Megachurch workers plead not guilty to ‘covering up rape of girl, 13, for TWO WEEKS’

TULSA (OK)
Daily Mail (United Kingdom)

By Daily Mail Reporter

PUBLISHED:01:03 EST, 27 September 2012

Five suspended Victory Christian Center employees pleaded not guilty to charges of failing to report child abuse in an initial arraignment Wednesday morning related to a sexual abuse case at the church.

Paul Howard Willemstein, 32, associate youth pastor; Anna Alisa George, 24, high school outreach program director; Harold Frank Sullivan, 73, human resources director; Charica Dene Daugherty, 27, assistant senior high youth pastor; and John Samuel Daugherty, 28, senior high youth pastor, are scheduled to appear at a preliminary hearing Oct. 31.

The Victory Christian staff members, including Senior Pastor Sharon Daugherty’s son and daughter-in-law, were suspended from their employment pending disciplinary action.

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