A Southern Baptist pastor and former seminary official, Matthew Queen, has been charged with obstructing a federal sex abuse probe. The indictment is the first against an entity of the Southern Baptist Convention, part of a Justice Department investigation into hundreds of abuse cases within the denomination. Another Southern Baptist provost was indicted for falsifying records in an alleged abuse cover-up. Additionally, a former Southern Baptist professor is accused of attempting to cover up a sexual misconduct incident at a Texas seminary.
“During my employment at the seminary, I was present during a conversation of interest to investigators and was interviewed about my recollection of that conversation,” he said in a statement. https://t.co/0aiSEj8EjT
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Mr. Queen is accused of lying about his involvement in a meeting at the seminary in which an employee was ordered to destroy a November 2022 document describing allegations of sexual abuse. https://t.co/0aiSEj8EjT
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A former Southern Baptist professor has been accused by the Justice Dept. of trying to rewrite history by helping co-workers at the Texas seminary where he taught make a report of an alleged sexual misconduct incident “go away.” https://t.co/e3GcSaSgGI
The indictment is the first filed against an entity of the Southern Baptist Convention, which federal officials have been investigating since August 2022 following revelations of hundreds of abuse cases within the denomination. https://t.co/upRVurVOcM
A Southern Baptist pastor in Greensboro, North Carolina, was arraigned in federal district court in New York City Tuesday on charges he falsified records in a sexual abuse case, part of the Justice Department's probe of the nation's largest Protestant... https://t.co/gMjK0YVrKd
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