TULSA (OK)
KJRH
TULSA – Prosecutors say pastors at Tulsa megachurch Victory Christian Center were, in fact, required by law to report child sex abuse to authorities, contrary to what the pastors’ attorney claims in court documents.
Attorneys for the state of Oklahoma have responded to a motion to dismiss charges against youth pastors John and Charica Daughtery.
The two, along with three other church leaders, were charged with failure to report child abuse after waiting two weeks before reporting the rape of a 13-year old girl and other sex crimes. All five have pleaded not guilty.
The Daughertys, along with Paul Willemstein, Anna Alisa George and Harold Frank Sullivan, were suspended by church administrators for not following Victory’s policy regarding child abuse. They have since been reinstated and returned to work.
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