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Conviction Christian institutions & contexts Evangelical, Pentecostal, and independent Gilmer, Texas, USA · 2008

United States: Baptist youth minister given life after faking his own death to flee

Record class

Core record

Evidence status

Convicted

Authority role

youth minister at a Southern Baptist church

Organization

Glenwood First Baptist Church, Gilmer, Southern Baptist Convention

Spiritual nexus

The victim was a congregant minor under the youth minister's church authority.

  • Pastoral or clerical authority

Evidence structure

Proceedings

  1. 2008-01-01 · guilty plea and life sentence after flight and capture

    Texas state court, USA. Kevin Othell Laferney, youth minister at Glenwood First Baptist Church in Gilmer, pleaded guilty to aggravated sexual assault of a child. He had fled and faked his own death before being captured in Montana, and was sentenced to life. He appears in the Houston Chronicle's 'Abuse of Faith' documentation of convicted Southern Baptist church staff.

Documented coercion mechanisms

  • youth-ministry authority over a congregant minor

Primary record

Sources

national broadcaster court reporting conviction report CBS19, 'Houston Chronicle identifies Southern Baptist church staff convicted of sex crimes' (Abuse of Faith coverage).

Mainstream coverage of the conviction within the Chronicle's documented set.

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