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.
A Missouri Baptist minister has been acquitted in a child molestation charge heard in Miller County Sept. 18. The yearlong case ended after jurors deliberated for less than an hour.
EUFALA, Okla. (ABP) – An Oklahoma community reacted with shock to the arrest of a respected Southern Baptist pastor charged with molesting a teenage girl.
ST. LOUIS (ABP) -- A Southern Baptist pastor in St. Louis faces between five and 15 years in prison on charges that he inappropriately touched a child younger than 4.
FRANKLIN, Ind. (ABP) -- A former Southern Baptist pastor in central Indiana has been sentenced to 10 years in prison for molesting a 15-year-old church member in a relationship that began with him counseling the girl because she was not getting along with her mother.