught the boy smoking, drinking and looking at soft pornography, but had told him he would not tell his parents. McKaine, who was ordained minister in 2005 after giving up his job as a freelance IT contractor, asked if the boy would consider modelling for money. He said he was doing a photography course and wanted some nude shots and they agreed a fee of £100. When the boy turned up at McKaine’s house in September last year, a camera and tripod were already set up. Mrs Graham said: “He said he did not feel comfortable about modelling in the nude, saying he was worried he would lose his dignity. McKaine said You’ve probably already lost it’ – referring to what he had found him doing.” But McKaine, who was an assistant leader at the church and also responsible for finance, almost immediately repented his crime. He deleted the photos on the same day they were taken and confessed all to John Mumford, senior leader at Vineyard. He was immediately suspended from the church and Mr Mumford called the police. The Vineyard is an association of Evangelical churches founded in America in the 1970s, attracting the singer Bob Dylan among its members. The south-west London branch, where McKaine was a minister, has a congregation of more than 400 and runs an office in Blagdon Road, New Malden. It holds church services at rented space at Elliott School in Pullman Gardens, Putney, and the Community Church in Werter Road, Putney. Mr Mumford said the church did an advanced police safety check on McKaine when he started work at the church. He said: “We have treated this matter extremely seriously. Staff and members of the church have naturally been saddened by this situation and we have continued to seek counsel throughout, while also providing support for the family.” McKaine, of Sandhurst Avenue, has two adopted children, aged 10 and five. After a six-month investigation, social services said it was happy for the children to remain there. He has been banned from working with children and put on the sex offenders register. He was jailed for six months and is likely to serve three. In his defence, Nicholas Dunham told the court that McKaine had been abused as a child and in times of stress looked at pornographic images of adults. He said: “When he’s depressed, he would access adult pornography. He has no idea how the incident happened, but he had a genuine interest in photography, which he wanted to develop, added to the interest in pornography.” Asked whether he would welcome McKaine back into the congregation, Mr Mumford said: “In broad terms, of course anybody is welcome to the church, because that is the business we’re in. However, there would need to be certain safety guards in place. We would take advice from the Churches’ Child Protection Advisory Service. “We are in the business of forgiveness, but clearly we have a responsibility to protect the people in our care.” The photographs taken were categorised as level one, the least serious possible as no sexual activity was involved. But Judge Nicholas Jones said a breach of trust had occurred and said McKaine should be jailed because of the premeditated nature of the crime which involved an element of sexual grooming.