Bob Jones University Camp Director ARRESTED
Preacher Boys Podcast
Eric Skwarczynski
4.6 • 701 Ratings
🗓️ 23 July 2025
⏱️ 18 minutes
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Summary
UPDATE (July 23, 2025): A Bob Jones University Spokesperson provided the following statement:
"We would not send a notification email about alleged conduct especially in a situation when (as here) all of the following things are true: (a) at the time we became aware of the alleged abuse, the employee had already resigned, (b) the police are already investigating, (c) the alleged abuser’s relationship with and access to the victim were not school related, and (d) the conduct is not alleged to have occurred on campus, and (e) the school had policies and practices in place at all times to guard against the potential of abusive or exploitive relationships in the school context.
Also in that scenario, we want to (and did) cooperate fully with law enforcement and defer to their lead in the investigation. In the absence of any indication or instruction from law enforcement that we should participate in their investigation by putting out an alert or a request for information, we did not think it appropriate or necessary to “supplement” (and possibly interfere with) their investigation, particularly when, as explained above, there is not an imminent threat of additional wrongdoing in our setting.
The linked documents outline our procedures in regard to prevention and reporting."
https://www.bju.edu/life-faith/safety/policies.pdf
https://ministrysafe.com/the-safety-system/awareness-training/
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A camp director at Bob Jones University was arrested for abusing a 15-year-old girl. In this powerful episode of the Preacher Boys Podcast, I sit down with Dr. Camille Kaminski Lewis, professor at Furman University and founder of WutBJU, to expose how deep the silence and gaslighting around abuse at BJU goes.
Dr. Lewis has spent over a decade meticulously tracking arrest records and matching them to Bob Jones University yearbooks—revealing a disturbing trend of grads with histories of abuse.
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| 0:00.0 | When did you start doing that, where you would take each arrest of a pastor in Greenville and check the BJU yearbooks? |
| 0:07.3 | That was about 2010. I started doing that because people would cast doubt, well, he didn't tend. You don't know that. There's a lot of gas lighting. So evidence is important. There are a lot of graduates who are a lot of problems, and Myron Chabajdian is one of them. |
| 0:42.6 | Hey, everybody, welcome back to the Preacher Boys podcast. My name is Eric Skritsinsky, and if it's your first time tuning in, I am a former member of the Independent Fundamental Baptist Movement. And on this show, I shed a light on the dark side of the church from the pulpit to the pews. Today I'm going to be talking about two stories, one of which I covered in depth over on my substack involving the former camp director for Bob Jones University, Stephen Copp. For those of you that haven't read the story |
| 0:47.5 | yet, here is the breakdown. On July 16, 2025, Fox Carolina reported on details surrounding |
| 0:53.7 | the arrest of a former Bob Jones |
| 0:55.3 | University employee named Stephen Copp. According to the reporting, Copp was the director of |
| 1:00.6 | BJU's EduCamp from 2018 to 2024. The EDUCamp website says it provides a friendly and fun |
| 1:08.5 | summer program for campers to experience God, develop life |
| 1:12.0 | skills, and consider possible career pathways. It appears to service campers from fourth grade |
| 1:17.1 | onto seniors in high school. The arrest warrant states that during the latter part of his tenure, |
| 1:22.3 | from November 2023 to February 2024, cop was allegedly engaging in multiple sex acts with a teen victim. The victim was |
| 1:31.1 | allegedly under his guardianship at this time. He was charged for criminal sexual conduct with a minor |
| 1:36.9 | or attempt victim under 16 years of age, second degree. Records show that Stephen Copp was arrested |
| 1:43.2 | on April 16th, |
| 1:44.5 | 2012, and was released on a $25,000 bond the same day. |
| 1:49.7 | Bob Jones University released the following statement to the press. |
| 1:52.7 | We are aware of the serious allegations involving a former employee. |
| 1:57.1 | We have fully cooperated with law enforcement throughout their investigation |
| 2:00.0 | and continue to |
| 2:01.3 | encourage anyone with relevant information to come forward. |
| 2:05.1 | Since the alleged crimes were not alleged to have occurred on campus or to have been related |
| 2:09.4 | to his employment, they do not fall within the annual higher education reporting requirements |
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