NBC News Details Multiple Child Sex Abuse Allegations Against Pastor at Jim Bakker’s Church
NBC News just launched an hour-long broadside against Pastor Joe Campbell of Morningside Church, detailing multiple allegations from multiple women who say Campbell sexually abused them in their teens. The edition also outlines the institutional failures of the Assemblies of God and associated churches to take the matters seriously.
The video, ‘The Children’s Pastor: The 40-year Mission to Stop a preacher accused of raping children,’ recounts information we had previously covered here where five women, Kim Williams, Cheryl Almond, Phaedra Creed, Kerri Jackson, and Lisa Ball, accused Campbell of sexually abusing them when they were in their teens.
An accompanying, in-depth, must-read article explains:
In telling their stories over and over, the women created a written record dating back to the 1980s. NBC News reviewed hundreds of pages of letters and emails, police and court files, and harrowing diary entries that Jackson wrote in looping cursive as a teenager. Their accounts are also supported by interviews with more than two dozen people — friends and family, former church members, retired law enforcement officials — who say they learned of the women’s allegations years ago. Nine of them, including four men, described their own run-ins with Campbell as children. They said the pastor showed them pornography during sleepovers, handed them sex toys in his bedroom, made lewd comments or touched them in ways that made them uneasy.
Despite having a long history of sexual abuse allegations, including even ultimately being found guilty of raping a teen by an ecclesiastical court and getting kicked out of the Assemblies of God, Campbell still had a bright future ahead.
After his boot from the AOG, he founded Lakeside Family Worship church, which grew to hundreds of people, and he started a church camp for children.
NBC News review of court records and social media posts found that, from 2008 to 2014, Campbell welcomed at least four people accused or convicted of sexual abuse into his congregation, allowing them to work with children.
In 2016 Campbell took a job at PTL Television Network, where he was the pastor and apostle of Jim Bakker’s church. For years, he would have his sermons broadcasted and appear as a guest on the show.
Late last year, however, the women banded together and filed police reports against Campbell. Around this time PTL removed Campbell’s bio from their website and also removed some of his appearances on the show, though there is no word to what degree he still works for them.
While these police filings ultimately went nowhere- the statute of limitations had long since passed- the women are hoping that current or recent victims of Campbell’, whose statute of limitations for crimes against them is not up, would see their story and speak up, putting a dangerous predator behind bars where he belongs.
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