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Inside the Investigation into Child Sexual Abuse at Sovereign Grace
Key Excerpts from Article on Website of Time


Time, February 16, 2016
Posted: February 22nd, 2016
http://time.com/4226444/child-sex-abuse-evangelical-church/

Child sex abuse in the Catholic Church is now widely known. Similar abuses in evangelical communities have not received the same public scrutiny. The February issue of Washingtonian Magazine featured an expos of long-buried sexual abuse of children in a prominent evangelical church network, Sovereign Grace Ministries. Freelance journalist Tiffany Stanley, a 2015 National Magazine Award finalist, spent 10 months uncovering reports of child rape and molestation in Sovereign Grace churches over the last three decades, particularly in the community of the then-flagship Covenant Life Church in Gaithersburg, Maryland. Her investigation, The Sex Scandal that Devastated a Suburban Megachurch, chronicles the inside story of crimes against children in D.C.-area Sovereign Grace churches, explores how church leaders including founder C.J. Mahaney did and did not respond, and recounts how victims mothers joined forces to seek justice. The churches, for the most part, declined to cooperate. Some church leaders expressed that they wanted the story to go away, so the community could move on. Susan Burke, the lawyer for the victims, has said she wants to file another lawsuit in Virginia. That suit wouldnt involve all the original plaintiffs because some are too old to file suits. It may be too late to get justice for all of the Sovereign Grace plaintiffs, but they want the laws to change for future victims.

Note: Watch an excellent segment by Australia's "60-Minutes" team titled "Spies, Lords and Predators" on a pedophile ring in the UK which leads directly to the highest levels of government. A second suppressed documentary, "Conspiracy of Silence," goes even deeper into this sad subject in the US. For more along these lines, see concise summaries of deeply revealing sexual abuse scandal news articles from reliable major media sources.


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