Published 2 years ago

Southern Baptist leaders covered up sex abuse, lied about secret database, report says

Summary by Ground News

Guidepost Solutions, the firm conducting the investigation, issued 17 recommendations for reform. The report publicly details, for the first time, a credible allegation of sexual assault against former SBC President Johnny Hunt. The SBC's law firm repeatedly advised leaders not to take action when those leaders were approached with concerns about abuse or reform.

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BBC News

Southern Baptists vow 'healing' after abuse claims

Survivors of sex abuse at the hands of clergy were stonewalled and vilified, a new report finds.

2 years ago·United Kingdom

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The Guardian

Southern Baptist leaders ‘stonewalled’ sex abuse victims, scathing report says

Survivors who reported abuse to executive committee were ‘ignored’ as leaders were ‘singularly focused on avoiding liability’

2 years ago·London, United Kingdom

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CTV News

Top Southern Baptists in U.S. stonewalled sex abuse victims: report

Leaders of the Southern Baptist Convention, America's largest Protestant denomination, stonewalled and denigrated survivors of clergy sex abuse over almost two decades while seeking to protect their own reputations, according to a scathing 288-page investigative report issued Sunday.

2 years ago·Canada

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The Independent

Report: Top Southern Baptists stonewalled sex abuse victims

Top Southern Baptists stonewalled and denigrated survivors of clergy sex abuse over almost two decades, according to a scathing investigative report issued Sunday

2 years ago·London, United Kingdom

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Reuters

U.S. Southern Baptists release scathing report on sexual abuse

For decades, complaints of sex abuse by pastors and staff in the largest U.S. Protestant denomination, the Southern Baptist Convention, were either ignored or covered up by top clergy, according to an internal report released on Sunday.

2 years ago·United Kingdom

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Associated Press News

Report: Top Southern Baptists stonewalled sex abuse victims

The Southern Baptist Convention's Executive Committee — and thousands of its rank-and-file members — now have opportunities to address a scathing investigative report that says top SBC leaders stonewalled and denigrated survivors of clergy sex abuse over two decades while seeking to protect their own reputations.

2 years ago·United States

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