KANSAS CITY (MO)
KCTV Channel 5
March 7, 2019
By Chris Oberholtz, Angie Ricono
The Kansas City Police Department is investigating after one of their chaplains has been accused of abuse.
Local advocacy group SNAP, which keeps track of priests and ministers accused of sexual abuse, revealed the information that they say the department should have known.
Kansas City attorney Rebecca Randles, who has represented hundreds of clergy sex abuse victims, identified the chaplain as Baptist minister Stan Archie, who has been part of the department’s program for about 10 years, police said.
Archie has been sued twice. Randles said one filing was resolved out of court which involved a 15-year-old girl who claimed Archie encouraged her to go out have sex with men and then call him so they could talk about it. He would then masturbate to her phone calls, Randles said.
Another was a civil case that went to court. It was more of a split verdict where a woman accused Archie of sexually inappropriate behavior in a counseling relationship.
The jury did not convict him of that but did find his church guilty of fraud for trying to cover-up and conceal the allegations, Randles said. Three other women testified at the trial that Archie had abused them.
The accuser was awarded $350,000 by a jury.
She released a statement that said, “I was a member of Christian Fellowship Baptist Church, Stan Archie was my Pastor. For some reason unbeknownst to me, I became his prey. He was a wolf in sheep’s clothing. Please, please stop him from hurting anyone else and stop these nightmares.”
“We’re very worried frankly,” said David G. Clohessy with SNAP. “Typically people who prey on the vulnerable seek out positions of power and prestige or access and they exploit that.”
“We aren’t saying that Reverend Stan Archie should be hungry or homeless, but we don’t think he should be a police chaplain or have any role in a taxpayer institution,” Clohessy said.
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