But of course, now the shame is lauded as "courage".
A Georgia prosecutor slammed two charismatic pastors associated with President Donald Trump for failing to report an employee who sexually molested a 15-year-old boy two years ago.
“Parents should be able to trust that church leaders will protect children,” Cherokee County Assistant District Attorney Leyna Pope said in a press release Friday. “Silence and inaction only deepen the harm. Protecting children must always come first.”
The mother of a teenager who attends Worship With Wonders Church went to pastors Myles and DeLana Rutherford in September 2023 with accusations, prosectors say. She told them her 15-year-old son had exchanged more than 12,500 text messages — some obscene — with Marcus Kendall Turner, a leader in the church.
When the Rutherfords didn’t react quickly enough, the mother called 911.