bruce-church (https://bruce-church.myopenid.com/) has left a new comment on your post "The Know-Nothings in Fox Valley, WELS...They Know ...":
Here's another Sergeant Schultz scenario:
Even though church members were tipping off the police about the music director's behavior around young boys, the senior pastor of an ELCA church NW of Madison says he was "shocked" when the police arrested the music director for sex with a 14-year-old boy, and gives the same standard St. Schultz blurb as WELS President Schroeder did about Hochmuth:
"We were unaware of any activities..."
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Man charged with sexually assaulting the same 14-year-old as a Mount Horeb police officer
http://host.madison.com/news/local/crime_and_courts/man-charged-with-sexually-assaulting-the-same--year-old/article_a96cf048-814b-11e2-815c-0019bb2963f4.html#ixzz2MFPxJIOo
"We began receiving some tips from concerned neighbors (about) young men at Gillespie’s condominium late at night," Foulke said. "Then we started also receiving information from the church about some concerns about his activities with young men and his position as the music director."
Gillespie was music director at St. Luke’s Lutheran Church, 7337 Hubbard Ave. The Rev. Roger Eigenfeld, the church’s senior pastor, said Wednesday the church is "shocked" by news about Gillespie.
"We were unaware of any activities that caused the Middleton Police Department to arrest and bring charges against him," Eigenfeld said. "We have been and will continue to cooperate with the authorities as they continue their investigation. And certainly our prayers go out to any who have been hurt."
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St. Luke's--ELCA, Middleton, WI (near Madison):
http://www.stlukes-elca.org/sl_contact.php
map: http://goo.gl/maps/gkESk
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Man charged with sexually assaulting the same 14-year-old as a Mount Horeb police officer
The former music director of a Middleton church was charged Wednesday with sexually assaulting the same 14-year-old boy a Mount Horeb police officer has been charged with assaulting.
Middleton Police Capt. Chuck Foulke said the investigation involving James "Alex" Gillespie, 48, led to the Madison police investigation of Dennis P. Jenks, 44, a Mount Horeb police lieutenant who was charged last week with repeated sexual assault of a child.
The boy, who ran away from home in Beloit in October, allegedly lived with Jenks from October until Feb. 13, when Jenks was arrested. A criminal complaint filed in Dane County Circuit Court alleges Gillespie assaulted the boy in November and December.
Gillespie is charged with two counts of sexual assault of a child under 16. He is scheduled to appear in court Thursday.
"We began receiving some tips from concerned neighbors (about) young men at Gillespie’s condominium late at night," Foulke said. "Then we started also receiving information from the church about some concerns about his activities with young men and his position as the music director."
Police began interviewing people who had been to Gillespie’s condo, which led them to the 14-year-old boy, Foulke said. They learned the boy was living at Jenks’ apartment in Madison, where detectives contacted the boy on Feb. 13.
Jenks was charged on Feb. 21 with repeated sexual assault of a child. He is due back in court in late March.
Gillespie was music director at St. Luke’s Lutheran Church, 7337 Hubbard Ave. The Rev. Roger Eigenfeld, the church’s senior pastor, said Wednesday the church is "shocked" by news about Gillespie.
"We were unaware of any activities that caused the Middleton Police Department to arrest and bring charges against him," Eigenfeld said. "We have been and will continue to cooperate with the authorities as they continue their investigation. And certainly our prayers go out to any who have been hurt."
According to the complaint:
On Feb. 13, the boy told police he knew Gillespie but denied having a sexual relationship with him. But five days later the boy admitted Gillespie performed sex acts on him, the last time three or four days after Christmas. The boy said each time afterward "he felt very guilty because he felt like he was cheating on another man," presumably Jenks. In the criminal complaint against Jenks, the boy described Jenks to police as his "best friend" and tearfully told police he loved Jenks.
The boy said he told Gillespie he was 18, and Gillespie never questioned that.
On Feb. 12, Gillespie told Middleton detectives he thought the boy was 18. He said he met the boy through social media and he would come over to Gillespie’s home late at night and leave early in the morning.
Read more: http://host.madison.com/news/local/crime_and_courts/man-charged-with-sexually-assaulting-the-same--year-old/article_a96cf048-814b-11e2-815c-0019bb2963f4.html#ixzz2MFZs0fkk
