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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

Record class

Core record

Evidence status

Convicted

Authority role

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

Organization

Cove Creek Baptist Church, Waynesville, North Carolina

Spiritual nexus

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

Primary record

Sources

press press report WCNC, on the SBC abuser list.

Conviction, sentence, church affiliation.

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