Conviction Christian institutions & contexts Other or denomination not established Great Bend, Kansas, USA · 1925

United States (1925): Kansas pastor's statutory-rape conviction affirmed — victim 'whose spiritual mentor he was'

Record class

Core record

Evidence status

Convicted

Authority role

pastor of a leading Protestant church in Great Bend

Organization

No organization assigned

Spiritual nexus

The opinion states the criterion in 1925 language: her spiritual mentor, her church-society supervisor.

Evidence structure

Proceedings

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.

pastoral supervision of a young congregant who was an officer of a church society under his direction

Primary record

official court judgment appellate judgment State v. Waldron, 118 Kan. 641, 236 P. 855 (Kan. 1925).: The appellate opinion.

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