Read Part One HERE
Here is my fifth post on abuse in Southern Baptist churches in the US. In this post as well as in the next post I want to focus on Paige Patterson, a very influential man in the Southern Baptist world.
The ex-president of Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary in Forth Worth, Paige Patterson, has formally denied allegations in a federal lawsuit filed by a former student who says Patterson and others threatened and intimidated her when she reported being raped on campus in 2015.
Among other things, the former student, identified only as Jane Roe, alleges that during meetings Patterson violated her privacy and failed to ensure her safety by disclosing information about her complaint directly to her attacker. She also claims in her lawsuit that Patterson intimidated and humiliated her by asking for intimate details about the alleged rapes. Patterson also allegedly told Roe that the rape was a "good thing" because "the right man would not care if she was a virgin or not," and disclosed the abuses to seminary faculty without her consent, according to the suit.
In his formal answer, Patterson categorically denied the allegations, and claimed he lacked "knowledge or information sufficient to form a belief as to the truth or falsity of these allegations."
Patterson is nationally known as a Southern Baptist leader and former president of the Southern Baptist Convention. But he was removed as the school president by the seminary's board of trustees in 2018 after the trustees found problems with his handling of complaints made by several women, including Roe's.
Read Part Seven HERE
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