Served SBC church for 20 years
Last month, a federal jury convicted a Montana pastor of sexually abusing three children while they were staying at his home on the Northern Cheyenne Indian Reservation.
The terms of the settlement were not disclosed.
The Southern Baptist Convention (SBC) has reached a confidential settlement with Gerald Duane Rollins Jr. in a lawsuit he filed against the denomination in 2017.
The Dallas Church of God discovered the transactions dating back five years.
The grandson of a pastor in North Carolina has been accused of embezzling nearly half a million dollars from the church his grandfather leads.
Charges involve seven victims dating back to 2007.
The former pastor of a church in Lancaster, Kentucky, has accepted a plea deal to drop 12 charges related to the sexual abuse of children in exchange for pleading guilty to one charge of sexual ...
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While churches have made progress in recent years toward addressing abuse, including contacting law enforcement when learning about allegations of sexual abuse, they can still be reluctant to inform people in the pews about abuse ...
Child victim was abused and filmed in pornographic videos
Austin Wray Perkins, a Georgia youth pastor, was sentenced last week to 15 years in prison for child molestation and possessing child sex abuse material.
A former South Carolina pastor has been sentenced to 40 years in prison after being convicted of sexually assaulting his two daughters.
Prosecutors say the man used church as “his hunting ground for his victims.”
A church music teacher and school bus driver in Colorado has pleaded guilty to three felony counts of sexual misconduct with three young victims and may spend more than a decade in jail.
His death follows the church’s discovery of criminal investigation into sexual abuse
The youth and worship pastor at Nashua Baptist Church in Nashua, New Hampshire took his life five days after his church discovered he was under criminal investigation for child sexual abuse.