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A newly-unearthed trove of documents and videotape shows that Paige Patterson personally investigated and downplayed numerous sexual misconduct allegations against his protégé Darrell Gilyard during his meteoric rise in the SBC — and even after Gilyard confessed and resigned from his Dallas-area church in July 1991.