Popular Michigan contemporary Christian radio DJ fired after arrest on child sex charges

MICHIGAN
The Raw Story

By Tom Boggioni
Sunday, June 22, 2014

A popular Christian disc jockey has been terminated, following his arrest Friday afternoon at a Christian music festival, on a sexual assault on a minor charge.

John Balyo, 35, of Caledonia, was arrested at the Big Ticket Festival, one of the nation’s largest Christian music events, Battle Creek police confirmed to WZZM-13.

Balyo, a graduate of Cornerstone University, a Christian college located in Grand Rapids, was employed for the past eight years as an on-air personality at contemporary Christian radio station WCSG affiliated with Cornerstone .

According to Battle Creek police Sgt. Jim Marten, Balyo’s name was given to investigators by Ronald Moser of Battle Creek, who was runs website offering paying customers sex with underage boys. Earlier this month, police raided Moser’s home, where they discovered him with a 12-year-old boy and a stash of child pornography.

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