ILLINOIS
Naperville Sun
BY BILL BIRD wbird@stmedianetwork.com January 20, 2012
A onetime minister and community college professor convicted of sexually molesting a girl from Naperville could be sentenced Friday to as much as seven years in prison for his crimes.
DuPage County Circuit Court Judge Daniel P. Guerin will decide the fate of James W. French, 64, the founding pastor of an upstate church and an adjunct professor of U.S. history and Western and Eastern civilization at Rock Valley College in Rockford.
The victim’s father on Wednesday told Guerin how French sexually abused his daughter “for about a year, in multiple counties and states.” The girl “eventually came to believe that if she did not say something, at some point what happened to her would most likely happen” to her siblings, the father said in a written, victim impact statement.
Note: This is an Abuse Tracker excerpt. Click the title to view the full text of the original article. If the original article is no longer available, see our News Archive.