ATLANTA — Four pastors who spent months counseling Johnny Hunt are drawing criticism from victim advocates and some Southern Baptist Convention leaders for saying the disgraced evangelical leader is restored and ready to return to ministry.
Hunt, a former SBC president, was named in a landmark third-party investigation by Guidepost Solutions into the mishandling of sex abuse allegations in the denomination after the wife of a fellow pastor claimed he sexually assaulted her in 2010 in a Florida condo.
Hunt denied the allegations of assault or abuse and apologized for what he calls “a brief, but improper encounter” with the woman, who was not identified. He said it was consensual.
