One of the largest churches in Canada has released a statement revealing that they have substantiated several abuse allegations against their former head pastor Bruxy Cavey, and that one involves a minor.
For brief background, Bruxy Cavey is one of the country’s most recognizable religious leaders. Far from being orthodox, he is also a false teacher, who denies penal substitutionary atonement, biblical inerrancy, the eternality of hell, has an unbiblical view of the sin of homosexuality, and displays an affinity for open-theism. For more information on Cavey’s many false beliefs, click here.
Cavey was released from his position at The Meeting House, a 5000-member multi-campus megachurch in Oakville, ON, that serves as one of Canada’s largest, after being arrested and charged with sexual assault. Further investigations would reveal that the church has an endemic problem, with a third-party investigation revealing that there have been nearly 40 different reports of sexual abuse against multiple pastors within the church.
In a statement by the church, they reveal that they have some more “hard news to share:”
We have now received the results of the second and third investigations into allegations of sexual abuse and sexual misconduct brought against former Senior Pastors Bruxy Cavey and Tim Day, respectively.
These investigations were conducted by Natasha Persaud, an independent, third-party investigator to ensure that there was protection for the confidentiality of complainants and that the entire process was approached in an objective, trauma-informed, and timely manner.
Here are the results for the second investigation into Bruxy Cavey:
In this second investigation, two sets of claims of sexual abuse by a church leader (as defined above) have been substantiated. In the third, his actions have been found to be substantiated as sexual misconduct. In one case, the victim was underaged when the abuse took place.
The investigation into Tim Day (Their other former senior pastor) was conducted separately. He chose not to participate in the investigation, and was provided with multiple opportunities to do so. The victim’s allegations against Tim Day were substantiated as sexual abuse by a church leader.
Previously the church revealed some of the allegations and results of abuse suffered by the hands of their pastors.
To date, our victim advocate Melodie has received 38 inquiries. She’s documenting each story and is committed to advocating on their behalf. The inquiries are not all unique or separate, but they do represent allegations, disclosures and concerns relating primarily to clergy sexual misconduct, harassment and abuse by Kieran Naidoo (youth pastor charged with possessing child pornography in 2012, and later charged with sexual exploitation in 2021 as a result of an incident from 2002-2004) Dave Churchill ( a youth pastor church charged with sexual assault and sexual exploitation in 2014) Bruxy Cavey (multiple allegations of sexual abuse and relationships, some which he has admitted) and Tim Day (served as senior pastor of the Meeting House for 14 years, unspecified allegations of sexual misconduct and abuse)
