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Conviction Christian institutions & contexts Evangelical, Pentecostal, and independent Major County, Oklahoma, USA · 1947

United States (1947): revival minister's conviction affirmed for abusing a boy entrusted by his mother

Record class

Core record

Evidence status

Convicted

Authority role

minister of the Gospel conducting a revival

Organization

No organization assigned

Spiritual nexus

A mother handed her son to the visiting revival minister overnight because of what he was — the trust was the office's.

  • Pastoral or clerical authority

Evidence structure

Proceedings

  1. 1947-01-01 · conviction affirmed

    Oklahoma Criminal Court of Appeals (Cole v. State, 84 Okla. Crim. 76, 179 P.2d 176). Kenneth Isaac Cole, a minister conducting a revival in Major County, was convicted of sodomy against a fourteen-year-old boy whose family attended his revival services — he obtained the mother's consent for the boy to stay overnight with him — and sentenced to two and a half years. The appellate court affirmed in 1947.

Appellate history

  1. 1947 · undefined

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Documented coercion mechanisms

  • the mother's consent for the boy to stay overnight, obtained through his ministerial standing

Primary record

Sources

official court judgment appellate judgment Cole v. State, 84 Okla. Crim. 76, 179 P.2d 176 (Okla. Crim. App. 1947).

The appellate opinion.

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