A pastor connected to the sexual assault case of Highpoint Church Teaching Pastor Andy Savage has resigned from his Texas-based church.
Larry Cotton, pastor at The Austin Stone Community Church, announced his resignation last Thursday from the position of director of Internship and Residency Program with the church’s Austin Stone Institute.
In January, Jules Woodson accused Savage of sexually assaulting her in 1998 when he was a youth pastor and she was 17. Savage admitted that her story was correct.
At the time, Woodson had told Cotton about what had happened between her and Savage, but he did not report the incident to authorities.
In his resignation letter, Cotton explained that he opted to step down from his positon at Austin Stone due to “the weight of my mistakes.”
“I now understand that I did not do…
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