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Five
Named in $10 Million Suit
08/23/1992
TULSA
WORLD (FINAL HOME EDITION Edition), Page B2 of
RELIGION
CHATTANOOGA,
Tenn. (AP) - A Southern Baptist minister's
conviction for
child molestation has led to five lawsuits
seeking a total
of $10 million in damages against the minister,
the
Southern Baptist Convention and three other Baptist groups.
Each is named in a $2 million suit. They are Donald
McCary,
minister of music and youth at Chattanooga's
Central Baptist
Church of Hixon for 17 years until his
arrest; the church
itself; the Tennessee Baptist
Convention; the Hamilton County
Baptist Association; and
the denomination.
McCary was convicted last April of 13
counts involving aggravated
sexual battery, assault,
sexual battery, rape and statutory
rape of four boys, then
aged 12 to 15. He was sentenced
to a maximum 72 years in
prison.
Attorneys for the denomination and congregation
voiced certainty
they would be dismissed from the suit.
The suits allege
that Central's pastor, Ron Phillips,
failed to investigate
McCary's activities after complaints
about him in 1989.
Phillips also is also chairman of
directors of one of the
denomination's major agencies, the
Home Mission Board.
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