The senior pastor of a North County St. Louis megachurch has dropped his
lawsuit against the four former congregants who publicly criticized him
in the aftermath of serial child molester Brandon Milburn's 2014
arrest.
As described in a Riverfront Times investigation published last week,
Milburn worked at First Christian Church of Florissant, or FCCF, as a
paid intern and volunteer youth minister at various times from 2005 to
2012. County prosecutors charged Milburn last year with seven counts of
statutory sodomy.
The charges came after two men accused Milburn of abusing them
numerous times between 2007 and 2009. Both victims met Milburn through
their family's ties to the church. Both were eleven years old when
Milburn began molesting them.
However, questions arose about what FCCF senior pastor Steve
Wingfield knew about Milburn back in 2012. A publicly disseminated "case
study" written by an FCCF Sunday School teacher accused Wingfield of
ignoring multiple warnings about Milburn's behavior around young boys
and teens; in response, Wingfield sued the case study's author, as well
as three other former FCCF members, for defamation.
Pastor Drops Lawsuit Against First Christian Church of Florissant Whistleblowers | Riverfront Times
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