There's a heightened awareness of child abuse online. A lot of people are posting under the hashtag #SavetheChildren, but is posting articles really saving children from abuse? In this episode, we talk about some of the ways that children can be spared from abuse.

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In this episode, Christa Brown discusses the importance of a database to identify abusive leaders in the church. She kept her own database for 6 years and knows how vital it is to receive and share information about predator pastors. The Southern Baptist Church still refuses to create a database, and they STILL hide abusers in the pulpit. Christa shares a lot of wisdom about how databases work, and how many potentially abusive pastors are still undetected.

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Christa Brown contacted 18 Baptist leaders to seek help after she revealed that she had been repeatedly sexually abused as a kid by a Southern Baptist pastor. Christa naively thought that these leaders would care. They did not. Not only was she ignored, but they sent their high power attorneys after her. Her music minister told her to keep quiet about the abuse. These responses sparked a fire inside of Christa and she's been working to hold Baptist leaders accountable ever since.

Her book, This Little Light: Beyond a Baptist Preacher Predator and His Gang, is phenomenal. In this episode, Christa talks about the database that she created to identify predator preachers in the Southern Baptist church. We ask Christa if she believes the SBC has learned anything over the years.

To order her book, check it out here:
https://www.amazon.com/This-Little-Light-Preacher-Predator/dp/098184183X/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=this+little+light+christa+brown&qid=1599045033&sr=8-1

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In this part 2 of our interview with Judge Aquilina, she discusses the letter Larry Nassar wrote to her, which she read at his sentencing. Nassar's line, "Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned," had the entire courtroom gasp as Judge Aquilina read those words. The letter showed Nassar's cold heart and disdain toward children and women.

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Guest Judge Aquilina talks about the Larry Nassar sentencing and how we can help educate ourselves as parents and caretakers of children to prevent abuse. This is part 1 of a 2 part interview.

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What is going on with states releasing inmates like wild fire? On July 29th Ibrahim Bouaichi murdered the woman who alleged that he raped her. He was released from a Virginia jail because his lawyers claimed that the coronavirus put him and other inmates at risk. He was released on $24,000 bond under the condition he stay at home. He didn't.

This is not uncommon. Several other violent inmates were released because of COVID only to also murder other victims. California has already released over 17,000 inmates, many of them violent offenders, in the past few months. In this episode we talk about the uphill battle advocates face and how these secret releases of inmates is devastating to victims of these inmates.

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There is a vast shortage of people going into preaching ministry. Many are calling the shortage a crisis, and all agree that it will only get worse. In their desperation to find people to fill the pulpit, churches are putting even less emphasis on vetting people. In this episode, we talk about reasons this will exasperate the problem of abuse, and what churches can do about it.

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When allegations of abuse come to light, churches and other organizations almost immediately go into damage control. The response is predictable as the day is long, and it never sits well with church members or the victims who were hurt. In this episode, we talk about what steps Jimmy took to keep his congregation informed, and how these five steps should be the first thing leaders do when allegations arise.

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Schools have been closed for months. Many churches and day cares are closed. Many sporting events have been cancelled. These are all hot spots for pedophiles. So, with all of these places closed or running with very few people, where are the pedophiles, and what are they up to? The statistics over the past few months are showing very troubling trends, especially for online exploitation and trafficking of children. We break it down in this episode.

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In this part 2, special guest Sandy Phillips Kirkham tells her story of abuse by her youth minister in the 1970s. She was just 16 years old when he first kissed her then progressed to sex when she was 17. The abuse lasted for five years, and included physical violence and psychological abuse. Sandy explains how the beloved pastor was able to abuse her and several other victims while keeping the church under his control.

Sandy's book, Let Me Prey Upon You, can be ordered here:
https://www.amazon.com/Let-Prey-Upon-You-Ministers/dp/1734195207/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=let+me+prey+upon+you&qid=1594215829&sr=8-1

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