Charges piling up against Sloniker

COEUR d'ALENE — The Coeur d'Alene long-haul trucker charged with lewd conduct with boys also now faces six child pornography charges.

Kevin G. Sloniker, 30, has been charged with two counts of production of child pornography, two counts of distributing child porn and two counts of possession of sexually exploitative materials, according to an amended criminal complaint filed in 1st District Court in Kootenai County.

The updated charging documents said Sloniker, between January 2014 and September of this year, allegedly took pictures of the private parts of a 14-year-old boy.

During the same time period, Sloniker allegedly took similar pictures of an 11-year-old boy.

Sloniker allegedly showed the pictures to another person.

The documents were filed by Kootenai County Deputy Prosecutor Jed Whitaker.

Sloniker is scheduled to appear before Magistrate Anna Eckhart on Dec. 10 for a preliminary hearing, when prosecutors will work to establish probable cause and have the case moved up to District Court for a future trial.

Sloniker was a youth camp counselor at Immaculate Conception Church in Post Falls. He allegedly met and befriended some boys through the youth camps.

The Immaculate Conception Church is part of a breakaway sect known as the Society of Saint Pius X, or SSPX. The Diocese of Boise released a statement this week clarifying that the Immaculate Conception Church is not a Roman Catholic Church.