Baptist predator victim wins and still has to go back to court

Clerical sex abuse victims are repeatedly retraumatized in court, albeit not usually to degree of a Lake County, Florida, man.

Jurors in May found "the Florida Baptist Convention liable for a former pastor who sexually abused a 13-year-old boy,” but at least part of the blame for his abuse "rested with the Florida Baptist Association."

Now the question of what organization is financially liable for the abuse inflicted by Southern Baptist pastor Douglas Myers is to go back to court again, possibly twice.

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Southern Baptists have made it almost impossible to get any kind of verdict against a state convention, despite a proliferation of issues like those raised in the Myers case..

Want to know more? Christa Brown explains how the Southern Baptist Convention masks its clerical sex abuse problems [.pdf].