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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]She was also a church volunteer.  Seeing her name in the same paragraph as youth ministry is sickening: https://myemail.constantcontact.com/St--Paul-s-Memorial-Church-Weekly-Update-for-August-23--2018.html?soid=1124684668493&aid=zdXIklZcnZA[/quote]

Unfortunate however there are no rules or screening requirements for either. [/quote]

As a former children's ministry volunteer, that is not entirely true. Yes, most churches don't screen volunteers like preschools etc do, but most do have safeguards in place,  for example, in our church every person who works with children needs to take a securely abuse awareness course and no adult is allowed to be alone with children, there always need to be 2 or more adults with any children's activity. In addition, married or partnered couples are not allowed to be alone with children. Meaning my husband and I never taught a Sunday school class together and if we did, we would have needed an additional person there. [/quote]

I think it varies, my church required fingerprint background checks for Sunday School teachers.

Nothing would have red flagged her prior to 2019, and since conviction was vacated on appeal (thanks Eppa!!!), likely nothing would after. There is value in checks, but, it is somewhat limited. [/quote]

Most churches don't aggressively ensure there are always 2 adults around when they are working with children. As much as Boy Scouts is maligned, when my kids joined their troop was rabid about this rule. Even emails had to include more than one adult. [/quote]

For over 20 years, our church has fingerprinted/background checked anyone working with children and definitely have the 2 person rule. [/quote]

Someone upthread was appalled at churches carrying insurance against abuse and molestation. I work for a small youth-serving non-profit and the process we have needed to go through to get that insurance has been rigorous. Among our rules:
-all staff and volunteers need to have a full background check with fingerprints
-we all have to complete a four hour training about recognizing abuse and mandatory reporting (I think this is really important because once you have a critical mass of adults trained to recognize red flags and empowered to say something that provides an important safeguard)
-no adult is to be alone with a child/teen (including not being alone in a bathroom together, not giving any rides to students, not arranging off site meet ups, not being friends on social media, not showing special favor to one youth)

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