from serving on a national SBC entity, as well as taking leadership roles at any charity or nonprofit in Texas.Boto claimed for years that the SBC had no authority to create a database of abusers that could be used as a resource for churches to perform better background checks. Survivors had for years said the SBC’s lack of structure made it easy for predators to move undetected between churches, and that a database would help track abusers.
That did not stop Boto and Oldham from keeping their own list of sexual abusers in churches. In 2007, they started to maintain a private roster of abusive ministers that eventually included more than 700 offenders, most affiliated with SBC churches. In 2019, when Chronicle reporters approached Boto and Oldham ahead of the newspaper’s first reports on SBC abuse, the two men said they were upset to learn of a large-scale abuse issue. Boto said he was angered by some of the numbers provided to him by reporters, but that SBC leaders were powerless over local church decisions.
Hunt said he had kissed her and touched her breasts over clothing, and tried to pull her shorts down, but that it was consensual, Guidepost wrote. Hunt then told her husband “thank God I didn’t consummate the relationship,” the husband told Guidepost. Hunt denied most of their claims and took a public break from ministry for what he said was exhaustion. Guidepost investigators said Hunt did not seem credible in his interviews with them.
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