Sunday, August 12, 2018

UPDATED::Wichita church sued over alleged sex abuse by youth pastor | The Wichita Eagle

UPDATE::  Former Wichita youth pastor pleads guilty to sex crimes against teenage girl
A former Wichita youth pastor pleaded guilty Friday to having sex with a 15-year-old girl while he worked at Word of Life Church. 

Chauncey Walker, a 48-year-old former youth pastor, teacher and girl’s soccer coach at Word of Life, will now have to register with the state of Kansas as a sex offender for crimes involving the girl, now 20, committed between May 2012 and May 2013.

Walker was originally charged with aggravated indecent liberties and two counts of criminal sodomy against a 15-year-old girl after police received what a Facebook tipster claimed was a taped admission from Walker.
UPDATE::  Youth pastor had sex with 15-year-old. Asks her to say it was her idea, report says
A Wichita youth pastor began having sex with a church member right after she turned 15 and asked her to say she was older when it started and “that she had come on to him,” says an affidavit filed by a sheriff’s detective.

The criminal case against 48-year-old Chauncey Walker began this past August with a tip to the Wichita Police Department’s Facebook page. Detective Daniel Ribble, with the Exploited and Missing Child Unit, learned that the tipster obtained a taped admission from Walker, says the affidavit, received by The Eagle late Tuesday through a court record request.

The Eagle has previously reported on the taped admission after receiving a copy from an attorney for the alleged victim. Now 20, she is suing Word of Life Ministries and Schools Inc., senior minister Robert Rotola Sr. and his son, church school administrator Robert Rotola Jr. The lawsuit alleges that the church and the Rotolas neglected to supervise Walker, failed to fully investigate concerns about him and tried to cover up the allegations. In a court document, the church and the Rotolas have denied the allegations.
A man used his position as a Wichita church youth pastor to sexually abuse a teenage girl for three years – and the church and its senior minister are at fault, a new lawsuit says.

The youth pastor raped and sexually abused her “at least two to four times a week from June 2012 to June 2015,” the lawsuit says. In all, it says, he violated her at least 288 times.

The lawsuit contends that the church neglected to supervise the youth pastor, failed to fully investigate concerns about him and tried to cover up the allegations.

The man who was the youth pastor – Chauncey M. Walker, 48 – has remained in jail since August. He was arrested and charged with aggravated indecent liberties with a child and two counts of criminal sodomy. The crimes listed in the charges occurred between around May 22, 2012, and May 23, 2013. The girl was 15 at the time. Walker is being held on a $100,000 bond.

Read more here: http://www.kansas.com/news/local/crime/article203098939.html#storylink=cpy

Read more here: http://www.kansas.com/news/local/crime/article203098939.html#storylink=cpy

Wichita church sued over alleged sex abuse by youth pastor | The Wichita Eagle

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