PJ Smyth is a victim of trauma. He deserves our support, not our condemnation
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Andrew Graystone2021-12-16T11:17:00
PJ Smyth has been forced to step down as the leader of a US church movement affiliated to Newfrontiers, after a report concluded he did not disclose important information about his father’s abuses. But Andrew Graystone, who wrote a book on the John Smyth case, says PJ was his father’s first and most damaged victim.
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