ST. LOUIS (MO)
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
BY JENNIFER MANN • jmann@post-dispatch.com > 314-621-5804
ST. LOUIS COUNTY • A lawsuit against a dissolved North County church and its former pastor will proceed toward trial, but only on the claims of a husband who says his marriage counseling sessions were corrupted when the pastor started angling for an affair with his wife.
The pastor, Bill Little, has filed his own claims, of defamation and libel, and through his lawyer denied wrongdoing.
Cumulatively, filings in St. Louis County Circuit Court shed light on a fiery conflict that in 2010 did what prior allegations of misconduct against Little had not: forced him to retire after more than 50 years as pastor of the Christ Memorial Baptist Church of Cool Valley. The church then closed.
Darrell and Rhonda Pitt, of the St. Louis area, claim that in the 1980s Little used his position as a pastor and licensed psychologist to exploit their marriage and that church leaders allowed it to happen.
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