Top Southern Baptists plan to release secret list of abusers

[Eugene]

Source: Associated Press

Top Southern Baptists plan to release secret list of abusers

By DEEPA BHARATH
May 24, 2022

Top administrative leaders for the Southern Baptist Convention, the largest Protestant denomination in America, said Tuesday that they will release a secret list of hundreds of pastors and other church-affiliated personnel accused of sexual abuse.

An attorney for the SBC’s Executive Committee announced the decision during a virtual meeting called in response to a scathing investigative report detailing how the committee mishandled allegations of sex abuse and stonewalled numerous survivors. The committee anticipates releasing the list Thursday.

During the meeting, top leaders and several committee members vowed to work toward changing the culture of the denomination and to listen more attentively to survivors’ voices and stories.

The 288-page report by Guidepost Solutions, which was released Sunday after a seven-month investigation, contained several explosive revelations. Among those were details of how D. August Boto, the Executive Committee’s former vice president and general counsel, and former SBC spokesman Roger Oldham kept their own private list of abusive pastors. Both retired in 2019. The existence of the list was not widely known within the committee and its staff.

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[doc03]

1. They knew this was going on and instead of doing

something they make a f---g list.

[edhopper]

2. And the faithful

will keep following them and filling their coffers.

[Rebl2]

3. Yep

[walkingman]

4. When I see some of them go to jail then I will believe they are sincere - it won't happen.