The Baptist Press reports:
A former staff member of the Baptist Children’s Home and Family Services was sentenced to 22 years in prison Nov. 3 in White County Circuit Court. Daniel W. Lanning pled guilty to two counts of criminal sexual assault of a minor ages 13-17. He was arrested in April on four counts involving a teenager in his care at the Carmi facility.
Lanning and his wife were house parents in a BCHFS cottage from July 2021 until the time of his arrest when his employment was terminated. The BCHFS is a not-for-profit ministry founded in 1918 to serve orphaned children in Illinois. BCHFS also operates a home for women with crisis pregnancies.
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A former staff member of the Baptist Children’s Home and Family Services was sentenced to 22 years in prison Nov. 3 in White County Circuit Court.https://t.co/hJYXpSGvMa
— Baptist Press (@BaptistPress) November 10, 2022