Texas Youth Pastor With 14 Victims Wins Early Release

January 6, 2023 Christianists, Crime

Houston’s Fox affiliate reports:

A former youth pastor accused of sexually abusing 14 girls at a North Texas mega church is scheduled to be released from prison next month. Denton Bible Church youth pastor Rob Shiflet was sentenced to 33 months in federal prison in 2021 for sexually assaulting two girls on church youth trips.

Denton Bible Church pastor Tommy Nelson, who is also a best-selling author of Christian books, told his congregation last Spring, that he was deceived by Shiflet.

The same day as his address to the congregation the church made available by request a five-page letter summarizing a 10-month-long investigation conducted by a third-party attorney.

The Christian Post reports:



The sentence was made after Shiflet made a plea deal which U.S. District Judge Lee Rudofsky lamented. “You are a terrible person,” Rudofsky told the former youth pastor at the time. “I don’t believe that you are sorry in the slightest. I don’t believe you have rehabilitated yourself.”

Last year, Denton Bible Church’s 15-member, all-male elder board told the congregation after an investigation that they failed to prevent Shiflet’s abuse of the young girls in the church because they didn’t involve women leaders when evaluating abuse allegations.

In total, the investigators found credible accounts that at least 14 girls were victims of Shiflet’s abuse: 11 at Denton Bible and three at Fellowship Bible. The misconduct described in these accounts was characterized by criminal sexual abuse, abuse of power, and spiritual abuse.

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