NASHVILLE (TN)
Baptist News Global
June 10, 2019
By Christa Brown
For about six years between 2006 and 2012 I posted on a website the Southern Baptist clergy sex abuse cases that were publicly reported. During that time, I put together a small database of 167 cases, many with multiple victims.
With every case, I wondered: “Will this be enough? Will this finally be enough that Southern Baptist Convention officials will see the scope and horror of the problem and realize they need to do something?”
It never was. It was never enough.
Other bloggers also began posting Southern Baptist clergy sex abuse stories. And I wondered again, “Would it ever be enough?”
But it never was.
Last February, the Houston Chronicle and San Antonio Express-News published the first part of their “Abuse of Faith” series, documenting 700 victims who reported having been sexually abused by Southern Baptist clergy and church leaders.
Recent proposals “appear oriented more toward saving face for SBC officials than toward genuinely protecting kids”.
Yet again I wondered, “Would these 700 be enough?”
They weren’t.
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