FBC Hammond Pastor John Wilkerson Addresses Joseph Eyer Arrest

Preacher Boys Podcast

Eric Skwarczynski

Documentary, Society & Culture, Religion & Spirituality, True Crime, Christianity

4.6 • 701 Ratings

🗓️ 17 June 2021

⏱️ 21 minutes

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Original Story: https://regionnewssource.org/merrillville-man-charged-with-child-molesting/

Preacher Boys Original Post: https://www.instagram.com/p/CQHLIHNJjLC/

Wilkerson's Full Statement: https://www.instagram.com/p/CQOqmDgpHns/

First, my concern about child abuse from staff and volunteers at FBC is not fueled by “anger & malice against the Lord.”

More time in this statement was addressing the ones discussing molestation in the church than the man who was actually molesting children.

Second, you do not address a 20+ year member being arrested for child molestation by saying to the congregation who is unaware, “God bless you. That’s wonderful. Be simple to things that are evil.”

Instead, why don’t you - as a leader - ask parents to speak to their children?

Why don’t you give out the detective’s phone number so everyone knows who to go to?

This man had access to children in Sunday school classrooms and on bus routes for two decades - parents NEED to know that something could have happened and when.

Lastly, “God has helped us do the right thing time after time.” Why are there two negligence lawsuits against FBC Hammond in regards to child sexual abuse currently?

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0:00.0	Trigger warning. This podcast contains descriptions of various abusive situations. Listener discretion is
0:07.3	advised. You are listening to the Preacher Boys podcast, a podcast shedding light on decades of
0:13.9	mental, physical, and sexual abuse within the independent fundamental Baptist movement.
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0:45.7	Doc. Now, here is your host, Eric Squarsensky.
0:50.7	So for those of you who didn't already see it, I posted two days ago about the arrest of
0:56.6	Joseph Iyer. Joseph was a bus captain and Sunday school teacher at First Baptist Church
1:01.6	in Hammond, Indiana for many years. And on June 9th, 2021, Gary Police Detective Olivia
1:08.5	Vasquez secured charges against Iyer, a 50-year-old male from
1:12.2	Merrillville, according to Lieutenant Don Westerfield. The charges date between July of 2015 and December of 2017,
1:19.5	Iyer sexually molested a child under 14 years of age while living in Gary. Iyer was taken to custody on June 10,
1:25.5	2021 by Merrillville Police Department at his residence.
1:29.4	Joseph R. Iyer faces three counts of child molesting as a level four felony,
1:34.4	sexual misconduct with a minor as a level five felony, and sexual battery as a level six felony.
1:39.6	If you want to read the full story, of course, you can head over to region newsource.org. I'll have a link to that
1:45.6	in the show notes of this episode. Obviously, this is just an arrest. So there is the angle of
1:52.5	innocent until proven guilty. But nonetheless, this needs to be taken extremely seriously.
1:57.4	Victims need to be believed. Although there is a legal process that has to happen,
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