sex abuse

A Manhattan federal jury has ordered former President Donald Trump to pay writer E. Jean Carroll $5 million for battery and defamation for sexually assaulting her in the spring of 1996.

Former Southern Baptist Theological Seminary President Paige Patterson and Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary have been dismissed from a sexual abuse lawsuit against Southern Baptist Convention Executive Committee member Paul Pressler.

A federal judge in Texas dismissed a lawsuit involving a student who accused a former Southern Baptist Convention leader and an SBC-affiliated seminary of mishandling a case of sexual abuse.

The Southern Baptist Convention's Abuse Reform Implementation Task Force announced this week that a "ministry check" site will be launched by Guidepost Solutions.

Todd Benkert, a Southern Baptist pastor who was on the Southern Baptist Convention’s task force to address sexual abuse policies, has stepped down from the team.

The defense team on the side of Hillsong Church founder Brian Houston only presented one witness – Houston himself – to show Houston's innocence, Houston's wife, Bobbie, said.

Bart Barber, president of the Southern Baptist Convention, said the financial cost of a new abuse hotline for the SBC is “worth it.”

“The cost of doing nothing” outweighs “the cost of doing something,” he asserted.

Former Southern Baptist Convention president Johnny Hunt preached at a Florida church Sunday, seven months after SBC messengers adopted a report saying he had been credibly accused of sexually assaulting a woman in 2010.

The International Churches of Christ is facing a lawsuit filed by five California women for allegedly covering up child sexual abuse and pressuring group members to give money.

The Southern Baptist Convention’s Abuse Reform Implementation Task Force released an update just before Christmas on policies that would address sexual abuse within the denomination.