Posted on 05/22/2022 10:30:16 PM PDT by Morgana
LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WAVE) - Hannah Kate Williams filed a lawsuit Friday, alleging the Southern Baptist Convention and its seminary failed to protect her and other children from the abuse of her father, who was also employed by the organization as a pastor.
“Imagine being told that the more the sexual abuse hurts, the more pleased God is,” Williams said. “And so it’s very extensive, torturous type of abuse that not only I but my siblings experienced as well.”
She said the physical abuse started when she was four, and the sexual abuse started when she was eight.
“My father, my abuser, would baptize me, and that baptism would also work as a type of waterboarding,” Williams said.
When she turned to church leaders for help, she said instead of stepping in, they praised her father’s behavior.
“To come out of the abuse and to expect freedom to look a certain way, to expect it to be joyous and to expect the church to embrace you for doing the right thing for telling the truth,” Williams said, “only to be harassed and to be threatened and to be told you are an enemy of God and you are destroying the domination that you’ve only ever known.”
Even though she is 27, a recent Kentucky law extends the statute of limitations for child abuse survivors. It also requires the actual complaint to be sealed, so WAVE News does not have access to the lawsuit.
Williams’ lawyer also filed to have it unsealed Friday.
That’s not the only way she is hoping for justice though.
A 300-page report from an independent investigation looking into 20 years of these types of complaints at the SBC is supposed to be released Sunday.
(Excerpt) Read more at wlbt.com ...
What did they know, and when did they know it? It will all come out in court.
I wonder what Adrian Rogers would think of the downfall of the SBC if he were alive today.
Pretending to be a man of God sand engaging in such abusive behavior has consequences. God will not be mocked
That seminary in Louisville? It’s suppose to have a good reputation. this story actually shocks me.
The SBC like many other denominations has become seeker sensitive. The churches cater to the desires and needs of the lost instead of the saved. They see the Gospel as a product to be sold and you will buy it if it is marketed in just the right way. This brings in lukewarm and unsaved leaders who see being a pastor as just another job and not a true calling.
“seeker sensitive” Every time I hear that word I want to barf.
No wonder it’s gone downhill.
You can thank Rick Warren for making that concept so popular. I am part of a small start up church and my pastor has said that church building books today encourage pastors to hire business and marketing consultants. Luckily we are rejecting that model and trusting that the Gospel is sufficient.
Amos 8 Whole chapter, but, in particular, verse 11. A promise being fulfilled as to what would be in ‘that day’, The Heavenly Father said He would send a famine of hearing the Word(s) of the Lord. This world is up to its eyes and ears of this famine.
ABUSE TRACKER
A digest of links to media coverage of clergy abuse.
http://www.bishop-accountability.org/AbuseTracker/
God has mercy, but He will not spate the church. I think the time of the Church is just about coming to an end and we are now as the church was in the First Century, without an Institution to protect us.
God has mercy, but He will not spare the church. I think the time of the Church is just about coming to an end and we are now as the church was in the First Century, without an Institution to protect us.
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