United States (1925): Kansas pastor's statutory-rape conviction affirmed — victim 'whose spiritual mentor he was'
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1925
Affirmed (118 Kan. 641).
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pastor of a leading Protestant church in Great Bend
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The opinion states the criterion in 1925 language: her spiritual mentor, her church-society supervisor.
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1925-01-01 · conviction affirmed
Kansas Supreme Court (State v. Waldron, 118 Kan. 641, 236 P. 855). John Waldron, pastor of a leading Protestant church in Great Bend, was convicted on three counts of statutory rape of a girl under eighteen who, in the Kansas Supreme Court's own words, 'was a member of his church and was also an officer of one of the affiliated church societies under Waldron's supervision' — a young woman 'whose spiritual mentor he was'. The court affirmed.
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- pastoral supervision of a young congregant who was an officer of a church society under his direction
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- official court judgment appellate judgment State v. Waldron, 118 Kan. 641, 236 P. 855 (Kan. 1925).
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