Is it a boarding school or a day school (or both)?

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Is it a boarding school or a day school (or both)?

It is a day school. Apparently all of the occurrences were happening in the school premises; I just can't understand how is it possible that this went on and on and nobody saw or did something about it. It is not even a single, isolated case, but a series of depravities with many children involved so where in the world were the adults who were supposed to be in charge of this youth?

A long-haul truck driver from Coeur d’Alene who also served as a church youth camp counselor is suspected of raping and abusing underage boys in Spokane and Kootenai counties over the past decade.

Kevin G. Sloniker, 30, faces felony charges of rape and lewd conduct involving two underage boys and is a suspect in the sɛҳuąƖ abuse of at least eight other boys, according to court docuмents. He’s being held in the Kootenai County Jail on $1 million bond.

Sloniker met and befriended some of the boys in his role as a youth camp counselor at Immaculate Conception Church in Post Falls, according to investigative reports filed with 1st District Court in Kootenai County.

Some of the alleged abuse occurred at Sloniker’s parents’ home in Latah, south of Spokane, and some happened when he took boys on the road with him around the Western U.S., according to court records.


He was arrested on a warrant Sept. 14 in Menomonie, Wisconsin, and extradited to Kootenai County, where he was booked into jail Oct. 9. Sloniker is charged with two counts of felony lewd conduct and one count of felony rape. Additional charges are possible, prosecutors in Kootenai and Spokane counties say.

Sloniker made his first court appearance Friday, when his bond was set by 1st District Magistrate Barry Watson. He does not yet have an attorney.

In an Oct. 9 interview with police, Sloniker admitted to fondling nine boys, having oral sex with a few of them and raping one over the past 10 years. He said he wanted help for an addiction to touching young boys.

Because Sloniker is accused of taking boys across state lines to abuse them, he also may face federal charges.

Sloniker allegedly raped and assaulted one Coeur d’Alene boy repeatedly over the past six years, starting when the victim was about 11 years old and living near Airway Heights, according to a criminal complaint. Sloniker was a family friend and later moved in with the boy’s mother, the victim told a police detective. He also said Sloniker pressured him to bring his two cousins to Sloniker’s apartment so he could molest them as well.

Sloniker also is charged with lewd and lascivious conduct with a 9-year-old boy from Newport, Washington. That boy told detectives Sloniker fondled him during an overnight stay at the suspect’s residence last April.

Witnesses told investigators Sloniker liked to spend time with kids much younger than him and would buy them lavish gifts. He was involved in youth camps at Immaculate Conception Church, which is part of the Society of Saint Pius X, a traditionalist group with no canonical standing in the Roman Catholic Church.

One boy said he attended the church’s Immaculate Conception Academy, and that Sloniker was involved with a group of boys who attended the K-12 school in Post Falls. Sloniker also taught boys how to be altar boys through the Guild of St. Stephen, an international organization of altar servers, investigators learned.

Some parents told police they knew of or strongly suspected the abuse and advised others to keep their kids away from Sloniker. In some cases Sloniker lived for a time with the families of his alleged victims.

One alleged victim told a detective that Sloniker took him on a long trip in his truck through seven Western states when the boy was between 10 and 15 years old. Sloniker sɛҳuąƖly assaulted him repeatedly during the journey, the boy stated.

Another boy said he spent one summer at the Latah farm when he was about 12. Sloniker’s attention escalated to nightly sɛҳuąƖ abuse, and Sloniker also hit him with a whip, he told police.

Several of those interviewed said they reported their concerns to the priests at Immaculate Conception Church. The boy who said he was whipped by Sloniker said he shared that with Father Patrick Crane. He also told the priest that Sloniker made him strip naked.

Crane, who now is with another Society of Saint Pius X church – Our Lady of Sorrows in Phoenix – was interviewed by a detective Sept. 22. He said Sloniker worked with the church camp from 2003 to 2006 and that he did not have any issues with him.

When the detective shared that one of the alleged victims said he had told Crane about Sloniker whipping him, “Crane said he remembers part of it, but it was mostly because (the boy) did not want to attend the camp.”

Crane added that he remembers not asking Sloniker back after that, and also told the detective that if something had been brought forward, he would have said something “because this was during the time the church was being looked into for other abuse allegations across America,” the detective wrote.

Others said they warned Father James Haynos and Father Paul Vassal at the church about Sloniker.

Neither Vassal, the headmaster at the church, nor Crane returned calls for comment Monday.

The detective learned that Sloniker had attended St. Thomas Aquinas Seminary, also part of the Society of St. Pius X, in Winona, Minnesota. Vassal said in an Oct. 2 interview with police that the seminary in 2005 deemed Sloniker to be mentally unstable after he tried to circuмcise himself. He was removed from the seminary program.

There were no known incidents of sɛҳuąƖ abuse by Sloniker back then, Vassal told police.

Haynos, who now lives in Kansas, told Coeur d’Alene police Detective Nicholas Lowry he was unaware of the sex abuse allegations against Sloniker. “Haynos also told me due to Sloniker’s unstable mindset he would never be put in a position in which he would be in charge of kids,” the detective wrote.

Is it a boarding school or a day school (or both)?

A church youth camp counselor and failed seminary student admitted to molesting at least nine boys over the past decade, police said.

Kevin Sloniker, an Idaho long-haul trucker, has been charged with rape and lewd conduct involving two underage boys and is a suspect in the sɛҳuąƖ abuse of at least eight other boys, reported the Idaho Statesman.

The 30-year-old Sloniker met some of the boys when he served as a youth camp counselor at Immaculate Conception Church in Post Falls, according to court docuмents.

Police said Sloniker admitted to fondling nine boys, having oral sex with some of them and raping one boy, and officers said the former seminary student wanted help with his “addiction” to sɛҳuąƖly abusing young boys.

He abused some of the boys at his parents’ home in Latah, Washington, and Sloniker molested the others when he took them on the road around the western U.S., investigators said.


Sloniker was arrested earlier this month in Wisconsin and extradited back to Idaho, where remains jailed in Kootenai County on $1 million bond.

He could face additional charges in Idaho, and Sloniker could face federal charges because he is accused of taking victims across state lines to abuse them.

Sloniker was kicked out of St. Thomas Aquinas Seminary in 2005, when he was deemed mentally unstable after he attempted to circuмcise himself.

The seminary and Immaculate Conception Church, where Sloniker was involved in youth camps, are both part of the anti-Semitic Society of Saint Pius X — a traditionalist sect with no canonical standing within the Roman Catholic Church.


The ultra-conservative society was formed in reaction to the church’s modernization in the 1960s, and the group now claims nearly half a million members.

Society churches conduct Mass in Latin, with the priest’s back to the congregation, and many Saint Pius X officials and followers are outspoken αnтι-ѕємιтєs — although they prefer to describe themselves as opponents of “Jєωιѕн naturalism.”

The Southern Poverty Law Center, however, calls “radical traditionalist Catholics” — including SSPX members — the “the single largest group of hard-core αnтι-ѕємιтєs in America.”

Witnesses told investigators that Sloniker repeatedly raped and sɛҳuąƖly abused one boy over six years, starting when the victim was 11 years old, and moved with a family member into the victim’s home.

He pressured the boy to bring two cousins home so he could molest them, too, investigators said.

Some parents told police they strongly suspected Sloniker, who stayed with the families of some victims, of sɛҳuąƖ abuse because he spent so much time with young boys and bought them lavish gifts.

Several parents brought their concerns to Father Patrick Crane, who is now with another Society of Saint Pius X church – Our Lady of Sorrows in Phoenix.

Crane told investigators last month that he was aware that a boy claimed Sloniker had forced him to strip naked and then whipped him.

The priest said Sloniker worked with the church camp from 2003 to 2006, and Crane said he recalls that he did not ask the trucker back after learning about the boy’s claims.

“Crane said he remembers part of it, but it was mostly because (the boy) did not want to attend the camp,” police said.

The priest said he did not think there was enough evidence to report the incident, although Crane said he was aware the boy’s claims were made “during the time the church was being looked into for other abuse allegations across America.”

Other parents said they warned Father James Haynos, the church headmaster, and Father Paul Vassal about Sloniker, although it’s not clear they ever took any action to investigate the claims.

Vassal told police he knew about Sloniker’s circuмcision attempt, although the priest said he was unaware of any sex abuse claims against the trucker from that period.

Haynos, who now lives in Kansas, said he knew nothing of sex abuse allegations against Sloniker — although he said the failed seminary student’s “unstable mindset” should have disqualified him from “a position in which he would be in charge of kids.”