Josh Duggar's Rehab Center Pastor Seems To Be Protecting Alleged Sexual Predator And Its Ex-Pastor Was Jailed For Sex With Minor

By R. Siva Kumar - 01 Sep '15 15:40PM

It doesn't end! Josh Duggar went into a rehabilitation centre last Friday, after he admitted his sexual escapades.

But Reformers Unanimous, the Christian rehabilitation center, has been revealed to be run by a pastor who seems to be protecting a sexual predator from prosecution by safeguarding him abroad, according to religious website Patheos.

"Josh Duggar checked into Reformers Unanimous (RU), a Christian residential addiction treatment program in Rockford, Illinois, run by North Love Baptist Church and co-founded by the church's authoritarian Independent Fundamentalist Baptist (IFB) pastor, Paul Kingsbury," the report reads. "Over the past twenty-four-hours, I have spoken with a number of individuals involved with or affected by either North Love or Kingsbury. Of primary importance are allegations that Kingsbury is actively supporting an accused sex offender, Richard DeVall, who is serving as a missionary in Bolivia and is sponsored by North Love Baptist Church. ..."

In 2012, DeVall had been charged of committing sexual assault in the 1990s at Bob Jones University and had been thrown out of the university, before he had been taken back, according to hngn.

The victim had contacted the Baptist Pioneer Mission Agency, requesting that the accused should be brought back to the US in order to face criminal charges. However, DeVall refused to come back, explaining that "the issue would be resolved biblically".

This mission too was responsible in protecting him and helping him stay abroad, according to The Inquisitr.

Moreover, another former pastor at the Reformers Unanimous had been jailed for intercourse with an underage girl during a church conference in 2012, after telling her "God approves." He was Jack Allen Schaap, 56, who agreed that he had committed a felony count of criminal sexual assault in a deal with prosecutors.

At present, he is on a 12-year prison sentence for his crimes, according to the Daily Mail.