...by the teenage rape victims we shame, blame, terrorize, and ship out of state to protect their rapists:

After being raped and impregnated by a fellow churchgoer more than twice her age, a 15-year-old Concord girl was forced by Trinity Baptist Church leaders to stand before the congregation to apologize before they helped whisk her out of state, according to the police. While her pastor, Chuck Phelps, reported the alleged rape in 1997 to state youth officials, Concord police detectives were never able to find the victim. The victim said she was sent to another church member's home in Colorado, where she was home-schooled and not allowed to have contact with others her age....

[When] the girl became suspicious she was pregnant. She called Willis, who brought over a pregnancy test that came up positive, she told the police. "He asked me if I wanted him to take me to a neighboring state where underage abortions were legal . . . and he would pay for an abortion," she told the police. "He then asked me if I wanted him to punch me in the stomach as hard as he could because that might cause a miscarriage."

The victim told her mother about the pregnancy. Soon after, Phelps was also alerted. The victim said Phelps told her she would be put up for "church discipline," where parishioners go before the congregation to apologize for their sins. She asked why. "Pastor Phelps then said that (Willis) may have been 99 percent responsible, but I needed to confess my 1 percent guilt in the situation," the victim told the police.

"He told me that I should be happy that I didn't live in Old Testament times because I would have been stoned."

Chuck Phelps is no longer the pastor of Trinity Baptist Church in Concord. Today Phelps is the pastor of Colonial Hill Baptist Church in Indianapolis.