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Nathan Anthony St. Pierre Named in Southern Baptist Abuse Database

Was Nathan Anthony St. Pierre Listed in SBC Abuse Investigation Report? Nathan Anthony St. Pierre, a choir director at Evansville’s Washington Avenue Baptist Church, was charged with 12 counts of sexual misconduct with a minor, a 14-year-old girl. In Indiana, he pleaded guilty to three…

By Jeff Gibson Esq.

/ 17 Jun 2022

Nathan Anthony St. Pierre Named in Southern Baptist Abuse Database

Bernard Squires Named in SBC List of Abusers

Was Bernard Squires Named in Southern Baptist Abuse Report? Bernard Squires, pastor of Grace Baptist Church in Columbia City, Indiana, was charged with child pornography distribution. He pleaded guilty to the charge of child pornography distribution and was sentenced to 151 months in federal prison.

By Jeff Gibson Esq.

/ 17 Jun 2022

Bernard Squires Named in SBC List of Abusers

Joseph Jermaine Spencer Named in SBC Abuse Database

Was Joseph Jermaine Spencer Listed in Southern Baptist List of Abusers? Joseph Jermaine Spencer was an assistant pastor and music director at Mountain View Community Church in Temecula, California, in 2011. He was arrested and charged with raping a 16-year-old girl. He received a three-year…

By Bobby Thompson Esq.

/ 17 Jun 2022

Joseph Jermaine Spencer Named in SBC Abuse Database

Rodolfo Sosa in Southern Baptist Convention List of Abusers

Was Rodolfo Sosa Named in SBC Abuse Database? Rodolfo Sosa, pastor of Ciudad del Refugio Church in Austin, was found guilty on five counts of indecency with a child by contact and one count of indecency with a child by exposure. He faced up to…

By Anjali Nigam Esq.

/ 17 Jun 2022

Rodolfo Sosa in Southern Baptist Convention List of Abusers

Derek L Smittle Named in Southern Baptist Abuse Database

Was Derek L Smittle Listed in SBC Abuse Investigation Report? Derek L Smittle, a youth volunteer at First Baptist Church in Centerton, AR, was arrested on January 14, 2019, for first-degree sexual assault involving a sexual relationship with a 17-year-old churchgoer. Despite the pastor’s claim…

By Joshua Gillespie Esq.

/ 17 Jun 2022

Derek L Smittle Named in Southern Baptist Abuse Database

Gary Ladell Smitherman Listed in SBC Abuse Investigation Report

Was Gary Ladell Smitherman Named in Southern Baptist List of Abusers? Gary Ladell Smitherman served as the youth minister at Friendship Baptist Church in Clanton, Alabama. In August 2018, he was found guilty of one count of child sexual abuse and sentenced to 20 years…

By Greg Zarzaur Esq.

/ 17 Jun 2022

Gary Ladell Smitherman Listed in SBC Abuse Investigation Report

Curtis Jene Smith Named in Southern Baptist Convention List of Abusers

Was Curtis Jene Smith Listed in the SBC Abuse Investigation Report? Curtis Jene Smith, a music director and Bible teacher at Zion Hill Missionary Baptist Church in Waco, TX, pleaded guilty to child abuse in 2005 and was sentenced to 20 years in prison. He…

By Anjali Nigam Esq.

/ 17 Jun 2022

Curtis Jene Smith Named in Southern Baptist Convention List of Abusers

Sherman R. Smith Named in SBC Abuse Investigation Report

Was Sherman R. Smith Listed in Southern Baptist Abuse Database? Sherman R. Smith, pastor of Bibleway Missionary Baptist Church in New Orleans, Louisiana, and Second Highway Baptist Church in Marrero, Louisiana, was charged with rape or sexual abuse of at least seven juvenile victims in 2001.…

By Joshua Gillespie Esq.

/ 15 Jun 2022

Sherman R. Smith Named in SBC Abuse Investigation Report

Frank William Sizemore Listed in Southern Baptist List of Abusers

Was Frank William Sizemore Named in SBC Abuse Database? Frank William Sizemore, of the Dallas, TX area and a former pastor of a Baptist General Convention of Texas affiliated church, was exposed in 1994 for indecency with a 12-year-old girl. He is listed in the Texas…

By Anjali Nigam Esq.

/ 15 Jun 2022

Frank William Sizemore Listed in Southern Baptist List of Abusers

Murrvin Sheppard Named in Southern Baptist List of Abusers

Was Murrvin Sheppard Named in SBC Investigation Report? Murrvin Sheppard, pastor of Mount Bethel Missionary Baptist Church in Miscanopy, FL, was arrested in 2016 for sexually assaulting a female victim under the age of 12. The incident is said to have occurred in his office.…

By Michael Haggard Esq.

/ 15 Jun 2022

Murrvin Sheppard Named in Southern Baptist List of Abusers

Richard Frank Shaw Listed in SBC Abuse Investigation Report

Was Richard Frank Shaw Named in Southern Baptist List of Abusers? Richard Frank Shaw, a former youth minister at Middlesboro, Kentucky’s Chester Avenue Baptist Church, pleaded guilty to third-degree unlawful transaction with a 17-year-old girl. Southern Baptist Abuse Database According to the Washin

By Johnny Bruce Esq.

/ 15 Jun 2022

Richard Frank Shaw Listed in SBC Abuse Investigation Report

Eddie Shauberger Named in SBC List of Abusers

Was Eddie Shauberger Listed in The Southern Baptist Convention Abuse Investigation Report? Eddie Shauberger, former pastor of Oak Island Baptist Church in Anahuac, TX, received a two-year deferred adjudication sentence after pleading guilty to one count of tampering with a governmental record. As pa

By Anjali Nigam Esq.

/ 15 Jun 2022

Eddie Shauberger Named in SBC List of Abusers