State regulators revoked the license of the daycare, called Kid’s Best Child Care, on June 30, 2023 after the girl’s mother reported the alleged abuse to police on April 21, 2023 according to a criminal complaint.

In this groundbreaking memoir and exposé, Christa Brown tells the story of clergy sex abuse and cover-ups in the largest Protestant denomination, the Southern Baptist Convention. As she shares her journey from trusting church girl to tenacious advocate for children's safety, Brown shines a light on the patterns of preacher-predators and the collusion of evangelical leaders. This Little Light speaks of the unspeakable, and...

Let Us Prey examines the pain of survivors' Independent Fundamental Baptist church members Ruthy Heiler, Kathy Durbin and Amanda Householder as they tell their stories of abuse at the hands of church leaders and the violence, manipulation and alleged cover-ups by other members.

Described as "the public face" of Baptist clergy sex abuse survivors, Christa Brown was one of the first to go public with substantiated child sex abuse allegations against a Baptist minister and documentation that others knew. Since then, for nearly two decades, she has worked to shine a light on the systemic problem of abuse and cover-ups in Baptistland. Christa has been touted...

Baptistland is a story of abuse, brokenness, and betrayal, but more than any of these things, it is the story of resilience. —Kristin Kobes Du Mez, author of Jesus and John Wayne It began with just wanting to tell the truth. But truth-telling has a way of snowballing. When Christa Brown first spoke out about the sexual abuse she endured in her...

"SBC President Bart Barber said in a blog post Monday that he approved joining the brief. He expressed regret for not asking more questions before doing so, saying he “did not give this decision to file this brief the level of consideration that it deserved.” - The Washington Post October 31, 2023

The first night her stepfather slipped into her bedroom and molested her was in 1994, when she was 11, Giana Lee says. "The next night, Giana shut her door and lined up all of her stuffed animals against it," court papers describing the alleged attacks say. "That way, in the morning, she could tell if someone had entered her room. "When she woke up...