Aaron Duane Shipman was the pastor of Bible Baptist Church in Odessa, Texas. In January, 2022, he was arrested for sexual assault of a minor. On January 17th, 2022, an eighteen-year-old woman went to police to report that she had been raped the night before by her pastor, who had been sexually assaulting her repeatedly since she was sixteen. They did a rape exam and found evidence of sexual trauma. He was arrested on the 20th.
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The Odessa American
Odessa, Texas · Friday, January 21, 2022