'Ignored, disbelieved': Southern Baptist Convention sexual abuse report details cover up, decades of inaction

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The 300-page report contains explosive details about how denomination leaders worked to avoid liability, rather than help victims of sexual abuse.

Investigators reviewed correspondence between executive committee staff and members, and attorneys from Guenther, Jordan & Price, the Nashville-based law firm that served as legal counsel to the SBC and the executive committee for 56 years.

Guidepost investigators say Hunt pulled down the woman's shorts, made sexual comments to her and then pinned her to a couch before groping her and violently kissing her. Later, in a separate conversation, he told the woman “he would like to have sex with her three times a day,” according to the report.

The woman and her husband have not shared the story publicly until they spoke with Guidepost investigators. Those leaders and lawyers"were singularly focused on avoiding liability for the SBC to the exclusion of other considerations," the Guidepost report states."In service of this goal, survivors and others who reported abuse were ignored, disbelieved, or met with constant refrain."

 

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