Southern Baptist Pastor John Finley has resigned after 31 years at the helm of Bartlett Hills Baptist Church in Bartlett, Tennessee, following accusations that he sexually molested two teenage girls over 30 years ago while serving at a church in Texas.
The 62-year-old Finley resigned in April after church staff and leaders confronted him about detailed allegations they received from women who said they were repeatedly sexually abused by Finley when he was their youth group leader at Travis Avenue Baptist Church in Fort Worth in the 1980s.
“I made some poor choices and was involved with two females in inappropriate behavior,” Finley said in his resignation speech before the congregation on April 8, The Star-Telegram reported this week. “There was no sex. Both ladies were over 18. In the best interest of our church, I choose to resign immediately.”
His accusers, whose names have not been made public, claim that what Finley told his congregation in his resignation speech was a lie. They told the Texas newspaper that they were between the ages of 15 and 17 when they were abused by…
… Read More
—-
Click Read More to read the rest of the story from our content source/partners – The Christian Post.