Jury selection set to begin in NH church rape case

[Swede]

Jury selection is scheduled to begin Monday in the case of a 15-year-old girl who prosecutors say was raped by a fellow church member and forced to stand before the congregation to apologize for getting pregnant.

Ernest Willis is charged with forcibly raping Christina Anderson twice during the summer of 1997, when she was his children's baby sitter and he was 39. Lawyers for Willis, now 52, say in court documents that he will admit having sex with the girl once but maintains it was consensual.

Prosecutor Wayne Coull said he expects Anderson to be among the first witnesses called when the trial begins May 23 in Merrimack Superior Court. The trial is expected to last four days.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20110516/ap_on_re_us/us_church_rape_case

[Mopar151]

1. Maybe, at last, NH is done with "sweeping it under the rug"

"Their pastor at Trinity Baptist Church in Concord arranged for the teen to live with a Colorado family and put her baby up for adoption."

"Former Trinity Baptist Church Pastor Charles Phelps is on the prosecution's list of witnesses. Anderson told police that Phelps arranged for her to move to Colorado and forced her to write a letter of apology she had to read to the fundamentalist congregation.

She then was told to move into a room in the Phelpses' home until she was to leave for Colorado, which Anderson said happened within days.

Phelps is adamant that he reported the allegations to Concord police and was critical of them for failing to act. Police said they tried to investigate in 1997 but couldn't find Anderson. They didn't locate her until last year, when friends and Internet posts revealed she was living in Arizona under her married name."

For decades, NH cops, AG, securities and bank regulators have "not wanted to hear it", and the results have been ugly - witness Sen Ayotte's response to the $50 mil."FRM Morgatge" scandal, run by a pastor's son, from an office next to the church, while she was our AG.

[damntexdem]

2. If she was 15, then it wasn't consensual.

In effect, he HAS admitted to rape.

[Mopar151]

3. Yeah, he's goi'n under the bus!

The real question is what is to be done with his enablers, who broke all the reporting laws, and the cops, who blew off the investigation.

[mkz77655]

4. +1

[BroccoliTowel]

5. HAHAHAHA

those christians love their rape! YAAAY!