Johnny Hunt Admits to Affair with Pastor’s Wife, but Claims it was Consensual
Hunt castigates the report by Guidepost as being “sensationalized” and emphatically asserts that he did not groom her or arrange the encounter,
Last week, Pastor Emeritus of FBC Woodstock and former President of the Southern Baptist Convention Johnny Hunt was named in the Guidepost Solution Report as someone who engaged in sexual abuse and essentially rape against a pastor’s wife in 2010, citing testimony from multiple pastors, including Hunt’s own staff counseling pastor.
You can read more about the details here, but the gist of it is that 12 years while on vacation together with another pastor and his wife, Hunt is accused of making inappropriate comments to her about her body such as her tan lines, and then manoeuvered himself into her room, where he is alleged to have pinned her to the touch, got on top of her, forcibly removed her clothes and groped her and put his hands and mouth on the breasts and nether regions. Afterward, he apologized to her and the husband and they all did some counseling and collectively decided not to bring it up.
After the news first hit, Hunt tweeted out a brief message, reiterating that he “vigorously denies the circumstances and characterizations set forth in the Guidepost report” and that “I never abused anybody.”
Since then he’s been pretty quiet, but then this weekend he put out a message on social media to his church family at First Baptist Woodstock, further denying the claims against him.
Instead, he claims that he did not maneuver himself into her condo, but rather that she invited him, and that “against my better judgment I chose to go.”
Though he doesn’t go into any detail, he describes their interaction as a “brief, improper encounter” that was fully “consensual” but which he fled after feeling conviction about it. He states in no uncertain terms “it was NOT abuse NOR was it assault” and that “the most absurd allegation is that this brief, consensual encounter constituted assault.”
Hunt further castigates the report by Guidepost as being “sensationalized” and emphatically asserts that he did not groom her or arrange the encounter, all the while the story as told by guidepost has some truth to it, that “the allegation made in the report is false” and that “there are other details in the description that are stated as fact which did not happen.”
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