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Houston Chronicle
By Anita Hassan | October 28, 2014
The attorney for the family of a teenage girl who was sexually solicited by a onetime youth pastor at Second Baptist Church demanded on Tuesday that the organization temporarily stop sending youth ministers into public schools.
Cris Feldman, who is representing the parents of the girl in a lawsuit against Second Baptist and Community of Faith Church, called for Second Baptist to publicly disclose how it screens, trains and supervises its youth ministers and monitors their social media interactions with students. Until then, the church should suspend its practice of sending youth ministers into schools, Feldman said.
Parents sue churches
The girl’s parents have filed a lawsuit in Harris County against the churches, saying they were careless in their supervision and hiring of 35-year-old Chad Foster, who pleaded guilty to trying to pressure the girl, now 17, into having sex using the Internet in 2011.
The suit states the girl met Foster during her lunch hour at school, where he was able to get her involved in activities with Second Baptist. The two started a relationship as one of religious guidance, the suit states.
On Monday, each church filed a response to the lawsuit, denying all claims.
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