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light on decades of mental, physical, and sexual abuse within the independent fundamental

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of the survivors.

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Now, here is your host, Eric Squarsinski.

Hey, everybody, welcome back to the Preacher Boys podcast. I am bringing you an update to a story I posted about back in October of 2020. And, man, after 200 plus episodes of the show, you'd think we'd have run out of Hiles Anderson graduates to talk about, but alas,

here we are again. Back in October of 2020, I posted about a youth pastor named Sean Higgins.

He worked at Harbor Baptist Church, and he also served as a teacher at the Harbor Baptist

Academy, a private K-12 school with an enrollment of about 75 students that was housed

in the same facility. So the story that broke originally was that the pastor posed as a teenage

girl on social media where he contacted underage boys. He had six identified victims as of

October 30th, 2020, that ranged in age from 12 to 15 and lived in

Alabama, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and South Dakota. So I shared that story back then, but then

there's been an update just this month. So this was posted by the Daily Voice in Burlington.

This article came out on August 19th, 2022, and the number has now gone from six identified victims to 13 victims, and the New Jersey

youth pastor, Sean Higgins, has been indicted for online sexual

exploitation in multiple states. So this is the article. I'll read it for you right now. It says

a Burlington County teacher and youth pastor has been indicted for coaxing underage boys on

social media to send them nude pictures and videos,

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