Leaders in the Southern Baptist Convention on Sunday released a major third-party investigation that found that sex abuse survivors were often ignored, minimized and “even vilified” by top clergy in the nation’s largest Protestant denomination.
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Southern Baptist leaders covered up sex abuse, kept secret database, report says
Among the findings was a previously unknown case of a pastor who was credibly accused of assaulting a woman a month after leaving the presidency of the Southern Baptist Convention
Updated May 22, 2022 at 5:46 p.m. EDT|Published May 22, 2022 at 1:20 p.m. EDT