Keuning also revealed the contents of an April 28 email to her from Husch-Blackwell, the firm leading the sexual abuse investigation, saying that any information from sources who wish to remain anonymous to ACNA leadership can’t be used to discipline clergy.
Keuning’s whistleblowing accusations have been backed up by the Rev. Gina Roes, one of the women who resigned from the Provincial Response Team charged with overseeing the investigations. Roes published a post on ACNAtoo’s website this week describing how ACNA and diocesan leaders “scapegoated ACNAtoo and the survivors for whom they advocate.”
Roes and the other two former Provincial Response Team members, Autumn Hanna VandeHei and Christen Price, told RNS that they “discovered that there was a disturbing level of hostility toward ACNAtoo” on the Provincial Response Team.
Roes, VandeHei and Price believe ACNA leaders must demonstrate “humility, repentance, and a willingness to ask for, and listen to outside, experienced help.”
“The trope that the ACNA has been victimized by ACNAtoo, that ACNAtoo is Satan’s tool sent to attack the church must be rejected,” Roes, VandeHei and Price said.
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This article originally appeared on ReligionNews.com.
