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Woman confronts former Mormon leader she says molested her decades ago as a child at Chicago-area church

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In 2022, after memories came flooding back that she had been sexually abused decades earlier as a child at a northwest suburban Mormon congregation by church leader Wade Christofferson, Michele Boehmke decided to confront him in person. Christofferson had long ago left the Chicago area and was living near Columbus, Ohio, where he was part of another Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints community. Boehmke had also moved to Ohio and happene…

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Woman confronts former Mormon leader she says molested her decades ago as a child at Chicago-area church

“I don’t know why you get to continue living a comfortable life with the things you’ve done," Crystal Lake native Michele Boehmke told Wade Christofferson in 2022 during the encounter at his Ohio home that was secretly recorded. Boehmke plans to attend Christofferson's upcoming court hearing at which he'll be sentenced for more-recent sexual misconduct with other children.

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Chicago Sun Times broke the news in Chicago, United States on Monday, October 12, 2026.
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