OREGON
The Oregonian

By Rick Bella | The Oregonian/OregonLive
on April 16, 2015

Women who waited 18 years to accuse their former pastor of sexual abuse got their day in court Thursday.

One by one, five women who grew up in the communal North Clackamas Bible Community told a Multnomah County jury that Pastor Mike Sperou regularly took advantage of them in the 1980s and 1990s, when they were as young as 4.

Jessica Watson, now a Southeast Portland photographer, testified that she once fell asleep on Sperou’s bed after the two had watched a movie on his big-screen television, then woke up to him rubbing against her.

Afterward, he inserted his finger into her vagina, said Watson, now 33.

“He talked to me, telling me things like, ‘Doesn’t that feel good?’ ”

In an unusual turn of events, Watson is not the alleged victim in Sperou’s criminal…