The chief committee of the Southern Baptist Conference on Thursday night time launched a 205 web page listing of alleged intercourse abusers.

The listing incorporates at the very least 33 ministers that served in Alabama church buildings or had ties to the state.

The discharge of the listing comes after a scathing 288-page investigative report issued Sunday confirmed the most important Protestant denomination in America stonewalled and denigrated survivors of clergy intercourse abuse over virtually twenty years whereas searching for to guard their very own reputations.

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The seven-month investigation was carried out by Guidepost Options, an unbiased agency contracted by the Government Committee.

“We’re releasing the listing within the actual type that it was supplied to Guidepost Options by an Government Committee workers member,” an announcement accompanying the listing learn.

Nonetheless, many entries have been redacted both partly or of their entirety.

Entries that weren’t redacted in any respect have been people who ended with a conviction, responsible plea, an act of contrition, a court docket ruling towards the minister or their inclusion on the intercourse offender registry.

Entries that “didn’t point out a disposition” have been redacted, the assertion added.

Lots of the entries got here from a database compiled by the Houston Chronicle throughout its 2019 investigation of sexual abuse throughout the Southern Baptist Church.

“There will probably be extra exhaustive analysis and evaluation of the redacted entries and we anticipate a few of the redacted entries will probably be launched sooner or later.”

The Related Press contributed to this report. This can be a creating story and will probably be up to date.

Listed here are the Alabama ministers listed within the report.

• In 2009, Ralph Lee Aaron, 54, 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consecutive life phrases in jail for manufacturing of kid pornography and first-degree sodomy of a number of 8-12 yr –outdated males. He’s a Registered Intercourse Offender. Aaron was investigated in 2005 whereas pastor of a Southern Baptist church.
• In 2012, Daniel Montague Acker, Jr. ,a college instructor 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 8 counts of kid sexual abuse. Launch date is scheduled for January 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.

Acker was a well known determine in Shelby County and the son of a county commissioner.

• In 2014, Charles Kyle Adcock was youth minister and worship pastor for Woodward Avenue Baptist Church in Muscle Shoals from 2010-2012. He pleaded responsible in 2016 and was charged with 29 counts of rape and sodomy towards a teenage woman. Adcock was sentenced to a 10-year jail sentence, cut up with 15 months to serve in state jail. He registered as a intercourse offender in Arkansas for the sodomy conviction.
• In 2002, John Lankston Anderson Jr., former pastor, Carbon Hill First Baptist, was charged with three counts of first-degree sexual abuse of juveniles beneath the age of 12, pleaded responsible to all expenses and sentenced to a few yrs. Instantly transferred to Arkansas, the place he pleaded responsible to a different intercourse abuse cost and was sentenced to 10 extra years. Served jail sentences in each states. He was a pulpit preacher at Southside in Russellville, Pure Bridge Baptist, West Blocton Baptist, Hartselle Baptist, and different church buildings in Mississippi. He pleaded responsible in 2002 to a few counts of sexual abuse in Alabama and was sentenced to a few years. Instantly transferred to Arkansas, the place he pleaded responsible to a different intercourse abuse cost and was sentenced to 10 extra years. Served jail sentences in each states. He’s on the intercourse offender registry in Tennessee.
• In 2006, Charles Andrews, an ex-teacher and minister of a Baptist church in Jefferson County, acquired a sentence of probation after pleading responsible in 2006, for sexually abusing a pupil in 2005. In 2008, after failing to answer a lawsuit which accused Charles Andrews, a federal decide ordered Andrews to pay $2.5 million in punitive damages and $500,000 in compensation. “Can’t discover the identify of the church,” the listing states.
• In 2014, REDACTED, assistant pastor, REDACTED, was charged with raping and sodomizing a 13-year-old. A second sufferer has led to extra expenses. He additionally confronted expenses of parole violation. In 2001, he was convicted on a primary diploma theft change and served jail time from August 2002-2009.
• James L. Bevel: “Don’t suppose he was SBC,” the listing states. “Bevel attended American Baptist Theological Seminary In 2005 Bevel was accused of REDACTED by REDACTED and abuse by three others. He was tried in April 2008. Bevel was convicted of illegal fornication; pursuant to the advice of the jury, which might have sentenced him to anyplace from 5 to twenty years, he was sentenced to fifteen years in jail and fined $50,000. After serving seven months he was freed awaiting an attraction; he died of pancreatic most cancers in December 2008. He was buried in Eutaw, Alabama,” the listing added.

Bevel was a high lieutenant to Martin Luther King Jr. and architect of the 1963 Kids’s Campaign in Birmingham whose legacy was clouded by an incest conviction.

• Howard Blattel, a 65-year-old former Bolingbrook resident and Marquette Manor Baptist Church deacon, was charged in Alabama with sexually assaulting an 89-year-old girl in 2004.
• In 2010, Walter Jay Bowen, 68, former minister of music and radio station proprietor and character, was arrested for sexual abuse of a kid youthful than 12 and sentenced to 10 years in jail based mostly on a plea settlement which dropped a second intercourse abuse case involving one other baby youthful than 12. He was convicted of sexual abuse of a kid lower than 12 years outdated and sentenced to 10 years. As a part of the plea discount, prosecutors agreed to drop a second intercourse abuse case. Incarcerated. His jail launch date was in 2019 and he’s listed in Alabama as a registered intercourse offender.
• In 2010, Gregory “Lee” Bowman, 30, well being and wellness minister for each grownup and youth recreation applications at Eden Westside Baptist Church in Pell Metropolis, pleaded responsible to second-degree sexual abuse of a 14-year-old juvenile and was sentenced to serve a 12-month cut up sentence and required to serve 24 months on supervised probation. He pleaded responsible to second-degree sexual abuse in August 2010 and is a a registered intercourse offender in Alabama.
• In 1987, Charles Brown, of London Baptist Church in Evergreen, was convicted of abusing a teenage boy in 1986. Brown was convicted of a diminished misdemeanor cost and given a suspended sentence.
• Fred Robert Chambers in 1998 was convicted of 4 counts of sodomy with a 14-year-old boy. He was a volunteer church chief; the church was not named.
• In 2008, Stanley Daniel, pastor of 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.”
• Mack Allen Davis, former youth minister, Lakeside Baptist Church, was sentenced to 35 years in 2015 for 3 counts of sodomy and 4 counts of sexual abuse, with victims in three completely different counties, His is within the Alabama state jail.
• In 2006, Garret Albert Dykes, 38, former pastor of Calvary Baptist Church in Wetumpka, pleaded responsible to 13 intercourse associated expenses towards two ladies beneath the age of 10. He was sentenced to 262 months in federal jail.
• In 2014, Jeffery Dale Eddie, kids’s minister of Highland Park Baptist Church in Muscle Shoals, pleaded responsible to twenty expenses, together with sodomy, sexual abuse of a kid beneath 12 and possession of kid pornography, in keeping with federal civil court docket paperwork. He’s serving a 30-year sentence in Alabama state jail.
• Zachary Reed Emerson, a part-time youth worker at East Memorial Baptist Church, in Prattville, was convicted of attractive a baby for immoral functions in Alabama in 2011. He’s a registered intercourse offender in Florida.
• Luis Federico Garcia, pastor of Spanish ministries at First Baptist Church in Pelham, pleaded responsible to a few expenses of first-degree sexual abuse involving three ladies youthful than 12 years outdated. He’s a registered intercourse offender after he was convicted in 2007 of three counts of sexual abuse in Shelby County. The sufferer was an 8-year-old feminine. “Lives within the Dominican Republic,” the listing states.
• In 2016, Jason Michael Hankins, a former workers member at Shades Crest Baptist Church’s Household Life Heart in Birmingham, was sentenced to 30 years in jail for sexual exploitation of a kid, plus 20 extra years of possessing baby pornography. He’ll stay on supervised launch for the remainder of his life.
• In 2017, John Edgar Harris, a former worker of Glynwood Baptist Church in Prattville, pleaded not responsible to expenses of sexual assault and facilitating the journey of a kid for an illegal intercourse act. As of Nov. 2, 2018, no court docket date has been set.
• In 1993, Henry Hobson, pastor of Moffett Highway Baptist Church in Cell, 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,” the listing states.
• Michael Likos was a registered intercourse offender whereas being the church piano participant at Seventh Avenue Baptist Church in Cullman. Likos had earlier convictions in Louisiana and Mississippi for crossing a state line to have interaction in sexual contact with a minor. In 2006, Likos was indicted on sexual abuse within the first diploma.
• “2010 REDACTED, youth pastor, REDACTED, arrested on expenses of inappropriate sexual relationship,” the listing states.
• Timothy Chun-Chuck Mann, minister at First Baptist Church in Gaithersburg and choir director at Shades Crest Baptist Church in Hoover, is now a registered intercourse offender in Alabama. He pleaded responsible to baby abuse of a 14-year-old feminine in Maryland in 2008 and was sentenced to 13 years with seven years in confinement with the remainder suspended, in keeping with Maryland court docket information.
• Billy Paul Masters, pastor of Harvest Baptist Church in Boaz, was charged with first-degree sexual abuse of a boy beneath 12. He additionally confronted a parole violation in reference to 2001 conviction of sodomy involving three boys. Following his launch from jail in 2007, Masters registered as a intercourse offender.
• James “Javie” Vernon McNeal, kids’s minister of Bethlehem Baptist Church in Hazel Inexperienced, was convicted of two felony intercourse offenses and sentenced to 40 years in 2018, in keeping with Alabama jail information.
• In 2004, Ralph Randall Melton, pastor of Prospect Baptist Church in Wilsonville in 2004 and former pastor of New Salem Baptist Church and Massive Springs Baptist Church in Chilton County and his spouse have been charged and pleaded responsible to raping and sodomizing kids in 1975-87. They have been sentenced to greater than three months in jail adopted by 36 months probation and have been to register as intercourse offenders. Previous to his loss of life on June 14, 2018, collectively together with his spouse, Cathy, have been each registered intercourse offenders for baby rape convictions in Alabama in 2005. (Cathy Melton remains to be a registered intercourse offender). Their victims have been a 1-year-old male and 16-year-old feminine.
• In 2007, Douglas Myers, 57, former pastor of Triangle Neighborhood Church in Tavares, Florida, and former pastor of Harbor Baptist Fellowship in Eustis, Florida and Harmony Baptist Church in Russellville, and Bayside Baptist Church in Chesapeake Seaside pleaded responsible for abusing a 13-year- outdated boy, a church members’ grandson, in 2006. He was sentenced to 7 years in jail in Florida in 2007. After being launched, he was convicted in 2012 in Maryland of kid abuse for offenses that occurred in 1997, 1999 and 2001. He’s serving a 15-year sentence in Maryland and confronted a associated civil lawsuit.
• In 2007, Donald Brent Web page, 33, was former youth pastor, Dogwood Grove Baptist Church in Montevallo, and former youth minister of Siluria Baptist Church in Alabaster and youth employee at Hillcrest Baptist Church in Birmingham (now The River Church). In 2007, traveled from Alabama to Tennessee to have intercourse with what he considered a 13-year-old woman however was really a Memphis FBI Crimes In opposition to Kids Job Power Member. He was charged with touring to to have intercourse with minor.
• In 2007, Marshal A. Seymour, 40, a volunteer youth minister at FBC on the Mall in Lakeland, Florida, and former youth minister at Parkway Meeting of God in Cell, confronted expenses of illegal sexual exercise and three counts of utilizing a baby in a sexual efficiency. He pleaded responsible to assault. The church background verify didn’t present a earlier 1999 Cell assault conviction which was a misdemeanor. In 1999, Seymour moved to Lakeland and started volunteering at FBC on the Mall. He’s a registered intercourse offender in Florida. 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 launched in 2016.
• Gary Ladell Smitherman, a youth minister at Friendship Baptist Church in Clanton, was discovered responsible of 1 rely of sexual abuse of a kid and sentenced to twenty years in 2018. He’s incarcerated in Alabama.
• Jay Clair Strickland, a former administrative pastor of Sharon Heights Baptist Church in Brookside, was convicted of first-degree sodomy in Jefferson County in 2016. He’s a registered intercourse offender.
• In 2018, Christopher Cody Stutts, a youth minister at Westwood Baptist Church in Birmingham, was arrested for sexual abuse of a kid beneath age 12 over the course of greater than three years. A grand jury heard indicted Stutts on the preliminary expenses of sexual abuse of a kid youthful than 12 and second-degree sodomy. The grand jury additionally added extra expenses of first-degree sodomy, second-degree rape and one other second-degree sodomy cost. Stutts was fired following his arrest.

Corrected at 10:50 p.m. to point out it was 33 ministers.