Eyewitnesses Accuse J.D. Greear & Summit of “Sham” Investigation

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Are J.D. Greear and The Summit Church protecting someone who participated in a cover-up of sex crimes? And is their investigation of Bryan Loritts legitimate? Or, is it a sham investigation intended to obscure the facts?

In this episode of The Roys Report, Julie continues her interview with two eyewitnesses who say they observed Bryan Loritts cover up the sex crimes of his brother-in-law, Rick Trotter. These same eyewitnesses say they tried to tell Greear and The Summit Church about what Loritts had done, but the church would not listen to them. They add that even after their conversation with Summit leaders, the church continued to communicate to others that everyone at Loritts' former church absolved him of responsibility for the church's mishandling of the case. 

We pick up our interview where Trotter is fired from Loritts' former church, Fellowship Memphis, but then is passed on to another church where he preys on more women, and potentially children. 

"There's a dark evil presence to be able to blind you to that, " Greg Selby, one of the eyewitnesses says. "If it was just Bryan and he said, 'Well it's my family,' and he never passed (Trotter) on, I would get it. But that you had an entire group of people, and now, the Southern Baptist Convention covering up this stuff, when they know they've got a guy who . . . covered up his brother-in-law, passed him on to another church, has clearly lied about it . . . I couldn't hire that guy to work in a secular business, much less would I put him on the pulpit."

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Note: This transcript has been edited slightly for continuity.

JULIE ROYS:  Are J.D. Greear and The Summit church protecting someone who participated in a massive cover up of sex crimes? And is their investigation of Bryan Loritts legitimate? Or is it a sham investigation intended to obscure the facts? Welcome to The Roys Report, a podcast dedicated to reporting the truth and restoring the church. I’m Julie Roys. And today’s podcast is a follow up to a podcast I released last Thursday. That podcast featured two eyewitnesses who had a front row seat to an alleged cover up of sex crimes involving Bryan Loritts. Loritts is an author and speaker and a new executive pastor at J.D. Greear’s Summit church. And according to my guests, Loritts in 2010 covered up sex crimes by his brother in law, Rick Trotter. Those crimes involve secretly recording multiple women and likely children in a bathroom at Fellowship Memphis. Fellowship Memphis is the church where Loritts was lead pastor and Trotter was the worship pastor. My guests today say Loritts helped to destroy evidence, silence victims and whistleblowers, and even tried to secretly funnel money to Trotter and his wife, Heather Loritts. If you missed that first podcast, I urge you to go back and listen to it. You can find it at JulieRoys.com It is truly stunning what happened at Bryan Loritts’ former church, and it is stunning that despite having Trotter’s camera, with numerous secretly recorded videos on it, Trotter’s crimes were never reported by anyone at Fellowship Memphis in 2010. And today, we’ll pick up the story there. And you’ll hear how Loritts and Fellowship Memphis allowed Trotter, an admitted sexual predator, to get hired by another church in Memphis. In fact, Loritts himself hired Trotter to lead worship at a conference Loritts organized in 2015. It’s absolutely mind-numbing. But perhaps the most surprising thing is that despite everything Loritts has done Summit Church, the church pastored by J.D. Greear, the president of the Southern Baptist Convention, the largest Protestant denomination in the U.S., has just hired Bryan Loritts as an executive pastor. And according to my guest today, they met with leaders at Greear’s church on a conference call about two weeks ago. They tried to warn them about what Loritts had done, but Summit rep