The church is supposed to be a haven for the weak and the vulnerable, but what happens when it's not, and the powerful prey on the week?

Welcome to the Roy's Report, a podcast dedicated to reporting the truth and restoring the church.

I'm Julie Roy's. And today I'm going to be speaking about the sex abuse crisis in the church,

and joining me as author, speaker, and abuse advocate, Mary Demuth. As you probably know,

sex abuse is not just a Catholic problem. The Southern Baptist Convention, the largest

Protestant church in the country, is reeling from a massive sex abuse scandal. An investigation

by the Houston Chronicle found that in the

past 20 years, dozens of pastors and deacons have sexually abused people in their care, and

shockingly, the victim's number more than 700. What's especially awful about these stories isn't just

the pastors and the church leaders who abuse. That's bad enough.

It's the pastors and the denominational leaders who protect them as well. Just recently, I reported

that Brian Luritz, someone who's been accused by several eyewitnesses of covering up sex crimes,

just got hired by some at church. That's the church where J.D. Greer pastors. J.D. Greer is the president of the

Southern Baptist Convention who pledged to end the pattern of sexual abuse and cover-up in the church.

And then there's another story I recently reported concerning Dr. Anthony Moore.

Dr. Moore got fired from the village church in Fort Worth, Texas for secretly videotaping and male youth pastor in a shower.

But Dr. Moore said he's sorry, cried some tears, and then his good friend, Dr. Thomas White,

president of Cedarville University, hired Moore. And if some bloggers and I hadn't reported the

story, Dr. Moore would probably still be teaching at Cedarville. He'd even be coaching the basketball team.

And it makes you wonder, how many other leaders are in churches praying on the vulnerable?

How many others know about the predators and do nothing? And how many sex abuse victims are there

who are wounded and alienated from the church because of these wolves in shepherd's clothing. Well, I'm very much

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