‘We tried to tell you for years and years’: How the Southern Baptist Church woefully failed abuse survivors

For decades, complaints of sexual abuse by pastors and staff in the largest US Protestant denomination, the Southern Baptist Convention, were either ignored or covered up by top clergy an independent investigation has found. Abuse survivors, many of whom were assaulted as children, and those calling for justice, were treated appallingly by the Church. The lawyer and abuse advocate, Rachael Denhollander, who worked with survivors to hold SBC to account, describes the toxic and dysfunctional culture that led to systemic inaction