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For years, Southern Baptist leaders kept a secret list of hundreds of accused abusers. It's now public.
Southern Baptist leaders released a confidential list of hundreds of accused sexual...
John Tedesco, Robert Downen
May 26, 2022 Updated: May 27, 2022 7:50 a.m.
Southern Baptist leaders released a confidential list of hundreds of accused sexual abusers Thursday evening that tracked names, dates and details about a burgeoning abuse crisis — but was kept secret for more than a decade.
Dating to 2007, the list includes many individuals that overlap with a database of 263 convicted Southern Baptist abusers that was published in 2019 as part of Abuse of Faith, an investigation by the Houston Chronicle and the San Antonio Express-News that revealed how the faith group failed to protect church members.
Among the offenders: Charles Adcock, who was charged in 2015 with 29 counts of rape and sodomy involving a 14-year-old girl he met at the SBC-affiliated Woodward Avenue Baptist Church in Muscle Shoals, Alabama.
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The 409 Southern Baptist abuse cases in Boto’s list exceeds a tally of 263 convicted offenders documented in Abuse of Faith, which examined cases from a longer, 20-year time frame beginning in 1998.
The newspapers’ database of offenders was posted online as a resource for the public and had a narrower focus than Boto’s list: confirmed cases that resulted in criminal convictions.
The newspapers also found scores of additional pastors, employees and volunteers at Southern Baptist churches whose cases hadn’t yet been adjudicated.
*Seems to me that religions and their leaders need to be removed.
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