Trucker pleads guilty to molesting boys

A Coeur d’Alene long-haul truck driver pleaded guilty Wednesday to molesting seven boys between the ages of 8 and 14. Kevin Gerard Sloniker faces a prison term of up to seven consecutive life sentences when he is sentenced July 13. He accepted a plea deal in a hearing before 1st District Judge Cynthia Meyer. Sloniker, 30, answered “guilty” as Meyer read each of the seven counts. He then described his “hand to genital” contact with each of the victims. Sloniker met and befriended boys in his role as a youth camp counselor at Immaculate Conception Church in Post Falls, according to investigators. The church is part of the Society of Saint Pius X, a traditionalist group with no canonical standing in the Roman Catholic Church/ Scott Maben , SR. More here .