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Newsflash: the folks that run Bob Jones University are horrible people.
For decades, students at Bob Jones University who sought counseling for sexual abuse were told not to report it because turning in an abuser from a fundamentalist Christian community would damage Jesus Christ. Administrators called victims liars and sinners.
Bob Jones hired an outside Christian consulting group to look into how its students were being “counseled” by its staff. Now it’s fired that group, apparently because they were not conducting the investigation in the manner the university expected they would, and we can all read whatever we like into that:
On Friday, Stephen Jones, president of the university and great-grandson of its founder, addressed students and employees, saying, “We grew concerned that in the process, Grace had begun going beyond the originally outlined intentions,” but he would not elaborate.
The apparent short circuiting of the investigation has led to victims going public.
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