OHIO
Times-Journal
By Michelle Chalfant Times-Journal Writer
Dennis V. Wright, 67, was found guilty by a jury of his peers on 14 of the 15 sex related charges involving a total of three victims.
Wright was found guilty of sexually abusing a teenage girl who lived in the area, a mentally challenged adult woman, and another church member, during a time when Wright served as the pastor of the Old Emory Church on Jimes Emory Road in Madison Township.
One of the victims was his own son, who at 37 years of age now, was only 10 years old at the time of the crime dating back to 1989 and 1990.
Wright was convicted of assaulting the teenage girl on many occasions between 2012 and 2015 and the mentally challenged adult in both 2009 and 2010. It was during the investigation that the Jackson County Sheriff’s Office and the Attorney General’s Bureau of Criminal Investigation (BCI) uncovered the third victim, Wright’s son.
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