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Report COGIC Abuse is a victims advocacy-oriented ministry. Our goal is to help members and former members of the Church of God in Christ (COGIC) break down the dark walls of silence and inaction surrounding  leadership abuses.
Last site update: 5/12/2012
COGIC Abuse Watch blog is an outreach and information project of Report COGIC Abuse.com which is intended to give victims of sexual, land-property and financial abuses in Church of God in Christ Inc (COGIC) churches a venue to report, question and dialogue on issues affecting them.

Due to an increasing demand to address and document different forms of abuse, mismanagement and doctrinal error as well as the systematic denial of victims' voices by church leadership, it became necessary for Report COGIC Abuse to offer a real time forum. Our ongoing efforts is to help bring visibility and accountability to the nation's largest black pentecostal denomination
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Paige - murdered by a young man he picked upBell - found guilty March 2010 and sentenced to 7 years behind bars and 20 years on the sex offender registry. Malbrough - charged with second-degree child abuse, third-degree sex offense, fourth-degree sex offense, and possession of child pornography. Husband - admitted guilt in 1991, died later the same year.Weems - undisclosed financial settlement to avoid court case.AllenTateCurtis - sentenced to 15 months in prison and sexual offender registry every 90 days till the rest of his life.Ghent - found guilty Sept 2010 and sentenced to 30 years in prison.ForbesGarrisonL. Smith - found guilty and sentenced to 17 years in prison.KelleyJonesThompsonHammonsJeffersonBakerC. Smith - died before trial. Plaintiffs sued COGIC and won a million dollar settlement.WilsonPlead guilty to Sep 2, 2011 to 2 counts of lewd molestation, 5 year sentence suspended. Registered sex offender.GossMcCurdy - not prosecuted in first casel; conflicting evidence. Arrested again 5 years later for new molestation charges.FisherBishop Wren - several women claimed he targeted single women for sex; ecclesiastical status unknownCampbellBishopFulloveWatkinsElder Ronnie Powe, JrPastor Cleon Deal, Sr.Supt Joseph E. Hogan, Sr.Elder Martin Roper convicted of forcible rapeThomas Wiggins, Jrcharles brown - judge dismissed cause due to statue of limitations. COGIC reinstates 4 days laterArraigned on 10 counts of child sexual assault


Dateline: March 15, 2012

Report COGIC Abuse has obtained a copy of the civil lawsuits filed by two California women against a former Administrative Assistant to Bishop George McKinney, Southern California 2nd Jurisdiction.




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Brother of General Board member to stand trial for sexual assault of children
​Dateline: April 13, 2012

A Michigan news outlet reported March 8th that the brother of General Board member Bishop Nathaniel Wells has been ordered by a Michigan judge to stand trial on multiple counts of criminal sexual assault 

of two young girls who authorities say were members of his local church. Pastor Milton Wells had served as the Southeast Regional Administrator for Western Michigan Jurisdiction and was a well known community activist. [read more and comment]
And both women allege that Dr. Donald K. Barrett coerced and then forced them into lesbian sexual acts while he watched to "overcome" childhood sexual abuse.
Lawsuit alleges unusual sex demands
by COGIC pastor

An arrest or lawsuit does not  necessarily constitute  an individual's guilt.  Individuals appearing on this website are legally "innocent until proven guilty" by a court of law.  Sexual sin, however is in violation of God's law and per scripture individuals are indeed guilty before God.