Jesse Ruhl: Judge Denies Statute-of-Limitations Challenge
Backstory:
• “Jesse Ruhl: Proposition 8-Pushing Church Associate Pastor Charged With Child Molestation (Plus: Hyles-Anderson Pastor-Daddy Dogged By Sex-Abuse Lawsuit),” March 11, 2012
• “Jesse Ruhl Gets Lawyer, Has Warrant Recalled (Translation: No Frog March, Sorry!),” March 22, 2012
• “Jesse Ruhl May Be Freed On Technicality,” April 19, 2012
The details are a bit confusing at first glance, but essentially:
In April, Ruhl’s lawyer filed a demurrer (a challenge) to a child-molestation charge on the basis that the statute of limitations had expired (by one lousy week).
The prosecution, which had goofed by originally citing only one date (November 25, 2010) on which alleged sexual contact between Ruhl and the girl took place (there was more than one alleged incident), filed an amended complaint citing multiple dates, the last being February 18, 2011 (resetting the date the statute-of-limitations clock started ticking).
According to the Chico Enterprise Record, Judge William Lamb “ruled the prosecution had committed a procedural error in its original complaint by identifying a single date, but prosecutors should be given an opportunity to correct it,” and denied the demurrer filed by Ruhl’s lawyer, Philip Heithecker.
Ruhl’s pretrial hearing is still set for August 29, 2012.
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[...] It’s ironic that just a few short years ago, Schaap came to my former church and preached a message on this very topic. He preached on pride and humility and ironic as it sounds, his two messages confirmed for us that we needed to leave. Not that his messages were bad, in fact they were good. The messages he preached revealed to us that humility was not within the church we were at and in order to save our own family from destruction, we needed to leave. We actually sent word to Jack to ask for assistance, but he didn’t return our calls. It’s a good thing he didn’t. We were able to leave and get our girls out of the youth group before the second violation of a teen girl took place. [...]