“And so when she did that is when I fondled her. And then I pulled her pants down with her help,” Hunt said. “But as I did, I came under deep conviction, stood up and said, I love my wife, and I love your family. And I shouldn’t be here. And I’m sorry. And I left.”
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Hunt claimed that he was “never given the privilege to tell that story to Guidepost,” further saying that “it was not an affair.”
Nokes asked, “It was being unfaithful to your wife?”
“Yes, ma’am. But not adultery,” Hunt said. “I thank God I stopped when I did and left. And you can deem that fornication. You are severely wrong to call it adultery.”
“And let’s be real careful to say in this very consensual relationship,” Hunt said later in the deposition. “This is not a tense lady. This is a very welcoming lady.”
Hunt confirmed that the woman is roughly the same age as his own daughter.
The alleged victim, the wife of a pastor Hunt had been mentoring, told a starkly different story in her interviews with Guidepost Solutions. According to her, Hunt asked her to place her feet on his knee and began touching them.
The woman also alleged that Hunt instigated sexual contact after the two had gone inside, inching closer to her on the couch and asking her inappropriate questions before pulling down her shorts.
The woman described the encounter as “some of the longest moments of her life.”
Guidepost Solutions deemed the testimony of the woman and those who could corroborate her story as “very credible with clear recollections.” They did not consider Hunt’s testimony credible, as his story shifted throughout the course of the investigation.
 denominational leader Johnny Hunt recently sat for a deposition in his defamation lawsuit against the SBC Executive Committee and Guidepost Solutions.){kind=link}