HAWAII
West Hawaii Today
By JOHN BURNETT
Tribune-Herald staff writer
jburnett@hawaiitribune-herald.com
A 69-year-old Ocean View man awaiting trial for allegedly molesting two underage girls was a deacon and youth mentor for a church in the remote Ka‘u community for at least a part of the time the abuse was alleged to have occurred.
Nicholas “Nick” Krivanek was “removed” from those positions at Ocean View Evangelical Community Church after “he confessed” to the church’s elders in 2011, according to Larry Fisher, who was secretary of the elders at that time.
“I’m not sure the church (congregation) was informed until after he was arrested,” Fisher said on Tuesday. “The pastor informed every church member after he was arrested a couple of Sundays ago.” Fisher said the meeting took place after Sunday service.
Fisher said Krivanek is “still a member of the church.”
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