Groomed: Pastors who Prey on Adult Congregation Members #ChurchToo

Content and Trigger Warning: Session discusses grooming, sexual violence and suicide.

Jane Kennedy talks with Jaime Simpson in this session as she presents her research on the grooming of adult members of Pentecostal (or evangelical) churches in Australia.

Jaime shares her findings and the framework she has developed to support victim/survivors’ understanding and language around their experience as well as for practitioners working with this cohort.

We acknowledge the Indigenous people of the lands we have recorded on. Our speakers and hosts are located on Aboriginal Country all across the lands now called Australia and Maori lands across Aoteoroa. We pay our respect to Indigenous elders who are custodians of these lands and extend that respect to any Indigenous people attending our event.