Prominent alleged sexual abuse survivor Hannah-Kate Osborne (Williams), who is currently embroiled in a series of lawsuits against the Southern Baptist Convention over claims they ignored her alleged abuse, is now claiming that SBC president Bart Barber and the SBC Executive Committee are seeking to have her strip- searched and involuntarily committed to a psych ward for six months.
Osborne, who we last wrote about after claiming she played a key role in the SBC’s upcoming declaration of bankruptcy- which has not materialized yet- and then claimed she received a “$3000 bill for crisis intervention from the SBC petitioning to have me committed so that I couldn’t testify in a case against them” – which she has shown no proof occurred- says that she was instructed she must give her mental health records (which may or may not contain a history of alleged suicide attempts) to the SBC’s lawyers or face involuntary confinement for half a year.
An ally of Osborne’s likewise chimed in and shared this:
Lawyers representing the Southern Baptist Convention have filed an amicus brief encouraging the Supreme Court of Kentucky to rule AGAINST a verified sex abuse victim, understanding that a ruling in her favor would negatively impact them.
Several years ago, Samantha Killary claimed that her father, a police officer who adopted her when she was two, sexually abused her throughout her childhood until she turned 18 in 2009. She recorded him admitting it and turned in the tapes, resulting in a guilty plea and 15 years in prison.
She later sued her father’s girlfriend, whom he dated from 2001-2003, and her grandfather. Like her father, they were also police officers, and she alleges they both knew of the abuse but failed to report it. She sued the police station as well for employing all three.
A judge initially dismissed the case against her, saying that the statute of limitations of five years had passed. But then the state legislature doubled the statute to 10 years in 2017, and then four years later made it so that claims against “non-perpetrators” could be brought forward against law enforcement and religious organizations if they knew about the abuse but failed to lawfully report it.
As a result, the Court of Appeals reopened Killary’s case. The state Supreme Court is weighing whether or not the legislature’s expansion of the statute of limitations can be applied retroactively, enabling her to bring another suit against her father’s girlfriend from 20 years ago, her grandfather, and the police station responsible for employing them all.
Enter the SBC. Lawyers for the Southern Baptist Convention, Lifeway, the Executive Committee, and SBTS filed an amicus brief encouraging the Supreme Court to throw out Killary’s lawsuit and not to revive tort claims against “non-perpetrator parties.”
This is because they are one of those “non-perpetrator parties” currently involved in a similar lawsuit. Hannah-Kate Williams, a young woman with a troubled history, contends that her father sexually, physically, and psychologically abused her from her teens to childhood. She claims she reported the abuse at the age of 8 to SBC church staff and later on others, but they did nothing other than tell her, “I’m praying for you.”
Unlike Killary, these allegations from Williams have not been proven or substantiated.
The SBC says that victims of child abuse should certainly get justice, but insists that retroactively applying expired timelines against those who had no part in the abuse is not the way to do it, notwithstanding the fact that it violates due process claims.
Here, their motivations are clear. They don’t believe that the new 2021 laws against “non-perpetrator parties” should be allowed to proceed. If the Supreme Court agrees, Williams’ lawsuit against them would be dead in the water and dismissed.
But if the court agrees that these parties can be charged, it would open them up to far greater liability and directly impact other case they’re involved in.
Last year, Hannah-Kate Williams filed suit against several SBC entities and personalities, including Lifeway, the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, Mike Stone, Rod Martin, the SBC Executive Committee, and others, alleging that they “conspired to protect the Baptist denomination from a problem of sexual abuse of minors or other vulnerable populations” by not investigating her reports, along with painting her as a liar who has no credibility.
Williams, a troubled soul with a long history of erratic behavior, contends that her father sexually, physically, and psychologically abused her from the ages of 5-16. She says she reported that abuse at the age of 8 to SBC church staff, but they did nothing other than tell her, “I’m praying for you.”
When a recent Kentucky law extending the statute of limitations for child abuse survivors to sue their abusers, Williams took advantage by suing the SBC itself, along with a few familiar faces, including her father, Lifeway (his former employer), the SBC Executive Committee, and SEBTS.
The Southern Baptist Convention, faced with mounting pressure to address accusations that the denomination was covering up rampant sexual abuse, was guided by members of the SBC’s Executive Committee to waive attorney-client privilege. Williams played a role in this by actively encouraging the effort, championing its importance. In the process, she glommed on to several high-profile leaders and partnered with them to accomplish this, including Grant Gaines, Dean Inserra and Todd Benkert, tearfully appearing at the SBC annual conference to plead her case.
Her goal realized, she has taken to social media to crow in mockery. She now says it was stupid on their part to waive it, it was brilliant on her part to convince them to waive it, and it’s what they deserve.
Williams has spent the last few days on social media screenshotting responses to her which she plans to use to file even more lawsuits, and claims she has something big up her sleeve.
Just days after the story broke that Hannah-Kate Williams ( the woman at the center of the Mike Stone SBC 2021 Convention controversy) filed a lawsuit against a plethora of entities and personalities, including LifeWay, the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, Mike Stone, Rod Martin, the SBC Executive Committee, and others, she tried to kill herself again.
The attempt to take her own life came after she publicly accused the pastors who stood by her at SBC 2021 of using her, a claim she took back a few days later, writing that Grant Gaines and Ronnie Parrot did not use her after all. Rather, because she is emotionally damaged from her abuse and not fully healed yet, she was not able to fully discern both their and her actions and motivations about the situation, resulting in her saying what she did.
Sadly, this is not her first attempt, but she also tried a few years ago too, and we are immensely grateful that she did not complete it and that she is still with us here today.
She shared on social media that given the way her plans are going, and the continued roadblocks the SBC is throwing up in order to not properly address and deal with the sexual abuse happening within the denomination, she is going back to her original plan, as stated below.
Though we are frequently at odds with Hannah-Kate and have reported on some of the things she has done and said that have not always been complimentary, we want her to be justified, sanctified, and one day glorified, and we thank God she is still with us. Please pray for her.
A personal plea to Hannah Kate
H, we know you read this, and you’ve been chatting with S for a few months now. His line is always open. Furthermore, if you send me a DM, I’m always open to chat and will gladly give you my number. -D.
An alleged sex abuse victim has launched a lawsuit against several well-known SBC leaders and entities, claiming that they either helped cover up her abuse at the hands of her father, or failed to do their due diligence as it pertained to their reporting.
Hannah-Kate Williams was the woman at the center of the Mike Stone SBC 2021 Convention controversy. She famously confronted the presidential nominee on the convention floor where they had a brief discussion that ended with Williams in tears, citing him as saying she was bad for the convention. This quickly made the rounds, Stone issued a statement of denial, but it’s a reasonable bet that this had a very adverse effect on Stones’ numbers and, causing him to lose against serial plagiarizer and sermon stealer Ed Litton.
Now, as reported by Religion News Service, she has filed suit against a plethora of entities and personalities, including Lifeway, the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, Mike Stone, Rod Martin, the SBC Executive Committee, and others, alleging that they “conspired to protect the Baptist denomination from a problem of sexual abuse of minors or other vulnerable populations” by not investigating her reports, along with painting her as a liar who has no credibility.
Hannah contends that her father sexually, physically, and psychologically abused her from the ages of 5-16. She says she reported that abuse at the age of 8 to SBC church staff, but they did nothing other than tell her “I’m praying for you.”
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According to Religion News Service:
Williams, the oldest of six siblings, said she first contacted SBC local pastors and national leaders after she realized her father was also assaulting three of her younger siblings. Her mother severely beat her and her siblings and also sexually abused her two younger brothers, according to public statements by the four oldest siblings (the two youngest siblings are still in her parents’ custody).
The elder four siblings have filed police reports against their parents in several jurisdictions, alleging sexual and physical abuse. But in December, a detective in Jeffersontown, Kentucky, declined to send the case to a prosecutor, citing “factual issues and inconsistencies” among the siblings’ stories, according to the report.
Reports in more than 10 other jurisdictions in Kentucky, Indiana and Tennessee remain under investigation.
One person has already publicly responded to previous claims and called her a liar who is making things up.
During the convention, she wrote on Twitter that the man who helped cover up her abortion was outside the convention protesting abotion, and yet refused to tell anyone who he was or reveal his identity.
We are aware that the man’s name is James Farrar. He is a pastor at Alethia Church and released a video at the time explaining that he has been falsely accused and that she is a liar, painting a picture that is diametrically opposite hers.
Prior to the convention, Williams announced that she was abandoning Christianity and the church, explaining that she needed to leave these things behind so that she could “heal,” be “free,” and “live in that freedom.” In the months since then, however, she has “recommitted” her life to the Lord and has made public declarations of belief. including being re-baptized.
As far as what she wants out of all this lawsuit: she says “I’m hoping all abusers will be exposed and brought to justice so they can find redemption, that survivors can receive restitution, and the vulnerable can be protected.”
