Parents in North Texas want to know why a pastor with
pending charges of child rape and sodomy in Alabama has been hired by the First
Baptist Church of Bedford.
According to Alabama court documents, Kyle Adcock faces
charges for 29 counts of sexually abusing a 14-year-old girl while he was
working at Woodward Avenue Baptist Church between 2010 and 2012. Julie Brooks
and Jennifer Fawks told KDFW that they were concerned after learning that
Adcock had been hired as a music minister because their children take classes
at First Baptist Church during the week.
“Kids trust ministers,” Brooks explained. “And so if they
are approached by someone that works in the church, you would trust them. You
would have no reason not to.”
First Baptist Church Pastor Steve Knott insisted to KDFW
that the church usually performed background checks on employees, but said that
Adcock was only working as a temporary employee in the music ministry. Knott
also argued that Adcock had not yet been convicted of a crime.
A Google search for Kyle Adcock immediately returns dozens
of photos and resulting from his arrest last year. Adcock’s mother had
testified at the time that there was a job waiting for her son in Texas if the
court agreed to release him on bail.
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