Churches check closer after molestation cases
By ERIN FRANCE - erin.france@onlineathens.com
Published Sunday, January 30, 2011
Church leaders today want to trust their employees and volunteers, but more churches are taking the time to check backgrounds and train youth ministers to make sure their most vulnerable members are safe.
300_advertisement_header.gif
In the past four months, three youth ministers in Northeast Georgia churches were arrested and charged with molesting minors in their congregations.
Gwinnett County police arrested James Benjamin Harris, 33, on charges of child molestation earlier this month.
Harris taught Sunday school classes at Brookwood Baptist Church outside of Lawrenceville and was arrested after a mother checked her 14-year-old son’s phone and saw sexually explicit text messages from Harris, police said...
http://www.onlineathens.com/stories/013011/new_778281504.shtml
There are lots more but it’s making me nauseated posting them.
It wouldn’t be a problem if they were allowed to marry!