By Jeannie Blaylock
First Coast News
November 5, 2007
http://www.firstcoastnews.com/news/local/news-article.aspx?storyid=95079
JACKSONVILLE, FL -- Former Trinity Baptist pastor Dr. Bob Gray has been taken off life support.
Gray had been at Shands Jacksonville since mid-October for an undisclosed medical condition.
More than twenty women and a man claim Dr. Gray abused them as children.
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Gray's criminal trial had been scheduled to begin later this month, but after his hospitalization the judge delayed the trial pending a status hearing in mid-December.
If there is no criminal trial, a civil trial can still go forward.
Miami attorney Adam Horowitz is handling the civil lawsuits against Trinity Baptist. Horowitz says there are six civil cases and he anticipates more.
Horowitz says Dr. Gray is not a defendant, which means the civil action can continue.
The lawsuits claim Trinity knew Dr. Gray was a child molester and did nothing to protect the children.
Horowitz says he took a 27-page deposition from Dr. Gray just weeks before the pastor became ill.
Horowitz says Gray took the Fifth Amendment 150 times.
"We fell the 5th is typically used by criminal defendants to conceal their own wrongdoing," said Horowitz. "If they have nothing to hide they don't need to assert the 5th Amendment privilege."
The deposition will be read at trial.
Horowitz believes a jury trial may happen next summer.
The attorneys for Bob Gray and Trinity have denied any wrongdoing.
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