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Preacher Boys Podcast

The Difficulty of Coming Forward About Sexual Abuse in the IFB

Preacher Boys Podcast

Eric Skwarczynski

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

4.6 β€’ 701 Ratings

πŸ—“οΈ 19 April 2020

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Summary

Today's episode, Eric is joined by former IFB member, Rebecca Foltz. Rebecca shares about her experiences at churches at Northern California, Southern California, and Nevada, as well as at Golden State Baptist College in Santa Clara, CA.


Rebecca was sexually assaulted three times in thirty years, with two actively covered up by Hopewell Baptist Church in Napa Valley, CA, and the other by a church in San Diego. When she reached out to her former college president, pastor, and friend Jack Trieber about the third assault, he told her it was innapropriate to discuss and to do whatever her pastor told her to do.


Her pastor – on the counsel of the Christian Law Association – ended up firing her for it.


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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 mental,

0:14.5

physical, and sexual abuse within the independent fundamental Baptist movement. The testimony

0:20.1

shared on this podcast are told from

0:22.4

the personal experience and perspective of the survivors. Not all legal outcomes are known or final.

0:28.9

Any suspect is presumed innocent until proven guilty in the court of law. To find more information

0:34.4

about the Preacher Boys podcast and upcoming documentary, visit

0:38.4

preacherboysdoc.com or connect on Facebook, Instagram, or Twitter with the handle at Preacher Boys

0:45.7

Doc. Now, here is your host, Eric Squarsinski.

0:51.0

Hey, everybody, welcome back to another episode of the Preacher Boys podcast. This is a very powerful

0:56.4

episode. I sit down with Rebecca Fultz, who talks about her time at several churches in

1:01.5

Northern California, Southern California, and ending up in Nevada. And she just gets extremely

1:07.1

transparent about three situations of sexual assault that took place across these different

1:12.5

churches and how each church worked proactively to cover up those situations. We talk a lot about

1:18.4

mental health and the way that that affected it. We talk about the church's view on sexuality.

1:23.7

And we talk a little bit about the college culture at Golden State Baptist College.

1:29.3

And the way that Jack Treber actually personally responded to one of the allegations that was made

1:35.8

when Rebecca called from her church in San Diego to ask him for his advice.

1:41.6

And so it's a really heavy episode, but also a really powerful one.

1:45.7

Rebecca's an amazing fighter, survivor, and her perseverance and her strength through all of this

1:52.4

is really incredible. And I know it's going to be encouraging to you guys. So be sure to listen to

1:56.7

the very end. I think she has some really important takeaways that people need to be thinking

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