TULSA (OK)
Tulsa World
By JERRY WOFFORD World Staff Writer
Published: 11/1/2012
The Victory Christian Center employees who are accused of failing to report allegations of sex crimes against children for more than two weeks had a legal obligation to do so, and any argument to the contrary “flies in the face of both common sense and common decency,” prosecutors said.
Assistant District Attorney Sarah Mc-Amis filed that court response Wednesday to a motion to dismiss the misdemeanor charges against John and Charica Daugherty, both youth ministers at Victory Christian Center.
The Daughertys – Senior Pastor Sharon Daugherty’s son and daughter-in-law – were charged along with three other church employees in September with failing to report child abuse. Tulsa County prosecutors say they waited two weeks to tell authorities about allegations that a 13-year-old girl was raped at the south Tulsa megachurch in August.
Chris Denman, 20, a former employee at the church, pleaded guilty Monday to six felonies – first-degree rape, forcible oral sodomy, lewd molestation, making a lewd proposal to a child and two counts of using a computer to facilitate a sex crime. He is accused of raping a 13-year-old girl and committing other sex crimes involving a 15-year-old and a 12-year-old, court records show. His sentencing is scheduled for Dec. 12.
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