Southern Baptist leaders release sex abuser database they kept secret for years

[Blaster]

Sexual abuse is a national problem. Religion has nothing to do with it.

 

[JohnDB]

Many are aware of this scandal--but for some reason most want to focus of the Catholics or the LDS..and not acknowledge that child sexual abuse has been a problem in almost all Christian denominations...perhaps with this release the blinders will come off for the Southern Baptists and the perpetrators punished~

MSN

Southern Baptist leaders on Thursday evening released a list of alleged church-related sexual abuse offenders that denomination heads had kept secret for more than a decade. The Executive Committee for the Southern Baptist Convention said earlier this week it would publish the names after it issued a third-party investigation that suggested a widespread coverup by top leaders who ignored and even “vilified” people who came forward with stories of abuse.
The database, which an SBC attorney said includes people who have been criminally convicted of abuse and those who have confessed to abuse, is expected to show what top leaders knew behind the scenes while telling Southern Baptists they could not create a list of accused abusers because the denomination is not hierarchical and churches operate independently from one another.
A description at the top of the document reads: “This is a fluid, working document." It consists of more than 600 entries, the date the person was reported and information largely pulled from news articles, compiled from 2007 until 2022. “It is incomplete. It has not been proofed. It has not been adequately researched. It is not Southern Baptist specific," the document reads. It notes that, after June 2008, “only alleged/convicted names of abusers and [titles] of articles were catalogued.”
The release of the database comes 15 years after Christa Brown began sounding the alarm that Southern Baptists needed to keep such a list to prevent abusers from transferring from church to church. She first told SBC leaders in 2004 that she had been abused by a youth pastor who went on to serve in other Southern Baptist churches in multiple states. But the report published Sunday by the SBC said she was met with hostility when she suggested the idea in 2007.
Brown, 68, was emotional Thursday when she learned that the man she alleges abused her was listed in the database — an official acknowledgment by the Southern Baptist Convention.
“This means so much to us survivors,” she said. “It’s a reflection of how cruel it was to stonewall any kind of validation for decades. For survivors to heal, this kind of validation is an acknowledgment of the truth of the horror of what was done to us.”
The man she alleges abused her, who has not been charged or convicted, hung up the phone in response to a Washington Post request for comment. She said the man began to abuse her in 1968 and that when she initially pursued a civil case against him in 2005, the statute of limitations had expired.
But, Brown said, the list is also a “very small measure of justice.”
“They don’t get to pat themselves on the back for this,” Brown added. “I’m sorry. God only knows why they were keeping it secret. It’s the very tiniest thing of what needs to be done.”
Key takeaways from the bombshell sex abuse report by Southern Baptists

The contents of the report were never or have ever been secret. That's a blatant lie. Actionable by lawsuit. Hope they got their insurance paid up. Because the contents of the list have been extracted from published newspaper articles.

And the committee that was responsible for hiring the list to be made? Well they regularly rotate off every year and a new member takes his place....so basically nobody knew except one guy who had served for a couple of years and he instantly began blaming everyone else for not publishing the list which was more his responsibility for knowing about it than any of the other newbies to the committee.

And considering that the list was constructed from PUBLIC INFORMATION....it's not the big deal that this article has made it out to be.

 

[whitehall]

Alleged sexual abuse offenders? Why don't authorities release the trannie terrorist manifest?

 

[JohnDB]

Alleged sexual abuse offenders? Why don't authorities release the trannie terrorist manifest?

The sex offenders were all publicly convicted in a court of law...and the records made public.

I've seen the list. The criminals names and crimes are annotated with the news articles and dates that the articles were published.

And the SBC also strongly urges every church to pay for a background check of every employee in the church. (Don't want to hire a convicted embezzler as the treasurer)

 

[whitehall]

The sex offenders were all publicly convicted in a court of law...and the records made public.

I've seen the list. The criminals names and crimes are annotated with the news articles and dates that the articles were published.

And the SBC also strongly urges every church to pay for a background check of every employee in the church. (Don't want to hire a convicted embezzler as the treasurer)

The link says they are alleged sexual offenders.

 

[whitehall]

The story seems to be another hit piece against organized religion. The link claims that the charges are "alleged". The "list" implies some sort of secrecy rather than public records. Is it fair to publish the name and link a person to 20 year old unproved allegations? Meanwhile the authorities keep a manifest of a mass murderer of Christian children secret.

 

[JohnDB]

Yeah....
They absolutely don't understand what they are saying or doing or even the laws concerning libelous statements.

They published lies instead of truth....I doubt they even looked at the list before publishing the article.
And from my contacts at the SBC it truly was a comedy of errors...the lawyers assembling the list weren't exactly keeping in contact the way they needed to with the committee that literally knew nothing about it because they all had just gotten elected. It was their first time on the committee.

As soon as they found out...they published the list. Kinda anticlimactic IMHO. All were convicted publicly...and/or scandalized publicly in the newspapers. None of it was secret stuff by any stretch of the imagination. Any background check of any of these pastoral staff would instantly pop with their newspaper articles.

 

[Smokin' OP]

hey! moron! what the fuck are you bluffing ? you do not makes sense. ( stupid idiot ) try again with better words.

actual point is rapes are happening in America in each 1 minute, and domestic violence in each 9 seconds. so what the fuck makes difference ? huh?

why say that cult leaders are any different than average americans ? huh? since no one is safe even in normal life than why blame only cults ? huh? would it make you sane man? are you any thing like saint ? huh?

WTF?
So your defense is.......
Everyone is doing it, so why not the churches?
Holy FUCK?
It's like the criminals are doing it, so why not the police?
What a DUMBASS.
Like the police and churches, they are SUPPOSED to be houses of refuge against victimization.

 

[whitehall]

It's ironic that the same people who are hyper critical of Baptists wanted to force the BSA (Boy Scouts) to hire overt homosexuals to supervise young boys.

 

[EvilEyeFleegle]

The contents of the report were never or have ever been secret. That's a blatant lie. Actionable by lawsuit. Hope they got their insurance paid up. Because the contents of the list have been extracted from published newspaper articles.

And the committee that was responsible for hiring the list to be made? Well they regularly rotate off every year and a new member takes his place....so basically nobody knew except one guy who had served for a couple of years and he instantly began blaming everyone else for not publishing the list which was more his responsibility for knowing about it than any of the other newbies to the committee.

And considering that the list was constructed from PUBLIC INFORMATION....it's not the big deal that this article has made it out to be.

Incorrect...many of the names were never charged or convicted. Not to mention the incontrovertible fact that church officials allowed suspect clergy to transfer to other churches..and continue to abuse.
Yes, it is the big deal it's made out to be.
One must wonder as to your motives in minimizing this news.

 

[JohnDB]

Incorrect...many of the names were never charged or convicted. Not to mention the incontrovertible fact that church officials allowed suspect clergy to transfer to other churches..and continue to abuse.
Yes, it is the big deal it's made out to be.
One must wonder as to your motives in minimizing this news.

I've seen the published list.
Everything you just said is not true.

 

[Blaster]

Alleged sexual abuse offenders? Why don't authorities release the trannie terrorist manifest?

Because it would expose how sick and dysfunctional they are.

 

[EvilEyeFleegle]

I've seen the published list.
Everything you just said is not true.

After review...this list, replete with redactions...appears to be as you say it is. My bad.
As far as a decades long coverup...I guess we'll have to disagree. I note that the list is labeled "Highly Confidential" and "not to be published".