TILTON (NH)
Laconia Citizen
TILTON, N.H. (AP) - Members of Trinity Episcopal Church continue to get bad news.
First, they learned a church member was charged with molesting children and stealing money from a church food bank, then the pastor resigned, and now comes word that a former treasurer is charged with stealing more than $100,000 in church money.
Christine Hersom, 40, of Sanbornton was the church treasurer from 1995 to 2001. It's a volunteer position, but police say that during that time, Hersom paid herself $13,500 and paid for personal expenses with church money.
Police say the charges against Hersom are not related to the resignation of the Rev. Janet Lombardo. She resigned in April, about a month after church member Scott Nash was arrested on the child molestation charges.