For six months, almost no one took notice of the brief filed quietly by Southern Baptists in a case winding its way to the Kentucky Supreme Court.
The woman later sued several parties, including the Louisville Police Department, saying they knew about the abuse and had a duty to report it.
None of it appeared to have anything to do with the Southern Baptist Convention, the nation’s largest Protestant denomination.
The brief, reported by The Louisville Courier-Journal in October, landed like a bombshell in Southern Baptist circles.
The brief, abuse survivors and those critical of the church say, offers the first clear look at the church’s true position on whether its leaders can be held accountable for abuse.
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