“A background check would’ve caught this,” one church member said. “It blew me away. How did this happen?'
A former member of Grace River Community Church in Decatur said Tuesday that he left the church after one of its leaders was arrested and charged with electronic solicitation of a child and violating the Sex Offenders Registration and Community Notification Act.
Madison police did not say when or where the prior sex-offense conviction alleged to be the basis of his Sex Offenders Registration and Community Notification Act charge took place. The profile also says McCall was responsible for computer safety training for youths and for complying “with all Alabama state licensing and local regulations for health and safety, including all criminal background checks and child abuse index.”
Harris said that when he asked church leaders if they had run a background check on McCall, they told him no. “I was not part of the youth services, but my daughter said that McCall was,” Harris said. “He was there when they were at youth service all the time. To my knowledge, it was never just him alone with anybody or anything like that.”
Harris said the response, or lack thereof, by church leaders played a role in his decision to leave the congregation.“Gal 6:1-3 nothing else to say,” the text said.“This could’ve been way worse,” Harris said. “There are good people in the church, and they didn’t do this. At the same time, this is just something you can’t not talk about.”
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