Another Suit Filed against President of State Board of Education
By Jessica Bock
A second woman has filed a lawsuit against the president of the Missouri State Board of Education alleging sexual misconduct while in his position as a pastor at a church in Kansas City. The suit, filed Wednesday in Jackson County Circuit Court, accuses the Rev. Stan Archie of child sexual abuse, defamation and therapy malpractice that began after the woman, then 15 years old, began seeing him about 2006 for counseling at the church. It also names Archie’s church, Christian Fellowship Baptist Church, as negligent. Archie has denied all claims, saying that disgruntled members of his church are trying to hurt his reputation and get money from the church. He has been on the state board since 2006, and began his term as president this month. The women in both suits are not named in court documents, but referred to in each case separately as “Jane Doe.” In the suit filed this week, the complaint says that during counseling with Archie, he told the girl to think of him as a father figure, and to let him know if she had sex. When she did, he began to offer her tips, talked to her about sexual positions, his anatomy and encouraged her to be promiscuous and report her experiences to him, according to the suit. The woman says thatshe would talk to him online through Skype about her experiences, and that he would sometimes masturbate during the conversations, according to the suit. says.She says he told her thathe had been a pimp and that “if she had been born back in the day, he would have made her his,” the suit says. When she was 17 or 18, he began buying her gifts, paying her rent and giving her money, the complaint says. A previous lawsuit, still pending, filed in January 2012 accuses Archie of an inappropriate sexual relationship years ago with a former assistant and member of his church. It says Archie abused his position in the church to take advantage of the woman and begin a sexual relationship as he gave her counseling, according to court documents. It also names his church in the suit, saying officials failed to protect her and others at the church by hiding previous reports of impropriety. Archie founded Christian Fellowship Baptist Church in 1989 and he is married with three children, according to the church’s website. “These allegations are false, and we expect Reverend Archie and the Church to ultimately be vindicated,” his attorney, Michael McCausland, wrote in a statement. A spokeswoman for the Missouri Department of Elementary and Secondary Education said officials are aware of the lawsuits, but declined to comment further. Contact: jbock@post-dispatch.com
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