Ohio: accredited minister and pastoral trainer convicted of abusing a Bible Baptist Church congregant's daughter
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Ohio Third Appellate District affirmed the judgment on December 29, 2025.
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Convicted
Authority role
accredited minister and men's pastoral trainer, Bible Baptist Church of Marysville
Organization
Bible Baptist Church of Marysville
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Burkard was accredited clergy at Bible Baptist Church whose role was training men to become pastors and full-time ministers; the church's own senior pastor testified Burkard held a position of authority in the church. The victim was the daughter of a congregant family, and the abuse occurred on church grounds during and immediately after church-sponsored Vacation Bible School.
- Pastoral or clerical authority
- Institutional obedience or isolation
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Proceedings
Date in cited record · jury verdict and sentence
Court of Common Pleas, Union County, Ohio. A jury found Burkard guilty on charges arising from abuse of O.H., the teenage daughter of a family that regularly attended Bible Baptist Church, where Burkard was accredited clergy training men to become pastors and ministers.
2025-12-29 · direct appeal, Case No. 14-24-36
Court of Appeals of Ohio, Third Appellate District. Judgment affirmed. The court found Burkard, though not formally ordained, was an accredited minister and pastoral trainer holding a recognized position of authority in the church, confirmed by testimony from the church's senior pastor.
Documented coercion mechanisms
- abuse committed in a church-owned vehicle during and after Vacation Bible School
- instructed the victim not to tell his wife
- access via a Vacation Bible School volunteer role
Cited record
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- official court judgment appellate judgment State v. Burkard, Ohio Third Appellate District, Case No. 14-24-36 (Dec. 29, 2025).
Appellate opinion affirming the conviction, detailing Burkard's accredited-minister and pastoral-trainer role at Bible Baptist Church of Marysville and the abuse of a congregant's daughter in a church vehicle.
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