MISSOURI
The Kansas City Star
BY MARK MORRIS
THE KANSAS CITY STAR
08/06/2014
A Jackson County jury began deliberations late Wednesday afternoon on the question of whether the Rev. Stan Archie sexually exploited a church staffer by using his position as a pastoral counselor.
Archie, a former Kansas City police chaplain and pastor of Christian Fellowship Baptist Church, resigned as president of the Missouri State Board of Education in January 2013 after two women filed lawsuits accusing him of sexual misconduct.
Jurors got the case after an afternoon of closing arguments that were alternately emotional and dispassionately legal.
Noting that three other women had testified at trial that Archie had sexually abused them during church counseling sessions, lawyer Rebecca Randles asked jurors to find both Archie and the church liable of civil fraud for representing that he was a “safe and competent” counselor.
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