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926: Ben Courson

Sexual Misconduct
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Ben Courson is a megachurch pastor who resigned from his church when it was revealed that he abused his position as pastor to pursue sexual relationships with women. One woman accused him of aggressively seeking a sexual relationship, forcibly kissing and touching her but she fought him off and got away. Two other women had sexual relationships that they acquiesced to, in part because he assured them that since he did not preach about sex, it was okay. Additionally, it wasn’t technically adultery, he claimed, as he masturbated and ejaculated on the women.

880: David Lynn Richards

Incest, Rape, Sexual Battery
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David Lynn Richards was the pastor of My Father’s House in Lenoir City, Tennessee. When his adopted daughter was sixteen years old, she told her guidance counselor that her father put her hand down his pants. The next day she had a forensic interview and revealed he had been raping her for two years. While he denied it and said it was motivated by defiance. However, police found his seminal fluid that matched his DNA on her bed frame.

878: David Lloyd Walther

Child Sexual Abuse Material
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David Lloyd Walther was the pastor of Faith Baptist Church, an anti-gay church in Round Rock, Texas. He also was arrested and faces federal charges for distribution, receipt, transportation and possession of child sexual abuse material. I am not going to write out what all he collected.

867: Kenneth Daniel

Child Indecency, Child Molestation, Child Rape
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Kenneth Daniel was the pastor of First Baptist Church in Chalkville, Alabama. After the Southern Baptist Convention released the SBC Sexual Abuse Task Force report in May 2022, he wrote, “I have served on staff in churches within the SBC over 38 years. I agree … this is tragic to victims and heartbreaking. Cases needed to be investigated. My question is about … releasing more information than necessary. … There is sexual misconduct in every profession, even churches. How do churches benefit from over exposure of poor leadership? Churches are struggling to keep doors open. How are we to evangelize and bring people to Christ?”

862: John W. Adams

Child Sexual Abuse Material
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John W. Adams was the pastor at the anti-gay Calvary Freewill Baptist Church in Darbydale, Ohio. In 2007, he was arrested by police at his home for downloading child sexual abuse material. He was caught because police were monitoring a CSAM website. A year later, he pleaded guilty and was sentenced to three years probation with no internet access and having to register as a sex offender.

838: David Farren

Child Molestation, Child Rape
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David Farren was the lead pastor of Anchor Church in Texarkana when he was arrested for crimes he committed as youth pastor at Heritage Baptist Church, also in Texarkana. Two women came forward to report they were raped by him when they attended his youth ministry classes.

833: John Grant

Enabling, Organizational Cover-Up, Rape Culture
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John Grant is the pastor of Calvary Gospel Church in Madison. He elevated himself to bishop in 2015. He is also accused of abetting child molesters in his church by shaming the children and women and enforcing their silence to remain in church. He made child rape victims apologize to the church for being raped.