A former Southern Baptist pastor who once backed strict anti-abortion
legislation in Texas has been charged with repeatedly molesting a
teenage relative over the course of two years, sometimes several times a
day, court records show.
Stephen Bratton, who stepped down last month from Grace Family
Baptist Church in Houston, was arrested Friday after a juvenile relative
said they had sex “multiple times a day or several times a week”
between 2013 and 2015, Harris County Sheriff’s Office Senior Deputy
Thomas Gilliland told the Houston Chronicle.
Bratton confessed to his wife about the alleged abuse last month,
prompting her to contact his co-pastors at 4 a.m. to organize an
emergency meeting. Bratton waited until later that day to admit that he
had “sinned in grievous ways,” the newspaper reports.
Ex-pastor charged with molesting teen relative in Texas
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