UNITED STATES
Christian Today
Czarina Ong 13 May 2016
For decades, the Association of Baptists for World Evangelism (ABWE) tried its best to keep the sexual abuse allegations made against one of its missionaries under wraps. Recently, however, it decided to come clean and even revealed the true extent of the abuse made by Donn Ketcham, the accused missionary.
The ABWE released a 280-page report that revealed how its leaders failed to stop Ketcham from sexually abusing 22 women and girls while he served at the Memorial Christian Hospital in Malumghat, southeast Bangladesh back in 1961. He was only fired in 1989, according to the Religion News Service.
According to the report, one of his victims was an underage teenage girl who was labelled as a “willing partner.” She has now come out to confess.
“We’re devastated by the negligence of ABWE leadership in failing to remove Ketcham from the field again and again,” the family of the underage teen survivor said in the report. “We wish that ABWE leaders could comprehend the immeasurable pain that this… continues to cause her even to this day.”
Most of Ketcham’s victims were his patients, and some of them were even as young as eight years old. He would drug them with the anaesthetic ketamine and conduct unnecessary pelvic and breast exams on them.
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