ST. LOUIS, Mo. -- A Missouri Baptist University employee has been charged with embezzling about $107,000 since being promoted to the university controller’s position in 2009.
RALEIGH, N.C. (ABP) – A former administrator at a prominent North Carolina moderate Baptist church was arrested recently and charged with embezzling more than $136,000 in church funds over a five-year period.
ALABASTER, Ala. (ABP) – Residents of a Birmingham suburb expressed shock at sexual abuse charges filed against a popular school teacher who faced similar allegations, but avoided arrest, 20 years ago while he was youth minister at a Baptist church.
WALDRON, Ark. (ABP) – A traveling Southern Baptist evangelist and former camp pastor for LifeWay Christian Resources faces new charges of video voyeurism in a third mid-South community.
MINDEN, La. (ABP) -- A Louisiana Baptist camp director was arrested Oct. 7 for allegedly soliciting sexual favors and sending inappropriate photos of himself to a minor online.
EUFALA, Okla. (ABP) – An Oklahoma community reacted with shock to the arrest of a respected Southern Baptist pastor charged with molesting a teenage girl.
SANTA ANA, Calif. (ABP) -- Prosecutors in California sought public help in identifying possible additional victims of a former youth pastor under arrest on a charge of sexual assault.
VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. (ABP) -- The former financial of a Virginia Baptist Church has been arrested on charges that she embezzled nearly $300,000 in church funds over the course of years.
