Attorney Kimberlee Norris said there is no single legal issue affecting the church today more than child sexual abuse.

“We have 750,000 registered sex offenders in our country according to 2023 figures, and one in four females and one in six males has experienced abuse before the age of 18,” she said.

“Two-thirds of those abused don’t report abuse until adulthood. The most often-spoken reason for a lack of reporting is, ‘They won’t believe me,’ and the abused typically talk with six people before anything is done to help them.”

Norris, a Fort Worth attorney and co-founder of MinistrySafe, directed a workshop at First Baptist Church Trussville on Feb. 20. The event was sponsored by the Alabama Baptist State Board of Missions.

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This article was originally published at TheAlabamaBaptist.org.