MISSOURI
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
By Lilly Fowler
A female minister has settled a sexual-abuse lawsuit involving a local African Methodist Episcopal Church.
Brenda Jones had filed a lawsuit against Wayman African Methodist Episcopal Church in St. Louis Circuit Court on Jan. 29, 2014.
The lawsuit named the African Methodist Episcopal Church, the Fifth Episcopal District of the African Methodist Episcopal Church, which encompasses churches in Missouri, and Bishop Larry T. Kirkland, the presiding prelate of that district, as defendants.
Now, nearly a year later, that lawsuit has settled, although Jones’ case against Frederick McCullough, the former pastor of Wayman African Methodist Episcopal Church who she claims sexually abused her, is still pending.
“I’m just glad that I had the courage to stand up,” Jones said. “This was the hardest thing I had to do in my life.”
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