Bobi Gephart, the Indiana woman who confronted her pastor about having sex with her at 16, recalls years of living in mental ‘prison’ and coming clean to husband.
Photo shows Bobi Gephart and her husband, Nate Gephart, who accused their former pastor, John Lowe, of having sex with her when she was 16. ascended the stage of a Warsaw church to which she had dedicated decades of her life, including her formative years.
Just moments before Gephart confronted the crowd about what had happened when she was a teenager, Lowe offered his own version of the events. "His pastor in bed with his younger sister, a T-shirt and underwear on," she says, according to the video."The lies and the manipulation have to stop," she says. "I was a prisoner, and you kept me in your prison. I'm a prisoner no longer.""You can't just live your life trying to protect others. You also have to free yourself.
Lowe is facing the crowd of now-questioning congregants as Nate and Bobi Gephart descend from the stage.In response to an unintelligible question from the crowd, he responds: "It’s not all true." New Life said it was "hurting and broken for a woman who has lovingly attended and served in the church for many years, as well as for her husband and family."
Gephart described how her brother confronted her on May 9 about what he had seen when they were younger. That same day, Gephart said, she grew the strength to tell her husband. She described how she was kept "as a prisoner without bars in his life," and was not freed from Lowe’s "grasp" until she met her husband.
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