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Child sex abuse amendments ratified

Changes prompted by Pruitt case represent a 'fundamental shift' in PC(USA) response

Presbyterian News Service

June 14, 2005

by Jerry L. Van Marter

  LOUISVILLE — Eleven constitutional amendments designed to toughen discipline of child sexual abusers in the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) have been ratified by the denomination’s presbyteries.

     With results in from 156 of the 173 presbyteries, each of the 11 amendments to the PC(USA)’s Rules of Discipline has received at least 120 votes. The number required for ratification was 87.

     The amendments will become part of the PC(USA)’s Book of Order (constitution) on July 3.

     The amendments were prompted by a 2002 report detailing 51 incidents of sexual abuse committed against 22 children and adolescents by PC(USA) mission personnel in the Congo between 1945 and 1985.          [Read more]

 

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