Youth Minister Charged with Multiple Counts of Sexual Abuse, SNAP Responds

SNAP
February 6, 2014

http://www.snapnetwork.org/al_youth_minister_charged_with_multiple_counts_of_sexual_abuse_snap_responds

[Montgomery Advertiser]

A children’s minister from Alabama has been charged with over 30 counts of child sexual abuse.

Jeffery Dale Eddie was investigated after police got a call from someone at the Muscle Shoals church concerned about Eddie’s behavior.

We are so grateful to the brave whistleblower that altered authorities. It is through the brave actions of whistleblowers and victims that keeps dangerous predators away from children. We hope his arrest will give courage to anyone who may have seen, suspects, or suffered sexual abuse to call authorities.

(SNAP, the Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests, is the world’s oldest and largest support group for clergy abuse victims. We’ve been around for 25 years and have more than 15,000 members. Despite the word “priest” in our title, we have members who were molested by religious figures of all denominations, including nuns, rabbis, bishops, and Protestant ministers. Our website is SNAPnetwork.org)