https://www.star-telegram.com/living/re ... 58515.html
https://www.charlotteobserver.com/lates ... 84474.html
And there is more news related to Paul Pressler
https://www.houstonchronicle.com/news/h ... 831892.php
The latter is beginning to take a very bad, ugly turn.
William has a good blog post on the issue of local church autonomy and the reporting of clergy abuse at SBC Voices.
https://sbcvoices.com/outside-of-the-lo ... x-abusers/
Now that Southern Baptists have come to the realization that the crisis among their pastors and vocational ministers places them in the same category as Catholics and priests when it comes to sexual abuse of congregation members, the issue becomes how to handle reporting this between churches, and church-related entities. It seems like communication between one church and another, or the IMB and a couple of churches was simply non-existent when an abuser moved from employment with the IMB to two large Arkansas churches, and the state Baptist convention in South Carolina before his victims caught up with him.