KANSAS CITY (MO)
Survivors Network of Those Abused by Priests
Minister loses bid to reverse big verdict
Two have accused high profile Protestant preacher
One alleged victim issues her 1st public statement
Clergyman was on State Board of Education recently
One abuse case against him went to trial in August
A second lawsuit – alleging child sex abuse – was resolved
His church was ordered to pay $350,000 to one alleged victim
Group urges that his board fire him & other clerics ostracize him
SNAP: “If you’ve seen, suspected or suffered abuse by him, come forward”
WHAT
Holding signs and childhood photos at a sidewalk news conference, clergy sex abuse victims and their supporters will
–disclose that a prominent pastor’s drive to toss out a $350,000 verdict has failed, and
–read a statement by one of the minister’s victims who has not spoken publicly before.
The group will also
— urge the pastor’s church colleagues to suspend or fire him,
— ask the KC religious community to shun him, for the safety of church-goers, and
— beg anyone who may have knowledge of or suspicions about misdeeds or crimes by the minister to “call police officials, not church officials” and “speak up, rather than continue to suffer in shame, silence and self-blame.”
WHEN
Monday, Nov. 3, at 1:00 p.m.
WHERE
Outside Christian Fellowship Baptist Church, 4509 Troost Ave. in Kansas City, Missouri
WHO
Two-four clergy sex abuse victims who belong to a support group called SNAP (Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests). One is a St. Louis man who is the organization’s long time executive director.
WHY
In August, a jury awarded $350,000 to a woman who said that a KC MO Baptist minister, Rev. Stan Archie, abused her when she was an adult. Now, SNAP is disclosing that the judge in that case is refusing to overturn that award.
A second suit against Rev. Archie, brought by another woman, has been resolved, according to the KC Star.
It accuses the minister of “having sexually inappropriate conversations with a female minor whom he was counseling, giving her money and gifts, and later harassing her after she ended their relationship,” according to KWMU Radio in St. Louis. It was filed “by a Kansas City-area woman identified as Jane Doe” and “alleges that the Rev. Archie began committing repeated acts of sexual misconduct against (her) when she went to him for counseling at age 15,” according to the KC Star.
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