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Minister charged with sex abuse
by Adam Behsudi
Transylvania County Baptist church on Thursday defended one of its ministers after his arrest on charges of sexually abusing children more than 20 years ago.
The Rev. Duain A. Whittemore, the director of Anchor Baptist Church’s Missions International, was charged by the Greenville County Sheriff’s Office in South Carolina with two counts of second-degree criminal sexual conduct with a minor.
Anchor Baptist’s minister the Rev. Randy Collinwood Barton said allegations against Whittemore, 66, were motivated by money.
Whittemore is accused of assaulting a 13-year-old girl and another girl younger than 16, the sheriff’s office said. The crimes are alleged to have happened at a South Carolina orphanage between 1976 and 1984.
A woman, now 44, said Whittemore had intercourse with her when she was younger than 16, according to warrants.
Police in South Carolina have arrested two other people also on charges that they sexually abused children at Tabernacle Baptist Children’s Home.
Whittemore made his first appearance in a Transylvania County court Thursday to begin his extradition to Greenville County, where he will face trial.
He could not be reached after the hearing.
Barton said Whittemore has known about the allegations of abuse since April.
The missionary pastor “voluntarily curtailed his travels just because of the allegations,” Barton said. Whittemore has traveled often to countries in South America and Asia but surrendered his passport Thursday, Barton said.
Barton said he was shocked when Transylvania County Sheriff’s deputies swarmed the Pisgah Forest church Friday and arrested Whittemore.
“Why not just pick up the phone and say we got a problem, we need you to come down,” he said.
The Greenville County Sheriff’s Office said issuing a fugitive warrant to arrest someone in another state is standard procedure.
Barton said the arrests of the men come at the same time the children’s home is involved in a legal dispute with a former student and could be “an effort to strengthen that pending civil suit for an unlimited amount of monetary compensation.”
Greenville County Sheriff’s Lt. Shea Smith said he didn’t have any knowledge of a lawsuit and its relation to the ongoing investigation of abuse allegations at the children’s home.
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