Alabama pastor who leads the Southern Baptist Convention: 'Meaningful steps' are needed after sex-abuse report.
quoted Litton as saying, “We knew it was coming” but “it still is very challenging and surprising — shocking — to have to face these realities.”
The seven-month investigation was conducted by Guidepost Solutions, an independent firm contracted by the Executive Committee after delegates to last year’s national meeting pressed for a probe by outsiders. “Our investigation revealed that, for many years, a few senior EC leaders, along with outside counsel, largely controlled the EC’s response to these reports of abuse ... and were singularly focused on avoiding liability for the SBC,” the report stated.“Amid my grief, anger, and disappointment over the grave sin and failures this report lays bare, I earnestly believe that Southern Baptists must resolve to change our culture and implement desperately needed reforms,” Litton wrote.
According to the report, an Executive Committee staffer compiled a secret list of more than 700 ministers accused of abuse, but took no “action to ensure that the accused ministers were no longer in positions of power at SBC churches.” This revelation came after years of victims and advocates calling for a public database of abusers.“I believe it represents the courage of survivors who have come forward and told their stories,” he wrote of the report.
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