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Four Decades of Predatory Sexual Abuse by Prominent Southern Baptist Leader and Judge

A major investigative report on the life of Paul Pressler, the former judge and Southern Baptist Church leader who died on June 7, 2024 at the age of 94, was just published in the TexasMonthly, documenting four decades of predatory sexual abuse within the Southern Baptist Church. The author is Robert Downen, who was one of the lead reporters who exposed massive sex abuse in the Southern Baptist Churches among their pastors and leaders back in 2019 in the Houston Chronicle. In his recently published article at TexasMonthly on the life of Paul Pressler, titled: "He Remade the Southern Baptist Convention in His Image. Then Came the Abuse Allegations." - Downen gives an update on attempts to implement reforms to protect victims of sexual predators in the Southern Baptist Convention since his article shook the very foundations of the Southern Baptist Convention (SBC), where most of these pedophiles continue to pastor churches and still maintain leadership roles within the SBC. As he chronicles the life Paul Pressler who was a founder of the modern Evangelical Christian Conservative movement, he shows how sexual abuse charges were routinely swept under the rug and then blamed on "liberals" who they claimed were attacking them on their Conservative religious and political views. This was an incredibly written piece of investigative journalism! I learned quite a bit from it. For example, he documents how those who exposed and were victims to the predatory sexual abuse among Catholic Priests, which became widely reported in the corporate news after the Boston Globe's exposure of them, which was made into a movie, also tried to warn leaders in the Southern Baptist Convention that the same things were happening in their churches, but their warnings fell on deaf ears. The SBC is the largest Protestant denomination in the U.S., second only to the Catholic Church. Downen shows just how powerful Paul Pressler, who was also a Judge in Texas, was in influencing Conservative politics in the U.S. during the Reagan and Bush presidencies where covering up sexual abuse and child sex trafficking became the norm, and has continued to this day in Trump's second term, where we know so much more now because of the release of the Jeffrey Epstein files.

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Southern Baptist Church: Leader in Foster Care and Adoption – Home to Pedophiles

Southern Baptists are the largest Protestant Christian denomination in the U.S., numbering more than 47,000 churches with over 15 million church members. Only the Catholic Church has more members in the U.S. As with the Catholic Church, the Southern Baptist Convention (SBC) is an integral part of the American foster care and adoption system. Due to its size, one could say the American foster care system would be severely crippled without the involvement of the SBC, which partners with many local organizations across the U.S. to provide foster care and adoption services, primarily through its North American Mission Board, and its "Send Relief" program. We have documented very clearly here at Health Impact News that the foster care system in the U.S. is a billion dollar child trafficking system, and over 85% of child sex trafficking victims are under the control of Child "Protective" Services who take children out of their homes and place them into foster care or with adoptive parents. When Lisa Wheeler wrote an article for the National Review last year titled “Pro-Life Should Include Foster Care, Too,” criticizing American churches for not participating more in state-sponsored foster care programs, we wrote our rebuttal asking why the church would participate in such an evil program? Sadly, as we have previously reported about the Catholic Church and Independent Baptist Churches, child sex abuse by pastors and youth leaders is widespread among Southern Baptists also. A six month investigation by the Houston Chronicle and San Antonio Express-News has found widespread child sex abuse by over 220 Southern Baptist leaders against more than 700 victims since 1998. And these are just the cases that have reached the courts and are a matter of public record. How many others have been covered up and never been reported?

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