$1 million lawsuit accuses the SBC and Houston's Champion Forest Baptist of negligence while a youth pastor committed crimes of sexual abuse against minors in the church
Three Jane Does who claim they were sexually abused as minors by a youth pastor at Champion Forest Baptist sued the Houston megachurch and the Southern Baptist Convention (SBC) last week, alleging negligence and seeking more than $1 million in damages, the Houston Chronicle reported.
The suit alleges the church and the SBC failed to protect the girls from the abuse. “In what has sadly become an all too familiar story, this case involves stolen childhoods and shattered faith,” Houston-based attorney Rusty Hardin wrote in the suit filed April 19 in Harris County District Court.