We’ll fight it tooth and nail.”Shea sent The Texas Monitor an amended complaint in which he added a defamation claim against Woodfill, and said the statement of the lawyer is also imputed to his client, Pressler.Shea said the Southern Baptist Convention isn’t named in the lawsuit, therefore Rollins couldn’t be trying to extort money from it.“This is what happens when you decide you’re going to fight a lawsuit tooth and nail. CTRL + SPACE for auto-complete.The attorney for a Houston man accusing former Texas state judge and lawmaker Paul Pressler of sexual molestation tells The Texas Monitor he’s received calls from other people with similar allegations.“I’m getting a lot of responses from a lot of people,” Daniel Shea told The Texas Monitor in an exclusive interview.Shea said he plans to include those who agree to be named in a disclosure document listing people with knowledge of facts relevant to the case. Judge Paul Pressler is a key leader in the conservative effort to tighten the reins of theological beliefs within the Southern Baptist Convention. Pressler attended both First and Second Baptist churches.The dismissal would end First Baptist’s involvement in the lawsuit.“First Baptist considers that the case against it is basically over,” said First Baptist attorney Barry Flynn.Rollins’ attorney, Dan Shea, said he will appeal the judge’s decisions if all remaining claims are dismissed.
He served in the Texas House from 1957 to 1959 and as a justice on the 14 last decade, arguing a letter that then-Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, who would soon become Pope Benedict XVI, sent to all Catholic bishops in 2001 constituted a conspiracy to obstruct justice. His attorney, Albertus Wiesedeppe III, did not return an email requesting comment.Woodfill also told the Texas Tribune the lawsuit was “an attempt to extort money” and said he planned to file a counterclaim against Rollins and Shea for their “frivolous and harassing lawsuit.”Pressler is a leader in the Southern Baptist Convention and its recent “conservative resurgence,” an effort to remove liberal influence within the church for fear it was eroding core values.
But today, one of the luminaries of the Southern Baptist Convention has felt the sting of accusation. What’s the lawyer game there? on Aug. 16, 2007.Retired Judge Paul Pressler of Houston, and the Rev. Rollins seeks $1 million in damages. Kampis formerly served a similar role at Watchdog.org. “Let them squiggle and wiggle and raise all the hell they want to, but the point is that this is a legitimate lawsuit and it’s going to go forward.”Woodfill did not return a call from The Texas Monitor seeking comment placed to his law office. | Screenshot: YouTube) A Texas judge has dismissed sexual abuse and conspiracy charges against state district judge Paul Pressler, who is considered one of the engineers of the Southern Baptist …
The leaders of this revolt were Texas Judge Paul Pressler and the Rev. An online journal called the Texas Monitor has reported that Judge Paul Pressler is being sued by a man named Gareld Duane Rollins who claims that Pressler molested him from the time he was 14 years old in 1979 through 2014. "He declined to comment further on the nature of the 2004 lawsuit.Woodfill, who represented Pressler in the 2004 lawsuit, declined to comment on the settlement, saying it was confidential.
By David Roach Baptist Press HOUSTON (BP) — A lawsuit alleging decades of sexual abuse by retired Texas state judge Paul Pressler has named a Southern Baptist Convention entity among its co-defendants. Paige Patterson, claiming the others helped cover up the alleged molestations. That motion will be heard on Jan. 16. Rollins is clearly a deeply troubled man, with a track record of multiple felonies and incarceration, and it is the height of irresponsibility that anyone would present such a bizarre and frivolous case — much less report on it,” Tredennick told the outlet.The Tribune said Tredennick wouldn’t provide further comment or respond to specific questions.Pressler repeatedly vouched for Rollins when he was being considered for parole on his various crimes. A Hill on Which to Die: One Southern Baptist's Journey [Pressler, Paul] on Amazon.com. This is 40 year old anger because that’s how long Paul Pressler has been victimizing young boys who whose parents told them to trust him… So sad… so many covered for him… so many trusted him… he is a sick pervert and he knows it… so glad it is coming out before he dies.Johnny Kampis is a reporter for The Texas Monitor. Paige Patterson (NOT PICTURED) of Forth Worth, steered the Southern Baptist Convention to the right. I only know my personal situation with Paul Pressler and he is disgusting. Rollins claims the abuse began when he was just 14. Rollins asserted that the alleged assaults pushed him toward the drugs and alcohol that landed him in prison multiple times.In 2016, a psychiatrist concluded that Rollins had suppressed memories of rapes and suffered from post traumatic stress disorder as “a direct result of the childhood sexual trauma he suffered.” Three other men have since alleged in sworn statements filed in the lawsuit that they were groped or solicited for sex by Pressler, dating back to the late 1970s and as recent as 2016, court records show.The judge, however, ruled that Rollins’ sexual assault allegations were too old to fall within the state’s statute of limitations.Rollins and his attorney, Shea, said they filed the most recent lawsuit in part because of concerns that Pressler, who is almost 90, would stop the monthly $1,500 payments he agreed to make through 2029 under the settlement. ASSOCIATED PRESS Paul Pressler is a former justice on Texas' 14th Court of Appeals and a prominent figure in the Southern Baptist Convention.
Former Texas state judge and lawmaker Paul Pressler.