KENTUCKY
Lex 18
A Wayne County pastor entered a guilty plea to more than a dozen charges of sexual abuse, but he is not going to jail.
Gerald Dishman admitted in court Tuesday to sexually abusing two sisters when they were very young back in the 1980’s and early 90’s.
Dishman was originally indicted on 13 first degree rape charges back in 2011, but the charges were lessened so the case wouldn’t have to go to trial.
LEX 18 News talked to one of the victims of this sexual abuse last year.
Becky, who asked us at the time not to use her last name, said she just wanted to see justice done. But circumstances of the case made it clear that with only so much evidence, accepting a lesser guilty plea might be safer than letting the case go to trial.
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