A former music director at Bellingham Baptist Church must serve time in prison for molesting a girl for years, a Superior Court judge has ruled.
Judge Raquel Montoya-Lewis sentenced
Paul Michael Bane to 5 years in prison, the same amount of time she
handed the church’s youth pastor, Christopher Trent, a month ago in a separate case of long-term sex abuse of a different girl.
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An investigator with the Department of Corrections noted that in the
police interview the young woman didn’t know basic sexual terms, or
basic things about female anatomy. She seemed sheltered, and appeared
Bane had groomed her for sexual abuse. He treated her with affection he
did not show other children. He would buy her gifts, candy, or food.
After Bane abused her, he would apologize.
In the victim’s version, the abuse
mostly stopped after 4 ½ years, though there were two more instances of
sexual contact when she was a young adult.
Former music director at Bellingham church molested girl for years | The Bellingham Herald
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