"A former Elgin (Illinois) pastor found guilty Wednesday of spanking a girl with a piece of wood in his office admitted he wasn't prepared for the task of counseling a child who claimed to have been sexually abused.
'The situation was over my head,' said Rev. Daryl Bujak, who avoided jail time when he was sentenced to 12 months of supervision. 'I didn't have the ability to deal with the situation I confronted.'
Bujak was found guilty of two counts of battery for spanking the 12-year-old during counseling sessions in 2005 at First Missionary Baptist Church in Elgin. He was accused of beating the girl with a piece of crown molding, in part because he did not believe her allegations."
It's not madness that he was found guilty -- that's actually a sign of some sanity. This is the madness:
"Bujak was found not guilty of violating a state law that requires clergy members to report allegations of sexual abuse."
After all the rightful indignation about clergy abuse and cover-ups you would think not reporting the allegation would be fairly easy to prove in a court before a judge without the emotional baggage a jury brings to the table. I mean it's simple: he didn't report it.
Read the story in the Chicago Tribune.
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