Landmark Baptist

The Clover Road Missionary Baptist Church of Tracy, CA has a Sunday School teacher that is pleading guilty to murdering an eight-year-old.

Like many churches, this church calls itself a:

An Independent, Biblical, Landmark, and Missionary - Minded Church.

The Sunday School teacher had a history of criminal activity. In light of this awful news, what are we doing to make sure that our teachers are safe for the church children?

Brother, I don't really have any answer to your question. My first thought was "know them that labor among you." But in this case one would think the pastor/church would have known the teacher fairly well, considering she is the pastor's granddaughter. My second thought is that we can't protect our children from everything. I don't write this to say that we should not try to protect them. But some times parents blame themselves for something they could not have expected or prevented, and the blame should be on the perpetrator of the crime.

Has this person confessed to the crime? If so, we should remember she is innocent until proven guilty. Perhaps other facts will come out that reveal this to be different than we think right now.

In general, protecting our children in the world which ours is becoming is probably going to become more difficult daily.

She is pleading guilty to the crime and I am waiting for more information to surface. This has all been quite disturbing to me.

I just posted a similar article in the News of Interest forum.