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$5 million bail for man charged with child sexual abuse

by KAYE THORNBRUGH
Staff Writer | March 11, 2026 1:00 AM

COEUR d’ALENE — A man accused of sexually abusing two children is in jail on $5 million bail.

In early February, a grand jury indicted David E. Wilder, 53, on two counts of lewd conduct with a minor under the age of 16, two counts of sexual abuse of a minor under the age of 16 and a single count of sexual exploitation of a child by possessing sexually explicit material, all felonies. 

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