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Conviction Christian institutions & contexts Evangelical, Pentecostal, and independent Waynesville, North Carolina, USA · 2014

United States: former Cove Creek Baptist Church youth pastor convicted of a lewd act against a girl from his congregation

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Record class

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Evidence status

Convicted

Authority role

youth pastor at Cove Creek Baptist Church, Waynesville, North Carolina

Organization

Cove Creek Baptist Church, Waynesville, North Carolina

Archive classification

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A youth pastor's access to a girl in his own congregation's youth ministry.

  • Pastoral or clerical authority

Evidence structure

Proceedings

  1. Date in cited record · conviction and sentence

    Haywood County, North Carolina — superior court. Dallas Sherman Surrett, former youth pastor at Cove Creek Baptist Church (Southern Baptist), was convicted of sexual offenses relating to a lewd and lascivious act against a young girl that occurred in 2005, and was sentenced to seven years in prison.

Documented coercion mechanisms

  • a youth pastor's standing and access within his own congregation, exploited against a young girl in his youth ministry

Cited record

Sources

press press report WCNC, on the SBC abuser list.

Conviction, sentence, church affiliation.

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