Former Lakeside Baptist youth minister gets 15 years for sex abuse, blames victims

ALABAMA
AL.com

By Greg Garrison | ggarrison@al.com
on May 15, 2015

Mack Allen Davis, 74, a former youth minister at Lakeside Baptist Church in Birmingham, was sentenced in Jefferson County Court today to 15 years in prison for sexual abuse of minors.

Davis spoke in court and blamed his victims for not forgiving him.

“If they are unwilling to forgive, then God can’t forgive them,” Davis said. “That’s in the Bible.”

Davis pleaded guilty to six charges of sexually abusing minors in Jefferson County on Dec. 1.

The Jefferson County indictment charged Davis with three counts of second degree sex abuse of a minor between the ages of 12 and 16, one count of first degree sodomy, and two counts of first-degree sexual abuse.

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