INDIANA
South Bend Tribune
Posted on Mar 14, 2015
by Margaret Fosmoe
Anabaptist Mennonite Biblical Seminary in Elkhart will host an event March 22 to acknowledge institutional responsibility for sexual exploitation against women by the late John Howard Yoder, who was a prominent Mennonite theologian, and to help bring peace and closure to his victims.
Yoder, who died in 1997 at age 70, was a longtime faculty member and president at a Mennonite seminary in Elkhart and also taught for 30 years at the University of Notre Dame.
Allegations that Yoder had sexually abused, harassed and assaulted women circulated for decades, and were publicly reported in 1992, although he never was charged with any crime. Many of the women were students or others Yoder met through his academic and religious work.
The allegations about his behavior toward women ranged from groping to pressure to disrobe to sexual contact.
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