In charging documents accusing a former seminary official of obstructing a federal investigation, the U.S. Department of Justice signaled that it has been engaged since around 2022 in a broader inquiry into alleged sexual abuse cover-ups in the Southern Baptist Convention.
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The Department of Justice has charged former Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary evangelism professor Matthew Queen with falsifying records connected to its investigation of the Southern Baptist Convention.
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This is the first indictment of a Southern Baptist Convention official amid several years of reckoning over sexual abuse claims and the mishandling of those claims.