West Chester Christian School / Bible Baptist Church of West Chester

A small K–12 school in Chester County, Pennsylvania, operated as a ministry of an Independent Fundamental Baptist church at the same address. Its fifth-grade teacher of 29 years, Randy Lee Boston, was convicted in 2022 of sexually abusing a first-grader. Former students allege a wider pattern; no finding against the institution exists in the public record.

Institution

West Chester Christian School

Operating church

Bible Baptist Church of West Chester

Address

1237 Paoli Pike, West Chester, PA 19380

Type

Private K–12 religious school, a ministry of the church

Tradition

Independent Fundamental Baptist

Linked case

Case No. 1 — Randy Lee Boston (CP-15-CR-0002739-2021)

The institution

Tier 1 · Court-proven

West Chester Christian School (WCCS) is a small private K–12 religious school at 1237 Paoli Pike in West Goshen Township, West Chester, Pennsylvania. It is a ministry of, and affiliated with, Bible Baptist Church of West Chester, an Independent Fundamental Baptist congregation at the same address. Because the school is the church’s ministry, the two are documented on this single page, as the public record treats them. The school’s own history dates its opening to 1972, after a 1971 start among the church’s leadership (mywccs.org); a current directory profile lists approximately 147 students and 19 teachers (Private School Review, 2026-27).

Randy Lee Boston taught at the school from 1979 to 2008 — 29 years — as a fifth-grade teacher. In 2021 a former student reported abuse from the 2007–2008 school year; Boston was convicted at trial and sentenced to 20 to 40 years. The full record is in Case No. 1.

Not this institution: Bible Baptist Church of Shickshinny, a separate church in Luzerne County where Boston later served as pastor. Similar name, different institution; this archive never merges them.

What the record shows — and what it does not

The judicial record establishes Boston’s employment, the offenses, and the conviction. It contains no finding against the school, the church, or any administrator, and no second teacher at this school has been charged in connection with it in the sources reviewed. Anything beyond that belongs to the allegations tier, below.

Attributed allegations concerning this institution

Tier 2 · Attributed allegations

• A July 13, 2021 Change.org petition by former student Mindy Bell (a student 1980–1989) alleges that reports of physical, emotional, and sexual abuse at the school spanning 1975 to the present were covered up by the administration; that corporal punishment, including pants-down paddling, was routine; and that some students who reported abuse or bullying were expelled. The petition asks the Chester County District Attorney to investigate the school. It closed with 125 supporters. These are allegations, not findings.
• Public reviews by former students describe harsh corporal punishment and reference a survivor Facebook group, “I survived West Chester Christian School.” Reviews are unverified personal accounts.
• The publisher of this archive, a former student, has publicly alleged that multiple pastors and principals allowed Boston to continue with access to children over roughly twenty years, including internal prayer-based handling instead of reports to authorities. Attributed allegation; unadjudicated. Full text and labeling in Case No. 1.

News coverage

Broadcast video

Official and text coverage

Official (Tier 1 source)

• Chester County District Attorney’s Office — press release announcing the charges, July 8, 2021. The release itself is archived in Documents below; it is the founding document of the public record in this case.

News reports (Tier 2 — attributed reporting)

• Chester Daily Voice, July 9, 2021 — Cecilia Levine’s report of the charges, the fullest published account of the criminal complaint affidavit, including Pastor Daniel Brabson’s June 2021 meeting with West Goshen Township police (archived copy via BishopAccountability.org).
• MinistryWatch, July 12, 2021 — Anne Stych’s report of the arrest, drawing on Times Leader and Daily Local News reporting (ministrywatch.com).
• Hello West Chester, Weekly News Roundup, July 15, 2022 — notes Boston’s trial scheduled for the following month (hellowestchester-newsletter.beehiiv.com).
• Hello West Chester, Weekly News Roundup, January 13, 2023 — reports the sentence: 20 to 40 years (hellowestchesterpa.com).
• MinistryWatch, January 26, 2023 — Anne Stych’s sentencing coverage (ministrywatch.com). Where news reports and the court docket differ — MinistryWatch gives a January 11 sentencing date and a September verdict — the docket controls on this site: guilt disposition August 31, 2022; sentence imposed January 9, 2023. See Case No. 1.

Tier 3 · Open question

No standalone public statement by the school or the church about the Boston case was found in the searches performed for this page (news archives and the institutions’ own sites, October 18, 2026). The one documented institutional contact is the June 2021 Brabson meeting described above. If a statement exists, or is issued, it will be added here with its date.

Documents

Everything this archive lawfully holds for this case, in one place. Each document below is served from a site copy of the archive’s evidence-vault original, with the date the original was captured and the SHA-256 hash of the archived copy — so any reader can confirm the copy has not been altered since capture. As records arrive in response to the requests logged below, they are added to this section the same way.

Correspondence & records

Six formal requests were sent for this case, and their status is tracked below. Non-responses are recorded as faithfully as responses.

The Right-to-Know Law reaches the public agencies above; it does not reach a private church school itself, which is why the school’s own records were requested by preservation and disclosure letter. The same log, with the Standards that govern it, is summarized on the Standards page.

What former students describe

Tier 2 · Attributed testimony

Beyond the petition and reviews above, the publisher of this archive — himself a former student of this school — describes the institution’s culture in his own account, published here in general terms as attributed testimony.

In that account, it was a very small school with a two-tier culture. The pastor’s family stood inside a protected circle: its children were not held to the discipline other children received. Outside that circle, a small group of children — in his telling, disproportionately the poorer kids — were persistently and harshly punished, and were the least protected when protection mattered. He describes the divide as structural rather than incidental: in a school that small, everyone knew which tier a child belonged to, and which tier you were in determined how the school’s rules applied to you — and whether anyone intervened for you.

The pastor of that era is referred to here only as the publisher recalls him — a pastor whose surname is recalled as Griffith or Griffin; his tenure has not yet been verified against public records, and that verification stands as an open research question on this page. If public records resolve the tenure, this page will state the sourced fact and keep the favoritism account attributed, as it is now. No member of the pastor’s family is named in this account; it concerns the institution’s culture, not private individuals.

This is one former student’s testimony. It is labeled Tier 2, it is not a court finding, and neither the school nor the church has responded to it in the public record reviewed. Other former students’ accounts — the 2021 petition, the public reviews, and the survivor community credited in Case No. 1 — are recorded on this page and in the case file, each in its own tier.

Tell your story about this institution

If you attended West Chester Christian School, worked there, or witnessed what happened there, your account is part of this institution’s record. This school has its own intake form, and it works anonymously: you choose exactly how your account may be used — published with your name, published anonymously, or recorded and never published. Nothing is published outside the choice you make.

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