They contend that the institutions misappropriated their funds by using them to fund a sham investigation in the 2010s but did not describe how money paid in the 1970s could plausibly have been used to fund a phony investigation decades later. Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window), Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window), Click to share on LinkedIn (Opens in new window), Legal Options for Survivors of Sexual Assault, Forester Haynie Adds Criminal Defense Litigation, A recent investigation by the Fort Worth Star-Telegram. I think that one Joy will win. By filing this case as a class action, Nanette and her attorneys hope to give survivors of sexual abuse a voice and legal mechanism to hold leaders at First Baptist and other Independent Fundamental Baptist churches accountable for perpetrating and covering up horrific acts of child sex abuse for decades. GROSS. No matter that the the will of the voters makes the result cleanly clear, the true believers cannot admit that the criminal they worship is finished. I never lost my faith in God, Ryder said. Former members of First Baptist Church of Hammond argue in a federal lawsuit that the church is responsible for an investment fraud run by a deacon hired by the church to provide financial advice. The church should acknowledge its culpability and sin. Yep, before a police investigation. A former Hammond First Baptist Church pastor convicted in 2013 of a sex crime has again asked for early release due to his parents failing health, court filings show. I suppose he has plenty of first-hand information on that issue, from his own experiences and hijinks. Great! I think Ill have a T-shirt printed with this image of Hyles and the just the caption, Jesus saves. I just love the denial quotient active among bonehead men who take off their shirts and proudly display their aging bodies to young women! Its important to recognize that, simultaneously to manipulating this young woman, he was financing himself off of the backs of churches. Jack Schaap, Indiana Pastor, Claimed Jesus Wanted Him To Have Sex With Why he lies about that I will never know. Both are immoral miscreants. Add to cart. Now 62, Schaap is incarcerated at the federal prison in Ashland, Kentucky. These are sins against God, againsts others, and crimes. David Hyles, the son of the late Jack Hyles, pastor of First Baptist Church in Hammond, Indiana, finds himself yet again embroiled in a sex scandal. First Baptist Church sued in investment scheme - The Times of Northwest