Sunday Houston Chronicle series Abuse of Faith---100s of children abused by SouthernBaptist leaders

[bobbieinok]

Promo available at Bob Felton's blog--bobfelton.com

A major series investigating the Southern Baptist Convention.

One of Billy Grahsm's grandsons was a lawyer working for the FL atty general's office, specializing in child abuse cases. He later organized a group dedicated to investigating abuse claims in Evangelical churches and organizations. They were called in to investigate Bob Jones U history of mishandling, covering up claims of sexual assault. As they were finishing up their investigation, the U's admin abruptly fired them.

The leader of the investigative organization has said that the abuse in all types of protestant churches/ministries/organizations is at least as bad as what has been learned about abuse within the Roman Catholic Church.

[Ohiogal]

1. LOCK THEM ALL UP!

[keithbvadu2]

2. Not even news anymore... Just more details.

Not even news anymore... Just more details.

[trev]

3. A friend of mine

was abused by his Pentacostalist church when he was 12 years old.

[Achilleaze]

4. kristo-republican family values are unworthy

republicans need to repudiate their lying, cheating, stealing, sex abuse, and support of grifters and traitors. They need to embrace American values like truth, honor, integrity, respect, and loyalty to the USA.

Freaking A. What a sad state of affairs it is to behold the degenerate, unethical republican party & it's perverse predatory "holy men."

[allgood33]

5. Add this to the list.

https://www.charismanews.com/us/75149-women-report-sexual-abuse-at-the-hands-of-new-tribes-mission-leaders

Missionaries. Some abuse their own children in foreign lands. Life is a bitch!

[oasis]

6. "Holier than thou" Deplorables.

[Hortensis]

7. Here's the link to the first of the Houston Chronicle reports.

It's out today. https://www.houstonchronicle.com/local/investigations/abuse-of-faith/

(The OP's link is to a blog, and the blog's link is not to the Chronicle but to another blog discussing this.)

Wow to this, and thanks, BobbieInOK, for posting it. I'll be reading these articles.

Btw, IT is going to make it far more difficult for criminals and malefactors of all types to keep their actions secret. Times really are changing. I'm thinking of daylight on the activities of local government actions and officials also. Take a look at the Chronicle's sidebar explaining their research, which was once simply effectively not possible.

Abuse of Faith
20 years, 700 victims: Southern Baptist sexual abuse spreads as leaders resist reforms

HOW WE DID THIS STORY:
In 2007, victims of sexual abuse by Southern Baptist pastors requested creation of a registry containing the names of current and former leaders of Southern Baptist churches who had been convicted of sex crimes or who had been credibly accused. That didn't happen; the last time any such list was made public was by the Baptist General Convention of Texas. It contained the names of eight sex criminals.

In 2018, as advocates again pressed SBC officials for such a registry, Houston Chronicle reporters began to search news archives, websites and databases nationwide to compile an archive of allegations of sexual abuse, sexual assault and other serious misconduct involving Southern Baptist pastors and other church officials. We found complaints made against hundreds of pastors, church officials and volunteers at Southern Baptist churches nationwide.

We focused our search on the 10 years preceding the victims' first call for a registry and on the 10-plus years since. And we concentrated on individuals who had a documented connection to a church listed in an SBC directory published by a state or national association.

We verified details in hundreds of accounts of abuse by examining federal and state court databases, prison records and official documents from more than 20 states and by searching sex offender registries nationwide. In Texas, we visited more than a dozen county courthouses. We interviewed district attorneys and police in more than 40 Texas counties. We filed dozens of public records requests in Texas and nationwide. ...