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Southern Baptists Vote to Create Database Tracking Pastors, Church Employees Accused of Sexual Abuse

June 15, 2022
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The Southern Baptist Convention (SBC) voted on June 14 to create a “ministry check” website to track pastors and other church workers credibly accused of sexual abuse following a report that revealed how leaders had mishandled sexual abuse cases for years. In May, Southern Baptist leaders published a nearly 300-page report (pdf) conducted by an independent firm detailing decades…

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5th Worker Charged With Sex Abuse at Federal Women’s Prison

March 23, 2022
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WASHINGTON—A fifth worker at a federal women’s prison in California has been charged with sexually abusing an inmate, and prosecutors say more arrests are expected at the lockup. Enrique Chavez, a food service foreman at the federal correctional institution in Dublin, California, is accused of touching an inmate’s breasts, buttocks, and genitals on two separate…

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RCMP Say 47 Canadians Arrested, 12 Children Rescued in Global Sex Abuse Operation

March 2, 2022
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Forty-seven Canadians have been arrested and 12 children have been removed from abusive situations as part of a global investigation into online child sexual exploitation, the RCMP said Wednesday. The Mounties said 186 charges have been laid in Canada so far during the investigation, dubbed Operation H. Arrests have been made in eight provinces over…

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