(ChurchLeaders) Hannah-Kate Williams, an outspoken advocate for abuse survivors in the Southern Baptist Convention (SBC), has filed a defamation lawsuit against 12 leaders and institutions affiliated with the SBC. Hannah-Kate is a survivor herself of alleged abuse and rape at the hands of her father, James Williams, an SBC pastor named as a defendant in the suit.
“My abuser keeps posting pics of me online without my permission,” said Hannah-Kate Williams in a post in June 2020. “So here ya go, dad. Since we’re going down memory lane. It was taken the Sunday before my 8th birthday, the day you stole my innocence. At the church you pastored. And yet, I survived. Alive today. Loved by God.”