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Victory Christian staff members released early from jail sentence
Tulsa World ^ | JARREL WADE

Posted on 04/13/2013 7:18:33 PM PDT by Morgana

Two Victory Christian Center staff members who were sentenced to 30 days in jail last month for failure to report the rape of a 13-year-old girl for two weeks are out early, jail records show.

Paul Howard Willemstein and Anna Alisa George have returned to work at the church and issued a statement to the Tulsa World through their attorney, Matthew Chesbro.

"I spoke with my clients and they asked that I tell you they are 'grateful for the completion of this part of the process and hope healing can continue for everyone affected,' " Chesbro said in an email Thursday.

On March 18, Willemstein and George were led from the Tulsa County District Courthouse in handcuffs after they entered no-contest pleas to failure to report child abuse. Tulsa County Special Judge Bill Hiddle found them guilty of the misdemeanor charge.

Willemstein, 33, and George, 25, spent 15 days in the Tulsa Jail because they were given "two-for-one time" for working in the jail as trusties, Tulsa County Sheriff's Office Maj. Shannon Clark said. Trusties work within the jail doing tasks such as cleaning, he said.

(Excerpt) Read more at tulsaworld.com ...


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KEYWORDS: child; church; rape
30 days? Should have been 30 years
1 posted on 04/13/2013 7:18:33 PM PDT by Morgana
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have returned to work at the church
2 posted on 04/13/2013 7:26:25 PM PDT by PAR35
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“have returned to work at the church”

So they can not report more rapes.


3 posted on 04/13/2013 7:44:21 PM PDT by Morgana (Always a bit of truth in dark humor.)
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wow. They got those jobs back?


4 posted on 04/13/2013 7:50:21 PM PDT by GeronL (http://asspos.blogspot.com)
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For some strange reason yes. What a church to let them.


5 posted on 04/13/2013 7:59:08 PM PDT by Morgana (Always a bit of truth in dark humor.)
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30 days? Should have been 30 years

It's appalling.
6 posted on 04/13/2013 8:21:16 PM PDT by highball ("I never should have switched from scotch to martinis." -- the last words of Humphrey Bogart)
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To: Morgana

Sounds like a mosque...not a Christian church


7 posted on 04/14/2013 3:02:01 AM PDT by SeminoleCounty (GOP - Greenlighting Obama's Programs)
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