Lee's Summit Pastor Accused by Five Women, Keeps Job

Lee’s Summit Pastor Keeps Pulpit as Five Women Accuse Him of Abuse – BishopAccountability.org

Five women have accused Jerry Finchum, the 51-year-old senior pastor of Lee’s Summit Baptist Temple in Missouri, of sexually abusing them as teenagers or young adults, according to an investigation by The Roys Report. The allegations put the church’s response in focus: the outlet reported that a concern was brought to church leadership in 2018, but the congregation elected Finchum senior pastor five years later and he remains in the pulpit. The …

Lee's Summit Pastor Accused by Five Women, Keeps Job

Five women accuse Lee's Summit Baptist Temple pastor Jerry Finchum of sexual abuse dating to 2007; prosecutors declined a grand jury case.

Missouri pastor remains in Baptist pulpit despite multiple accounts of groping and abuse

Five women have accused a pastor in suburban Kansas City of sexually abusing them when they were teenagers or young adults. The women told Lee’s Summit, Missouri, police that Jerry Finchum touched them under their clothes, gave them inappropriate gifts and attempted to manipulate them into sex. One woman claims that Finchum, at the time […]