NPR: Southern Baptist Leaders Release a Previously Secret List of Accused Sexual Abusers

NPR's report, published 27 May 2022, on the Southern Baptist Convention's own release, two days after the Guidepost Solutions investigation's own findings were published, of a 205 page database naming more than 700 pastors, deacons, ministers, youth pastors and volunteers accused of sexual abuse, largely in cases spanning 2000 to 2019. The article states each entry references at least one of: an admission, a confession, a guilty plea, a conviction, a civil judgment, a formal sentencing, or inclusion on a sex offender registry, so the list mixes adjudicated and otherwise substantiated cases rather than raw, unexamined allegations. The SBC's own Executive Committee had compiled and secretly maintained the list for years before its release, per the Guidepost investigation's own finding.