Former Southern Baptist Leader Charged With Sexual Assault
Source: Huffington Post
07/13/2018 03:13 pm ET
The alleged assault by Mark Aderholt reportedly occurred over 20 years ago.
By Carol Kuruvilla
ALVIN S GLENN DETENTION CENTER
Mark Aderholt is the former associate executive director and chief strategist of the South Carolina Baptist Convention.
A former Southern Baptist leader has been charged with sexually assaulting a teenager 21 years ago in Texas.
Mark Aderholt, a prominent figure within the South Carolina Baptist Convention (SCBS), was arrested on July 3 in South Carolina on a warrant issued in Tarrant County, Texas, the Star-Telegram reports. The 46-year-old was booked into the Tarrant County Jail on Monday and released the next day on a bond.
Jail records show that Aderholt was charged with the sexual assault of a child under the age of 17. The second-degree felony could carry a prison sentence of up to 20 years.
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The alleged assault occurred in Arlington, Texas, in 1997, according to the Star-Telegram. At the time, Aderholt was a student at the nearby Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary in Fort Worth. He went on to graduate in 2000 with a master’s degree in divinity. The seminary did not respond to HuffPost’s request for comment.
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