[torgian]

I remember when I was a teen, the church we went to had an elderly couple that taught “Awana”, a children’s group.

A few months the after they started teaching, their daughters, upon turning 18, accused their parents of sexual abuse.

The church tried to keep it quiet and said “we cannot judge. God will judge weather it is truth or falsehood.” And they allowed the elderly couple to continue teaching children.

I don’t know what happened after that since I decided to stop going to church after that.

Bullshit like this happens more often than people think.

[rayiner]

Our daughter’s (very liberal and secular) school recently launched an investigation into sexual abuse of students by teachers over a period of many years back in the 1970s. It was well known at the time, of course, people just were discouraged from making waves or doing anything about it. Sexual abuse was widespread back then, and it was uniformly suppressed, regardless of the sort of community. (Frankly, it still is.)

[euroclydon]

Small churches have even less accountability, structure and resources than small municipalities, who routinely abuse their criminal justice responsibilities.

The Southern Baptist Convention is finally looking to dedicate some of their resources to investigations and action on the sexual abuse that's been happening in their (very loosely affiliated churches), but it will be tough sledding.

https://www.tennessean.com/story/news/religion/2019/02/18/so...

[JustSomeNobody]

> Bullshit like this happens more often than people think.

I would argue that this does not. I don't know anyone who goes to church who would have allowed this to go on without alerting the authorities. Assuming your recollection is true, this was just a group of bad people being bad under the false pretense of being a "Church".

Look, bad people are everywhere. And just because someone calls himself a Christian doesn't mean he is.