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EC ‘secret’ abuse database released, some Illinois connections reported

May 27, 2022 By Illinois Baptist Staff

SBC Executive Committee Building

The SBC Executive Committee (EC) leadership has released the secretly held database of abuse claims and convictions revealed in the Guidepost Solutions investigation of the EC’s handling of sexual abuse allegations in the denomination. There are 585 names on the list dating back to August 2008. “This list is being made public for the first […]

SBC Executive Committee expresses lament, issues statement on abuse investigation report

May 24, 2022 By Illinois Baptist Staff

SBC Executive Committee Building

SBC Executive Committee chair Rolland Slade led committee members in a devotion on lament at the opening of a special-called meeting covering the 288-page report on the EC’s handling of sexual abuse claims in the denomination. “We are still processing,” the California pastor said. “We are lamenting, listening, and learning.” In the 95-minute meeting, trustees […]

Hunt denies allegations of abuse

May 23, 2022 By Illinois Baptist Staff

Johnny Hunt

Johnny Hunt resigned a week before the Guidepost Solutions report was made public on May 22. Hunt turned in his resignation to North American Mission Board President Kevin Ezell on May 13, the day the SBC Executive Committee received the report. Hunt denies the allegations that he forcibly groped and kissed the wife of a […]

IBSA issues statement on Guidepost Solutions Report

May 22, 2022 By Illinois Baptist Staff

IBSA

Nate Adams, Executive Director of the Illinois Baptist State Association, issued a statement on the Guidepost Solutions report on the SBC Executive Committee’s handling of sexual abuse claims in the denomination, which was made public on Sunday (May 22). “Along with many others, I am grieved over the information released today by the SBC’s Sex […]

SBC Sexual Abuse Task Force investigation report released

May 22, 2022 By Illinois Baptist Staff

SBC Executive Committee

Updated May 22 6:30 p.m. | The Southern Baptist Convention’s Sexual Abuse Task Force has released the findings from a report conducted over the past eight months of research and interviews. The report contains the unedited, unredacted results of Guidepost Solutions’ independent investigation into the SBC Executive Committee’s handling of sexual abuse cases for 2000 […]

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