SOUTH CAROLINA
Island Packet

BY JONATHAN MCFADDEN
jmcfadden@heraldonline.com
March 7, 2014

YORK — An international support group for people who have been abused by church leaders is demanding that the denominational organization that employed a North Carolina pastor accused of sexually assaulting a girl at two York churches answer “why they allowed a convicted sexual predator to work?”

After issuing a statement Friday afternoon, the executive director of the Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests (SNAP) said the Fire Baptized Holiness Church of God of the Americas needs to use its resources to “aggressively seek out anybody who might have seen, suspected or suffered this minister’s crimes.”

More, “they need to beg every single witness or victim to contact law enforcement ” and “aggressively reign in anyone who might be tempted to publicly support this minister or attack his accusers.”

Those statements come a day after…