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Was Jason Jackson Listed in Southern Baptist Abuse Investigation Report?

Jason Jackson, a Sunday school teacher at Main Street Baptist Church in Alexandria, Kentucky, pleaded guilty and was sentenced to six months in jail and five years of probation for a five-year assault on an 11-year-old girl.

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SBC Guidepost Report Names

According to the Washington Post, a 300-page report was released on Sunday, May 22, 2022. The document includes horrible new specifics concerning certain abuse circumstances and sheds light on how denominational authorities actively disapproved abuse avoidance and reform for several years.

Southern Baptist Convention leaders have actually announced a substantial and independent 3rd party investigation that found that abusers were typically disregarded, forgotten, or perhaps denounced by upper-level congregation administrators from within this religious denomination of larger than 16 million individuals. Furthermore, it showed these leaders typically deceived their own members to avoid them from knowing the rampant sexual misconduct.

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A History of Ignored Abuse

For almost two decades, survivors who were sexually assaulted attempted to contact the administration of the Southern Baptist Convention concerning the priests and church workers. Just about all of these disclosed incidents fell outside of the SOL, making it uncertain the number of sexual predators were really incriminated. According to the document, a secret record was kept. Victims’ cries for fair treatment went ignored as officials from churches and companies attempted to protect themselves rather than those who have been victimized by sexual abuse.

One victim talked about being treated with hostility as she alleged she was sexually abused by a youth pastor. The implicated pastor served in numerous Southern Baptist churches in a number of states. During a conference with the SBC leaders in 2007, a member of the Exec Committee “turned his back to her during her speech and another chortled.”

Accountability in the Southern Baptist Convention

Russell Moore, the former head of the SBC’s policy branch, the Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission, stated ‘this is not all Southern Baptists, look at all the good we do.’ The report shows a trend of stonewalling, retaliation, intimidation, and coverup.” He anticipates this document will deliver much-needed reform and hold those responsible for their horrific actions.

For more information about resources available to sexual abuse survivors in Kentucky, visit this link: https://abuseguardian.com/sexual-assault-lawyer/kentucky/sex-trauma-therapist-ky/

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