by Brian Shilhavy,Health Impact News:
A major investigative report on the life of Paul Pressler, the former judge and Southern Baptist Church leader who died on June 7, 2024 at the age of 94, was just published in theTexasMonthly, documenting four decades of predatory sexual abuse within the Southern Baptist Church.
The author is Robert Downen, who was one of the lead reporters who exposed massive sex abuse in the Southern Baptist Churches among their pastors and leaders back in 2019 in the Houston Chronicle.
I covered that story back in 2019. See:
TRUTH LIVES on athttps://sgtreport.tv/
This collection of mug shots includes a portion of the 220 people who, since 1998, worked or volunteered in Southern Baptist churches and were convicted of or pleaded guilty to sex crimes.Image source.
In his recently published article atTexasMonthlyon the life of Paul Pressler, titled:He Remade the Southern Baptist Convention in His Image. Then Came the Abuse Allegations.– Downen gives an update on attempts to implement reforms to protect victims of sexual predators in the Southern Baptist Convention since his article shook the very foundations of the Southern Baptist Convention (SBC), where most of these pedophiles continue to pastor churches and still maintain leadership roles within the SBC.
As he chronicles the life Paul Pressler who was a founder of the modern Evangelical Christian Conservative movement, he shows how sexual abuse charges were routinely swept under the rug and then blamed on “liberals” who they claimed were attacking them on their Conservative religious and political views.
This was an incredibly written piece of investigative journalism! I learned quite a bit from it.
For example, he documents how those who exposed and were victims to the predatory sexual abuse among Catholic Priests, which became widely reported in the corporate news after the Boston Globe’s exposure of them,which was made into a movie, also tried to warn leaders in the Southern Baptist Convention that the same things were happening in their churches, but their warnings fell on deaf ears.
Source: SGT Report
