Washington Pastor & Chaplain Sentenced to 30 Years for Child Sexual Abuse, Creating CSAM
Last week, David Roger Franklin, 68, was handed a life sentence after pleading guilty to three counts of producing child sexual abuse material, as well as a count of possessing child sexual abuse images.
Franklin previously served as the senior pastor of Wellington Assembly of God Church in Wellington, Kansas, and was also an army chaplain. According to one of his bios, he “has pastored in Kansas and Montana and served on ministry staff in Texas and Colorado” and has preached at boys camps across the nation and around the world.” He is married and has five children and multiple grandchildren.
According to the Yakima Herald, Franklin was arrested after “a computer technician working on Franklin’s laptop at his office found folders containing video and photos depicting sexual abuse in June 2022. Investigators found that some of the photos were taken with Franklin’s cellphone of a 4-to-6-year-old girl he knew.
The girl told detectives that Franklin took the photos of her and abused her, and told her that was their “little secret,” according to documents filed in court.
Franklin also had images on his computer of adult men sexually abusing young girls, the documents said.”
While a just society would put him to death and bury him in an unmarked grave, the 30-year sentence guarantees he will almost certainly die in prison.
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