Alaska Church Leader Charged For Felony Child Sexual Abuse
A board member in a Ketchikan church is facing multiple felony counts of sexual assault of a minor. Seventy-one-year-old Dwight Chris John of Ketchikan faces 14 charges of first, second, and third-degree sexual abuse of a minor, and three related class C felony charges. Via KRDB.org:
Alaska State Troopers say John sexually abused a minor when he visited the child’s community on Prince of Wales Island, or when the child came to visit him in Ketchikan.
[...] In a forensic interview, the child told investigators that the abuse would often happen when John would read a bedtime story to the child, or was otherwise alone with them.
John corroborated “nearly all” of the claims during an interview with investigators. He said that the abuse began when the child was five or six. John also said that he did it because the victim wanted him to, and QUOTE, “it was all for” the child, and QUOTE “it wasn’t for me.”
During a phone call between John and the child’s father — monitored by law enforcement — John “corroborated all of the events” that the child alleged, according to the documents.
Once again, religion was the fertile ground for sexual abuse to take root -- and rationalize it. The child WANTED him to. Well, I'm sure fellow inmates won't be as willing to accept that explanation as other evangelicals.