Wisconsin Church Elder Charged With Raping Child for Years
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A church official from Wisconsin has been taken into custody following accusations from a young girl about enduring years of sexual abuse.

Greg R. Douma, aged 58, is now facing multiple charges, including repeated sexual assault of a minor, three charges of child sexual assault, and a single count of incest, according to a report by the Lake-McHenry Scanner.

The Pleasant Prairie Police Department became involved on November 23 after an employee from the state’s Department of Children and Family Services alerted them about the situation. The girl, who is under 13, had confided in staff members at a mental health facility regarding the abuse.

During her testimony, the girl revealed that Douma engaged in actions that she described as “doing things to her that makes babies.”

The criminal complaint details that the abuse began when the girl was only 6 or 7 years old and persisted until she turned 12. She recalled that the incidents started with Douma enticing her to watch videos on his phone, specifically kitchen videos she enjoyed, while she lay on her stomach on her bed.

While she did, Douma raped her.

The girl provided details about what happened and said the rapes continued because she “got to watch videos, and he got to do his, you know, when man and women put private to private, and it makes them feel good.”

Douma reportedly told the girl that what he was doing was illegal and that if she told anyone, his wife would divorce him.

Finally, she called him last month. He asked her not to tell anyone what was happening, she said, but she told him she would not lie anymore. He responded, “okay,” the complaint says.

Detectives say Douma confessed during an interview at the police station on Friday, saying that everything the girl said was true. He told police the frequency of the rapes increased over the past two years but could not guess how many times he raped the girl. It “happened an awful lot over the years,” he said.

Douma was an elder with The Point church in Winthrop Harbor. He has since been scrubbed from the church’s website and YouTube channel, the Scanner said. He was still listed in a “pastor appreciation” post on the church’s Facebook page from November 1.

He appeared in Kenosha County Court on Monday and was given a $50,000 bond, which he promptly paid. He is due in court again on December 16.

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