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Crime History: TV preacher Jimmy Swaggart caught with prostitute for second time

October 10, 2012 | 6:00 pm
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On this day, Oct. 11, in 1991, television preacher Jimmy Swaggart was found, for the second time, in the company of a prostitute when he was pulled over by the California Highway Patrol for driving on the wrong side of the road.

The California incident came three and a half years after he gave his infamous "I have sinned" speech, after he was secretly photographed with a prostitute at a seedy New Orleans motel.

Caught with a hooker for the second time in less than four years, Swaggart told his congregation that "demon spirts" were responsible for his troubles.

Swaggart's television ministry continues airing around the world.

- Scott McCabe