CHICAGO (IL)
Chicago Tribune
Steve Schmadeke
Chicago Tribune
A longtime South Side pastor was charged with sexually abusing a 16-year-old girl in his office during a counseling session in 2014.
Prosecutors said the alleged victim and her mother confronted George Waddles, 67, who heads Zion Hill Missionary Baptist Church, and secretly recorded his admissions to inappropriately touching the teen.
Waddles turned himself in to Chicago police Tuesday and made “a positive disclosure” to a detective that was consistent with the girl’s story, said Assistant State’s Attorney Tara Pease-Harkin. He was charged with aggravated criminal sexual abuse, a Class 2 felony that carries a sentence of up to seven years in prison or probation on conviction.
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