UNITED STATES
ABC News
[with video]
By ALAN B. GOLDBERG, GAIL DEUTSCH, SUSAN JAMES and SEAN DOOLEY
April 8, 2011
For years, her church was all she knew but today, Tina Anderson has left that church and says she’s not going back.
“I still struggle, because I’ve been made to feel guilty for so long,” she told “20/20.”
Anderson was only 16 when she said she was forced to stand terrified before her entire church congregation to confess her “sin” — she had become pregnant. She says she wasn’t allowed to tell the group that the pregnancy was the result of being allegedly raped by a fellow congregant, a man twice her age.
She says her New Hampshire pastor, Chuck Phelps, told her she was lucky not to have been born during Old Testament times when she would have been stoned to death.
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