Three Victory Christian Center Employees Due in Court Today

By Jerry Wofford
The World
March 18, 2013

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Two of three Victory Christian Center employees charged with failing to report child abuse will spend time in jail.

Paul Howard Willemstein, Anna Alisa George and Harold Frank Sullivan entered no contest pleas on Monday to single counts of failure to report child abuse. The three had waived their right to a jury trial last month.

Willemstein and George were ordered to spend 30 days in jail with the remainder of their one-year terms suspended.

Sullivan also received a one-year suspended sentence, but was not ordered to spend any time in jail.

The maximum penalty for the misdemeanor charge is up to a year in jail.

Chris Denman, 20, pleaded guilty last year to six felony child-sex charges, including the rape of a 13-year-old girl. He was sentenced to 55 years in prison.

Prosecutors allege the Victory Christian staffers knew about the incident, but failed to report it to authorities for several weeks.

The second suspect, Israel Shalom Castillo, 23, was charged with making a lewd or indecent proposal over Facebook to a 14-year-old girl, according to court records. He has pleaded not guilty and faces a jury trial scheduled in August. John and Charica Daugherty, son and daughter-in-law of Victory Christian Senior Pastor Sharon Daugherty, were also charged with one count each of failure to report child abuse. They are set for a jury trial sounding docket on May 10.