Report: Sexual Abuse Allegations Not Relayed when Former Youth Minister Worked for Second Wichita Area Church

Report: Sexual abuse allegations not relayed when former youth minister worked for second Wichita area church

A former student ministries director at Wichita’s Eastminster Presbyterian Church went on to work for a church in Andover without the second church knowing about sexual abuse allegations against him.

Former Wichita Youth Pastor Alleged To Have Abused at Least 23 Students

In a Father’s Day letter to congregants, a Presbyterian church in Wichita, Kansas, admitted it ignored multiple reports of child sexual abuse by its youth pastor in the 1990s and early 2000s. Eastminster Presbyterian Church paid a settlement to only one of the victims after a lawyer contacted the church threatening to sue, the letter said. The letter named former student ministries director, Bodie Weiss, as the man who groomed and sexually abuse…

Eastminster Presbyterian Church Should Release From an NDA Any Victim Who Settled a Child Sex Abuse Claim Against the Church | The Wartburg Watch 2024

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