Woman buoyed by support after viral pastor confrontation

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“I'm a prisoner no longer.' An Indiana woman who says her pastor sexually preyed on her beginning in her teens confronted him in church, in a video posted on Facebook. She says she's since felt 'overwhelming support.' The pastor has resigned.

In this undated photo provided by Bobi Gephart, Gephart and her husband, Nate Gephart, pose for a picture. Bobi says she has felt "overwhelming support" from people all over the world after she confronted Pastor John B. Lowe II.

Nearly a million viewers have witnessed what happened next in that May 22 confrontation, captured on video and posted on Facebook. “For years, I thought I was a horrible person, having suicidal thoughts, not realizing what had truly been done to me, that I was a victim,” she told him. “I was just 16 when you took my virginity on your office floor. Do you remember that? I know you do.”Bobi Gephart, now 43, told The Associated Press she wanted the church community to know the truth and had no idea the video, recorded by a family member in the congregation, would generate such a viral response.

Indiana State Police, in a statement, asked anyone with “information as a victim or a witness” about the situation to contact investigators. Gephart said from the time she was young, her family’s life “revolved around the church and the Lowes.”“We were like family with them,” she said, and when one set of parents was traveling, the other would often watch over the children.

When she told him what had happened, she said her brother immediately confronted Lowe by text, calling on him to resign.

 

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