Ex-SBC president Johnny Hunt sues for defamation over abuse allegations
It’s the latest high-profile lawsuit over abuse in the SBC and it further complicates a fight over Southern Baptist pastors and churches platforming Hunt.
“The SBC Executive Committee is aware of the complaint against the Convention filed by former SBC president Johnny Hunt. We are reviewing the complaint and will not be commenting on active litigation at this time,” an SBC Executive Committee spokesperson said in a statement.
Hunt filed suit in federal district court of Middle Tennessee and is represented by a Tennessee-based law firm, Cole Law Group, and an Indiana-based firm, MacGill Law.
Hunt is suing the SBC and the SBC Executive Committee, and Guidepost Solutions, over the abuse allegations, which Hunt said in a complaint “involved only kissing and some awkward fondling.”
Amid abuse allegations against former Southern Baptist Convention president Johnny Hunt, Hunt sued the SBC and SBC Executive Committee, and a third-party firm on Friday, March 17 for defamation.
It’s the latest high-profile lawsuit over abuse in the SBC and it further complicates a fight over Southern Baptist pastors and churches platforming Hunt.
“The SBC Executive Committee is aware of the complaint against the Convention filed by former SBC president Johnny Hunt. We are reviewing the complaint and will not be commenting on active litigation at this time,” an SBC Executive Committee spokesperson said in a statement.
Hunt filed suit in federal district court of Middle Tennessee and is represented by a Tennessee-based law firm, Cole Law Group, and an Indiana-based firm, MacGill Law.
The executive committee manages denomination business outside the SBC annual meeting in June. The executive committee, under the oversight of a SBC task force, hired Guidepost to conduct an abuse investigation into how SBC leaders have previously handled abuse reports and treated survivors.
Guidepost’s investigation also found in its investigation and said in its May 2022 report that Hunt assaulted another woman in 2010. Hunt denied assaulting the woman in a May 2022 statement and said he was in a “compromising situation with a woman who was not my wife” and that it was “a consensual encounter.”
https://www.knoxnews.com/story/news/religion/2023/03/18/johnny-hunt-lawsuit-sbc-abuse-allegations/70024532007/
Yeah, right, it's always "consensual" when YOU do it.
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