20 years, 700 victims: Southern Baptist sexual abuse spreads as leaders resist reforms ( pizzagate )

submitted by new4now

https://www.houstonchronicle.com/news/investigations/article/Southern-Baptist-sexual-abuse-spreads-as-leaders-13588038.php

In all, since 1998, roughly 380 Southern Baptist church leaders and volunteers have faced allegations of sexual misconduct, the newspapers found. That includes those who were convicted, credibly accused and successfully sued, and those who confessed or resigned. More of them worked in Texas than in any other state.

They left behind more than 700 victims, many of them shunned by their churches, left to themselves to rebuild their lives. Some were urged to forgive their abusers or to get abortions.

About 220 offenders have been convicted or took plea deals, and dozens of cases are pending. They were pastors. Ministers. Youth pastors. Sunday school teachers. Deacons. Church volunteers.

Nearly 100 are still held in prisons stretching from Sacramento County, Calif., to Hillsborough County, Fla., state and federal records show. Scores of others cut deals and served no time. More than 100 are registered sex offenders. Some still work in Southern Baptist churches today.

At least 35 church pastors, employees and volunteers who exhibited predatory behavior were still able to find jobs at churches during the past two decades. In some cases, church leaders apparently failed to alert law enforcement about complaints or to warn other congregations about allegations of misconduct.

Several past presidents and prominent leaders of the Southern Baptist Convention are among those criticized by victims for concealing or mishandling abuse complaints within their own churches or seminaries.

Some registered sex offenders returned to the pulpit. Others remain there, including a Houston preacher who sexually assaulted a teenager and now is the principal officer of a Houston nonprofit that works with student organizations, federal records show. Its name: Touching the Future Today Inc.

Many of the victims were adolescents who were molested, sent explicit photos or texts, exposed to pornography, photographed nude, or repeatedly raped by youth pastors. Some victims as young as 3 were molested or raped inside pastors' studies and Sunday school classrooms. A few were adults — women and men who sought pastoral guidance and instead say they were seduced or sexually assaulted.

'So many people’s faith is murdered. I mean, their faith is slaughtered by these predators.’

...much more in article, this is not just the Catholic Church abusing the children, Pedophillia is everwhere

Vindicator

...much more in article, this is not just the Catholic Church abusing the children, Pedophillia is everwhere

What are your thoughts on the idea that the cabal targeted churches deliberately compromise them? I know there is quite a bit of evidence of that happening in the Catholic Church -- not just from the Clinton staff discussing it in the Wikileaks emails, but also from Bella Dodd, who was warning about it as far back as the 1950's. Given the fact that the churches would be the most natural enemy of the these satanic sickos, though, they'd pretty much have to compromise all of them with any significant influence in order to succeed in their agenda.

new4now

I have no doubt on that

The Catholic Church has been compromised long ago

take away the peoples faith, and nothing is left but broken shells

What do Communists and Pedophillia have in common?

there is a push for both under the guise of socialism and homosexuality

Atheism is the cornerstone to Communists

is it a wonder the Churches are enemies?

not at all

I'm starting to think there is more to Communism then just politics

just might look more into it, because that is the direction many Countries are taking, but not coming out and calling it that

as foe pedophillia, how many who have been abused become abusers?

How do drugs add to the abuse of children?

and let us not forget the internet

recruitment on the web is disgusting

EVERYONE knows there is a pedophille problem, but too many continue on their merry way thinking it doesnt effect them

They are so wrong

IMO, there is only one way to stop pedophilla, and that is to treat it as you would a rabid animal

Shizy

Bottom line- parents need to ALWAYS have their guard up and NEVER leave their children with anyone who they don't know extremely well! Predator pedos lurk everywhere where there are children!

I go to church. My children DO NOT attend Sunday school. They sit right next to me and my husband in service.

Vindicator

When our kids were of Sunday school age, we volunteered to teach it. :-)

Shizy

That's a good idea. But then I'd have to deal with other people's children too!

Vindicator

What...don't you want to grow in holiness? ;-)

carmencita

Upvoat! Truer words were never spoken.

carmencita

Yep sure are right about that. It’s not just the RCC. sicko perverts everywhere. You don’t need a minister or pastor or church to pray to God. He will listen at any time of the day or night and anywhere. Out in nature is even better. Men or women wearing a cross can be just as perverted and sick as a convicted sec offender. Beware.

TurkishDelighted_Mi

The buggers baptised me when I was 3 years old.. The back 9 type of baptism if you get what I mean. Fed me some chems aswell before sending me of to see a special hypno therapist to spell me up using a magnetic horseshoe. Fuck me do I know English now. Splintered my precious mind they did. No hard feelings tho- eternally forgiven.

Are you aware Jesus was an MK ultra?

And it doesn't stop there...

Do a star jump.

The head represent Judaism.

The left hand is Islam

The right hand christianty

The left sole of your feet is Hinduism.

The right sole of your feet is Buddhism.

And now turn that star upside down and that's religion for you or five kings..

I'm going to gave you your birth right.

Are you a Adam or an eve??

The real book of life is in my heart. Your a gift from heaven.

Vindicator

You need to stop drinking ES. Truly .

shewhomustbeobeyed

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new4now

Thanks

shewhomustbeobeyed

Always my pleasure. :)