Scott B. Sechrist, 61, a former pastor of the First Baptist Church of Morrisville in Pennsylvania, who killed himself Monday a week before he was to stand trial for molesting an underage girl more than 20 years ago, reportedly abandoned his old church and wife for a relationship with a member of his congregation.
Marty Salzmann, a current member and secretary of the First Baptist congregation where Sechrist was senior pastor for about three years and where she has served for more than 30 years, says that's what she was told by insiders of the 100-member congregation.
While she was unable to say exactly when he stopped pastoring the church, she recalls Sechrist disappearing some time in the late-1980s to early 1990s. She was told he informed the church that he had left by telephone.
"Well he left the church because he ran off with one of the ladies. He was still married to his wife and he had an affair with one of the ladies at the church. Eventually they decided they were gonna go together and stay together and he left the church," said Salzmann in an interview with The Christian Post Wednesday. "Of course we couldn't have a pastor that was behaving like that."
The only thing she recalled of the woman he ran off with was that "she used to play the piano."
Ex-Pastor Who Killed Himself Ahead of Sex Assault Trial Reportedly Abandoned Flock, Wife for Church Pianist
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