The suit accuses SBC and its affiliated Champion Forest Baptist of negligence while a youth pastor committed crimes of sexual abuse against minors in the church.
Three Jane Does who claim they were sexually abused as minors by a youth pastor at Champion Forest Baptist sued the Houston megachurch and the Southern Baptist Convention (SBC) last week, alleging negligence and seeking more than $1 million in damages.
The case against Champion Forest—which is a three-site church based on the northwest side of the city—comes after 34-year-old ex-minister Timothy Jason Jeltema was sentenced in 2022 to five years in prison after pleading guilty to sexual abuse crimes.
The suit alleges the church and the SBC failed to protect the girls from the abuse. “In what has sadly become an all too familiar story, this…
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