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Conviction Christian institutions & contexts Evangelical, Pentecostal, and independent Waukegan, Illinois, USA · 1990

United States (1990): pastor's convictions affirmed for abusing two children of a churchgoing family

Record class

Core record

Evidence status

Convicted

Authority role

pastor of the Sunrise Church of God, Waukegan

Organization

Sunrise Church of God, Waukegan

Spiritual nexus

The opinion establishes both halves of the test: his pastorate, and the victims' position as the children of a congregant family in his care — reached through the church's own routines of transport and upkeep.

  • Pastoral or clerical authority

Evidence structure

Proceedings

  1. 1990-01-01 · convictions affirmed; sentence vacated and remanded for resentencing

    Illinois Appellate Court, Second District (People v. Bosley, 197 Ill. App. 3d 215, 553 N.E.2d 1187). Wilmon Bosley, pastor of the Sunrise Church of God in Waukegan, was convicted of aggravated criminal sexual assault and abuse against two sisters aged roughly six and eleven whose family attended his church. The appellate opinion records that the assaults occurred during church-related activity — one in the car as he drove the family to church, another while the elder child was helping clean the church building. The Appellate Court affirmed the convictions in 1990, reversing only the sentence and remanding for resentencing.

Appellate history

  1. 1990 · undefined

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Documented coercion mechanisms

  • driving the family to church, with an assault committed in the car
  • a child assaulted while helping clean the church building

Primary record

Sources

official court judgment appellate judgment People v. Bosley, 197 Ill. App. 3d 215, 553 N.E.2d 1187 (Ill. App. Ct., 2d Dist. 1990).

The appellate opinion affirming the convictions.

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