June 2006 Monthly Archive

Blog & Mablog: “Age of Consent”

Gog & Magog

I have received a couple of response to the question I posed to Joan Opyr about the age of consent. One question was from someone wondering if I have any trouble with our current age of consent laws. And the answer to that one is simple . . . no, I don’t. . . .

New West: “Two Child Molestation Scandals Break Over Moscow’s Christ Church”

New West

For 18 months, a serial child molester named Steven James Sitler called Moscow home. He boarded with a Christ Church family. He attended Doug Wilson’s New St. Andrews College. How did the community and members of Christ Church learn of Steven Sitler’s crimes? On a local blog and, later, on an Internet community chat group. What’s wrong with this picture? Everything. . . .

Blog & Mablog: “Playing Chess on a Backgammon Board”

Gog & Magog

I want to spend a few minutes discussing one of the larger lessons to be taken from the Sitler child molestation case. This is not being done to drag this thing out, or tangle it up further, but rather just the reverse. . . .

Moscow-Pullman Daily News: Christian college defends actions amid rumors

Moscow-Pullman Daily News

Accusations that New Saint Andrews College kept knowledge of a sex offender and his activities under wraps has put college officials on the defensive. . . .

[Vision2020] shamelessness

Moscow Vision 2020

I will answer as many of these questions as I can with the information I have in the case file. Court records and prosecutorial records must be gathered from those entities. This will be my last posting about this case; I simply do not have time to do the job of an investigative reporter, court clerk, and secretary in addition to my duties at the Sheriff’s Office. . . .

Lewiston Morning Tribune: Church officials say rumors about sex offender are ‘ludicrous’

Lewiston Morning Tribune

Christ Church Pastor Douglas Wilson and Roy Atwood, president of New Saint Andrews College, Tuesday denied rumors a sex offender was harbored by the church and his crimes hushed up. . . .