01/02/2026
This man's horrific story of s*xual abuse in the Seventh-day Adventist church is the tip of the iceberg. It's time we wrestle with the reality that abuse occurs as often within church, as without; we can and indeed we must, for the children. And we must disrupt systems which protect perpetrators and disbelieve survivors--which, in turn, draw more perpetrators.
Having grown-up in a 5th generation Seventh-Day Adventist home, as a child I personally witnessed perpetrators being moved from church to church, school to school, and up into administration rather than the church taking the action that was necessary to protect children and for the sake of justice. Heartbreakingly, the church of my childhood must face this head on with great integrity or, at some point, they will face a scandal like the Catholic Church. That they had not, is an enormous part of why I left several years ago. When I did so, I sent a letter of why to the church I attended, the local conference, the North American Division, and to the world headquarters. Only my local church responded, an email of CYA. The lack of response confirmed what I had known and why I left.
14.4K likes, 613 comments. “The Seventh-day Adventist Church failed to act on information that a prominent member of the church was a pa******le and s*xually abusing young boys for decades, evidence seen by Channel 4 News suggests.”
