MISSISSIPPI
WRAL
CLINTON, MISS. — A church where a former music minister admitted sexual abuse will host a program for all denominations to learn how to keep their ministries free of child molestation.
The Baptist Children’s Village will hold the sexual abuse awareness and training program April 29 at Morrison Heights Baptist Church in Clinton, The Clarion-Ledger (http://on.thec-l.com/MWDSnx) reported.
That church’s former music minister, John Langworthy, admitted during a service in 2011 that he had molested boys in Texas and the Jackson area. He pleaded guilty last year to five counts of felony gratification of lust between April 1980 and December 1984.
“Reacting to abuse is not enough,” said Chrystelle Thames, director of public relations at the Baptist Children’s Village, which is sponsoring the program with the Christian Action Commission of the Mississippi Baptist Convention.
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