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Man
Claiming to Be Pastor Accused of Raping Boys
07/29/1992
TULSA
WORLD (FINAL EDITION Edition), Page A22 of
NEWS
McALESTER
- A man who said he was former pastor was in the
Pittsburg
County Jail on Tuesday on charges of rape and
sodomy of
three boys.
A preliminary hearing is scheduled Sept. 22
for Kenneth
Raymond Dewoody, 50, of Crowder. He was
charged with nine
counts of rape and sodomy. Bail was set
at $100,000.
Deputies found pornographic magazines and
videotapes in
his home north of McAlester.
The boys,
ages 14 to 17, allege Dewoody raped and sodomized
them,
sometimes in front of other boys, sometimes while
watching
pornographic movies, authorities say.
Two of the boys met
Dewoody at Ask Creek Church, where Dewoody
was a pastor,
authorities say.
But G.C. Gray of Blocker, the church's
pastor since the
1980s, said Dewoody had never been a
pastor there and was
not a member of the church.
Dewoody also told authorities he is an ordained minister,
according to the sheriff's report.
Church
Reconstruction Gets $5.2 Million Boost
MUSKOGEE -
Reconstruction of St. Paul United Methodist Church
got a
$5.2 million lift recently.
The money was an insurance
settlement for the cost of replacing
the building. More
money is coming for the value of the
building's contents,
destroyed by a fire last Christmas Day.
Construction is to
begin as soon as architect Gary Sparks
produces plans
acceptable to the congregation and church
officials.
Sparks' first ideas are to be presented to the
building
committee Aug. 13.
Construction contracts could be let
this year, and if construction
begins by early March, the
building could be completed in 1993.
Preliminary plans
call for the sanctuary to be similar to
the structure that
burned, with at least one tower to be
built reminiscent of
the two that framed the church's main
entrance. The
building will probably be designed to seat
600 to 800
people.
Area Man Faces Trial On Molestation Counts
WAGONER - A Tulsa businessman will stand trial in two
child
molestation cases.
Following a preliminary
hearing Monday in Wagoner County
District Court, John
Adrian Morgan, 33, was ordered to stand
trial on nine
counts involving two girls, ages 9 and 11.
Morgan, who
lives in Wagoner, denied the charges as well
as a report
that he told Wagoner police he had molested
up to 150
other children. He is being held without bail
in the
Wagoner County jail.
Morgan operates Jani-King Janitor
Service in Tulsa.
Historic Hastings Home Falls Victim
to Blaze
TAHLEQUAH - Fire has destroyed the W.W. Hastings
home, which
the former U.S. congressman built in 1889 as a
wedding gift.
Hastings, who also was the chief of the
Cherokee Nation
for one day, built the home for his
fiancee, who died before
the wedding.
The home, which
had been declared a historic landmark, was
sold to Raymond
and Jewell Morris in 1979. They were in
Texas when the
house burned early Sunday.
Assistant Fire Chief Bob Adrian
said the blaze apparently
started in a closet. Two-thirds
of the two-story structure,
including some antiques, were
lost, he said.
Inmate Knifed in Fight Released From
Hospital
McALESTER - An Oklahoma State Penitentiary inmate
stabbed
during a fight in the exercise yard is out of the
hospital
and is in a disciplinary unit, a prison official
said Tuesday.
Another inmate is also in the disciplinary
lockup unit,
while a third is recovering in his cell from
a broken nose,
said OSP spokeswoman Lee Mann.
Prison
officials continue to investigate what caused the
Friday
afternoon fight among the prisoners, who were part
of the
general population. Officers found two homemade knives.
Andrew Tucker, 30, was stabbed in the back and thighs
several
times, Ms. Mann said. He was taken to McAlester
Regional
Health Center when his blood pressure began to
fall, she said.
Tucker has been placed in the E Block,
used for disciplinary
segregation, along with Ezekiel
Davis, 23, who was not injured.
Leon Fowler, 27, was
returned to his cell, Ms. Mann said.
Tucker is serving 20
years for a 1979 robbery conviction
in Oklahoma County;
Fowler is serving 50 years for a 1989
convicton of
second-degree burglary in Osage County after
three
previous felony convictions; and Davis is serving
life for
a 1989 first-degree murder conviction in Tulsa
County,
officials said.
From staff and wire reports
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