Leaders of the Southern Baptist Convention have released a 205-page list containing the names of hundreds of ministers and other church workers accused of sexual abuse.
– In 2009, Aaron, pastor of Grace Christian Fellowship and former pastor of Victory Baptist Church in Andalusia, agreed to consecutive life terms in prison for production of child pornography and first-degree sodomy of multiple 8-12-year-old males. He is a registered sex offender. Aaron was investigated in 2005 while pastor of a Southern Baptist church.
Charles Andrews – In 2006, Andrews, an ex-teacher and minister of a Baptist church in Jefferson County, received a sentence of probation after pleading guilty to sexually abusing a student in 2005. In 2008, after failing to respond to a lawsuit that accused Andrews, a federal judge ordered him to pay $2.5 million in punitive damages and $500,000 in compensation.
Charles Brown – In 1987, Brown, of London Baptist Church in Evergreen, was convicted of abusing a teenage boy in 1986. Brown was convicted of a reduced misdemeanor charge. He was given a suspended sentence. Jeffery Dale Eddie – A children’s minister at Highland Park Baptist Church in Muscle Shoals who pleaded guilty to 20 charges, including sodomy, sexual abuse of a child under 12 and possession of child pornography, according to federal civil court documents. He is serving a 30-year sentence in state prison.– A part-time youth employee at East Memorial Baptist Church in Prattville was convicted of enticing a child for immoral purposes in 2011 in Alabama. He is a registered sex offender in Florida.
Jerry Hutcheson – A pastor at Red Oak Baptist Church in Baker, Florida, Hutcheson was accused of sexually abusing an 86-year-old woman, He was convicted of first-degree sexual abuse in Alabama in 2007 and served four years in prison. He is a registered sex offender in Alabama. He previously registered in Tennessee based on a 2004 sexual abuse offense.
James “Javie” Vernon McNeal – He was a children’s minister with Bethlehem Baptist Church in Hazel Green. He was convicted of two felony sex offenses and sentenced to 40 years in 2018, according to Alabama prison records. He is currently incarcerated. Gary Ladell Smitherman – A youth minister for Friendship Baptist Church in Clanton, he was found guilty of one count of sexual abuse of a child. He was sentenced to 20 years in August 2018 and remains incarcerated in an Alabama state prison.
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