HOUSTON (TX)
Premier
July 16, 2018
By Eno Adeogun
The lead pastor of a megachurch in Memphis, Tennessee who publicly backed one of his staff who was accused of sexual assault has resigned.
Chris Conlee from Highpoint Church had previously compared Andy Savage’s critics to the devil after it emerged that former teaching pastor Savage had been accused of sexually assaulting Jules Woodson when she was a teenager.
Woodson wrote in a blog post that back in 1998 when she was a 17-year-old high school senior, Savage, aged 22 and youth pastor at Woodlands Parkway Baptist Church in Houston, took advantage of her.
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