The murder occurred in 2006. The senior pastor waited 19 years to go to the police. He knew his former employee had killed his wife to cover up ongoing sexual abuse at the church.
At the time of his arrest I’ll give you one guess where this guy was a working? At a private charter school as a school counselor. Here’s a video of him reading a book on empathy to children.
Clergy sexual abuse is endemic to churches because they refuse to stop it or put real systems in place to prevent it.
They systematically protect the abusers reputations as an extension off protecting the churches brand. In this case, the lead pastor protected a man he knew murdered his wife and sexually abused underaged girls for 19 years.
The former senior pastor is not a hero for going to the police. In my opinion he could be charged as an accessory after the fact because he hid it.
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