Church Sued For Not Reporting Abuse By Preacher

The Charleston (SC) Post and Courier reported last week that a lawsuit has been filed against the North Charleston (SC) Full Word Ministries on behalf of a plaintiff identified only as Joshua Doe, charging that a church official knew that its former pastor, Tyrone Moore, was sexually abusing plaintiff and failed to report it to authorities. In 2009, Moore (a charismatic preacher) was sentenced to 30 years in prison for molesting or assaulting 8 young boys at his home or in his church over a several year period. Twenty years earlier he had plead guilty to sexually abusing girls at his grandfather's church.