The Concord Monitor and Change.org report that in 1997 then-15-year-old Tina Anderson was raped by Ernest Willis. Both Anderson and Willis were members of Trinity Baptist Church. When Tina became pregnant she was forced by the church to apologize publicly then sent away to Colorado to be home schooled.
Anderson is now speaking out and thirteen years later Willis is finally facing charges. This story reminds us just how much work we have to do to change the culture of blame, secrecy and denial in which sexual violence thrives.
So, let me get this straight this white trash “Ernest Willis” a church deacon in Concord, New Hampshire, at the time, rapes this child twice (15 years old, he was 38 at the time), gets her pregnant, he admits it is his child in front of the church, and this so called church (Trinity Baptist Church), and her parents, makes her stand up in front of this church congregation, as well, admit its her fault, because they believe its somehow her fault and to top it off her parents go to this same church to seek counsel on what to do with her and they both agree that she should be sent to another Baptist couple in Colorado, have the baby there and then force the child to put the baby up for adoption. You Baptists are real make me sick, is this your family values? I hope all of you involved get what’s coming to you.
Trinity Baptist Church
80 Clinton Street
Concord, NH 03301-2287
603-225-3999, info@tbcnh.org
www.tbcnh.org
Posted by: Montana | June 25, 2010 at 01:57 PM