MICHIGAN
Fox 17
[with video]
NOVEMBER 3, 2014, BY ANN MARIE LAFLAMME
OTTAWA COUNTY, Mich.- Two church congregations were recently warned during mass that their youth minister is accused of sexually assaulting a minor more than a decade ago.
The church pastor says the suspect, 61-year-old William Miller, has grown up in St. Catherine’s parish in Ravenna and St. Francis Xavier parish in Conklin and had been a youth minister for at least 7 years.
This decade-old allegation has shocked the church communities.
“What the research is telling us is that probably less than half percent childhood abuse victims actually disclose during childhood, most of them are disclosing actually when they’re adults,” Tom Cottrell Vice President of Counseling Services at the YWCA said.
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