MONTGOMERY, Ala. (WSFA) – This week, high Southern Baptists launched a beforehand secret record of tons of of pastors and different church-affiliated personnel accused of sexual abuse. This nationwide database contained greater than 700 entries with circumstances largely spanning from 2000 to 2019.

No less than 35 entries on that record are from Alabama or have Alabama ties. There could also be extra names that aren’t identified, as a number of entries are redacted.

Beneath are the names and summaries offered within the record. All the data comes from the Southern Baptists’ record, which may be seen in its entirety right here. Some extra data was discovered by way of courtroom information and information experiences.

1. Ralph Lee Aaron – In 2009, Aaron, pastor of Grace Christian Fellowship and former pastor of Victory Baptist Church in Andalusia, agreed to consecutive life phrases in jail for manufacturing of kid pornography and first-degree sodomy of a number of 8-12-year-old males. He’s a registered intercourse offender. Aaron was investigated in 2005 whereas pastor of a Southern Baptist church.
2. Daniel Montague Acker Jr. – In 2012, Acker, a schoolteacher and faculty bus driver, who retired in 2009, admitted to sexually abusing 20 ladies throughout his 25-year tenure. He was sentenced to serve 17 years in jail for eight counts of kid sexual abuse. His launch date is scheduled for Jan. 1, 2029. In 1992, Acker was accused of touching a minor for sexual gratification. Nonetheless, the grand jury didn’t indict him. In 2016, he admitted to the 1992 abuse. In 1992, Acker was additionally serving as youth pastor at Westwood Baptist Church in Alabaster. He was additionally music and youth minister at Mayberry Baptist Church in Montevallo and served as a camp counselor on the Alabama Baptist Boys Camp.
3. Charles Kyle Adcock – Adcock was youth minister and worship pastor for Woodward Avenue Baptist Church in Muscle Shoals. In 2014, he was charged with 29 counts of rape and sodomy towards a teenage woman. Investigators say the incidents occurred between 2010-2012. He pleaded responsible in 2016 and was sentenced to a 10-year jail sentence, break up with 15 months to serve in state jail.
4. John Lankston Anderson Jr. – Anderson, a former pastor at Carbon Hill First Baptist, was charged with three counts of first-degree sexual abuse of juveniles below the age of 12. He pleaded responsible to all prices in 2002 and sentenced to 3 years. He instantly transferred to Arkansas, the place he pleaded responsible to a different intercourse abuse cost and was sentenced to 10 extra years. Anderson served jail sentences in each states. Anderson was a pulpit preacher at Southside in Russellville, Pure Bridge Baptist, West Blocton Baptist, Hartselle Baptist and different church buildings in Mississippi. He’s on the intercourse offender registry in Tennessee.
5. Charles Andrews – In 2006, Andrews, an ex-teacher and minister of a Baptist church in Jefferson County, acquired a sentence of probation after pleading responsible to sexually abusing a pupil in 2005. In 2008, after failing to reply to a lawsuit that accused Andrews, a federal choose ordered him to pay $2.5 million in punitive damages and $500,000 in compensation.
6. James L. Bevel – Bevel was a civil rights chief, an architect in Alabama’s civil rights historical past, and was with the American Baptist Theological Seminary. In 2005, Bevel was accused of abuse and later arrested. He was tried in April 2008 and convicted of illegal fornication. Information experiences present this conviction was incest. Pursuant to the jury’s suggestion, which might have sentenced him to wherever from 5 to twenty years, he was sentenced to fifteen years in jail and fined $50,000. He was freed after seven months whereas ready for an enchantment. He died of pancreatic most cancers in December 2008 and was buried in Eutaw.
7. Howard Blattel – This former Bolingbrook resident and Marquette Manor Baptist Church deacon was charged in Alabama with sexually assaulting an 89-year-old lady in 2004.
8. Walter John “Jay” Bowen – In 2010, Bowen, former minister of music at First Baptist Church in Spanish Fort and radio station proprietor and character, was arrested for sexual abuse of a kid youthful than 12 and sentenced to 10 years in jail primarily based on a plea settlement. That settlement dropped a second intercourse abuse case involving one other youngster youthful than 12. He has since been launched from jail and is listed as a registered intercourse offender in Alabama.
9. Gregory “Lee” Bowman – In 2010, Bowman, a well being and wellness minister for each grownup and youth recreation packages at Eden Westside Baptist Church in Pell Metropolis, pleaded responsible to second-degree sexual abuse of a teen and was sentenced to serve a 12-month break up sentence and required to serve 24 months on supervised probation. He’s a registered intercourse offender in Alabama.
10. 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 lowered misdemeanor cost. He was given a suspended sentence.
11. Fred Robert Chambers – In 1998, Chambers was convicted of 4 counts of second-degree sodomy with a 14-year-old boy. Chambers is probably a volunteer church chief, however the church was not named.
12. Stanley Daniel – In 2008, this pastor at El-Bethel Baptist Church and Pearls of Promise Ladies Academy in Rock Stand pleaded responsible to first-degree rape and first-degree sodomy and two counts of distribution of obscene materials.
13. Mack Allen Davis – In 2015, this former youth minister at Lakeside Baptist Church was sentenced to 35 years for 3 counts of sodomy and 4 counts of sexual abuse with victims in three totally different counties.
14. Garret Albert Dykes – In 2006, this former pastor at Calvary Baptist Church in Wetumpka pleaded responsible to 13 sex-related prices towards two ladies below age 10. He was sentenced to 262 months in a federal youngster porn case within the Center District of Alabama.
15. Jeffery Dale Eddie – A kids’s minister at Highland Park Baptist Church in Muscle Shoals who pleaded responsible to twenty prices, together with sodomy, sexual abuse of a kid below 12 and possession of kid pornography, in line with federal civil courtroom paperwork. He’s serving a 30-year sentence in state jail.
16. Zachary Reed Emerson – A component-time youth worker at East Memorial Baptist Church in Prattville was convicted of attractive a baby for immoral functions in 2011 in Alabama. He’s a registered intercourse offender in Florida.
17. Luis Federico Garcia – Garcia, a former pastor of Spanish ministries at First Baptist Church in Pelham, pleaded responsible in 2007 to 3 prices of first-degree sexual abuse involving three ladies youthful than 12 years previous. He’s a registered intercourse offender and lives within the Dominican Republic.
18. Jason Michael Hankins – This former workers member at Shades Crest Baptist Church and Household Life Middle in Birmingham was sentenced to 30 years in jail for sexual exploitation of a kid, plus 20 extra years of possessing youngster pornography. He’ll stay on supervised launch for the remainder of his life.
19. John Edgar Harris – Harris was an worker at Glynwood Baptist Church in Prattville. The church lists states he pleaded not responsible to prices of sexual assault and facilitating the journey of a kid for an illegal intercourse act. Courtroom information reveal he later pleaded responsible to assault as a substitute.
20. Henry Hobson – Hobson was a pastor at Moffett Street Baptist Church in Cell. In 1993, he admitted guilt for abusing a 14-year-old woman in 1991. Attorneys reached an settlement between Hobson and the sufferer simply earlier than a civil case went to jury.
21. Jerry Hutcheson – A pastor at Crimson Oak Baptist Church in Baker, Florida, Hutcheson was accused of sexually abusing an 86-year-old lady, He was convicted of first-degree sexual abuse in Alabama in 2007 and served 4 years in jail. He’s a registered intercourse offender in Alabama. He beforehand registered in Tennessee primarily based on a 2004 sexual abuse offense.
22. Michael Likos – Likos was a registered intercourse offender whereas being the church piano participant at Seventh Avenue Baptist Church in Cullman. Likos was registered as a intercourse offender after earlier convictions in Louisiana and Mississippi. He was convicted there for crossing a state line to have interaction in sexual contact with a minor. In 2006, Likos was indicted on first-degree sexual abuse.
23. Timothy Chun-Chuck Mann – He was a minister at First Baptist Church in Gaithersburg and choir director at Shades Crest Baptist Church in Hoover. He pleaded responsible to youngster abuse of a 14-year-old feminine in Maryland in 2008 and sentenced to 13 years with seven years in confinement with the remainder suspended, in line with Maryland courtroom information. He’s a registered intercourse offender in Alabama
24. Billy Paul Masters – This pastor at Harvest Baptist Church in Boaz was charged with first-degree sexual abuse of a boy below 12. He additionally confronted a parole violation in reference to a 2001 conviction of sodomy involving three boys. Following his launch from jail in 2007, Masters registered as a intercourse offender.
25. James “Javie” Vernon McNeal – He was a kids’s minister with Bethlehem Baptist Church in Hazel Inexperienced. He was convicted of two felony intercourse offenses and sentenced to 40 years in 2018, in line with Alabama jail information. He’s at the moment incarcerated.
26. Ralph Randall Melton – He was a pastor at Prospect Baptist Church in Wilsonville, in addition to at New Salem Baptist Church and Massive Springs Baptist Church in Chilton County. In 12005, he and his spouse, Cathy Melton, pleaded responsible to raping and sodomizing kids in 1975-1987. Their victims had been a 1-year-old male and 16-year-old feminine. They had been sentenced to greater than three months in jail adopted by 36 months probation and had been to register as intercourse offenders. He died in June 2018.
27. Donald Brent Web page – Web page held a number of youth ministry positions. He was a youth pastor at Dogwood Grove Baptist Church in Montevallo, a youth minister with Siluria Baptist Church in Alabaster and a youth employee for Hillcrest Baptist Church, which is now the River Church, in Birmingham. In 2007, he traveled from Alabama to Tennessee to have intercourse with what he regarded as a 13-year-old woman. It was really a Memphis FBI agent. He was charged with touring to Tennessee to have intercourse with a minor.
28. Marshal A. Seymour – He was a volunteer youth minister at FBC on the Mall in Lakeland, Florida and former youth minister at Parkway Meeting of God in Cell. He confronted prices in 2007 of illegal sexual exercise and three counts of utilizing a baby in sexual efficiency. The victims had been listed as a 17-year-old boy, 16-year-old boy and a 15-year-old. As a part of a plea settlement, he was convicted of three counts of illegal sexual exercise with a minor and one cost of directing sexual efficiency of a kid. He was sentenced to most of 10 years on every depend. He was launched in 2016. The church’s background test didn’t present a earlier 1999 Cell assault conviction, which was a misdemeanor. He’s a registered intercourse offender in Florida.
29. Gary Ladell Smitherman – A youth minister for Friendship Baptist Church in Clanton, he was discovered responsible of 1 depend of sexual abuse of a kid. He was sentenced to twenty years in August 2018 and stays incarcerated in an Alabama state jail.
30. Jay Clair Strickland – This former administrative pastor for Sharon Heights Baptist Church in Brookside was convicted of first-degree sodomy in 2016. He’s a registered intercourse offender.
31. Christopher Cody Stutts – Stutts, a former youth minister at Birmingham’s Westwood Baptist Church, was accused of sexual abuse of a kid below age 12 that lasted over three years. A grand jury indicted Stutts on the preliminary prices of sexual abuse of a kid youthful than 12 and second-degree sodomy. The grand jury additionally added extra prices of first-degree sodomy, second-degree rape and one other second-degree sodomy cost. Stutts was fired following his arrest.
32. Brandon Wade White – White was a youth group member and mentor at First Baptist Church in Nice Grove. He was accused of sending photos of his genitals to half a dozen boys between ages 13-17 earlier than being arrested in September 2016. He was convicted of possession of obscene matter in September 2018. He’s a registered intercourse offender in Alabama.
33. Patrick Jermone Whitehead – He’s the previous Huffman Excessive Faculty band director and music minister at Sixteenth Avenue Baptist Church. He pleaded responsible to a misdemeanor cost stemming from having intercourse with a 17-year-old pupil.
34. REDACTED NAME – In 2014, an unnamed assistant pastor at an unidentified church was charged with raping and sodomizing a 13-year-old. A second sufferer has led to extra prices. He additionally confronted prices of parole violation. In 2001, he was convicted on a first-degree theft change and served jail time from August 2002-2009. This was listed as being in Alabama.
35. REDACTED – An unnamed youth pastor was arrested on prices of inappropriate sexual relationship in 2010. The church was additionally unidentified however was listed below Alabama.

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