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COGIC Abuse Watch
New ground has been broken in favor of COGIC clergy sexual abuse survivors. The three victims of Bishop Charles Brown are telling their story publicly for the first time. Brown, who currently sits as pastor of the Williams Temple COGIC in Houston escaped prison earlier this year on a legal technicality.
Four days after that ruling, the General Board immediately reinstated Blake’s longtime friend to office. The previous suspension was lifted “without further comment”. This left the impression that Brown was not guilty. But Brown was never exonerated of his sexual crimes against three young girls, thus he should have never been reinstated. Report COGIC Abuse also published an exclusive report exposing the General Board who secretly paid off the victims.
But now, they are speaking out in an exclusive interview with Dunamis Word blog which has helped to document the coverup and complicity by the Blake administration.
The time has come to hold Bishop Charles Blake, Sr. accountable for his role in these matters. According to one of the victims only one other person knew them as well as Brown knew them.
[…]one of the survivors states that until the interviews, which can be heard above, only ONE other person in the church has ever made contact with any of them. That was the Bishop Charles E. Blake, who spoke to one of the victims, as he knew them very well for a number of years. Unfortunately, that conversation was over some 15 years ago before Bishop Blake became Presiding Bishop.”
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