Sex offenders enrolled in seminary

Friday, April 13, 2007

WHAS-11, Louisville KY

Many of the more than 4,000 students at the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary live on campus. It takes three or four years to complete most programs here.

Among the seminary students: 25-year-old Dale Don McKee, and 33-year-old Richard Yates Quinn.

We don't know what degrees they're pursuing, but we do know both men are listed on Kentucky’s sex offender registry. Both men are listed as being on supervised release.

McKee moved here from Texas. His registry information says he was convicted of incest with a then-14 year old.

Quinn was convicted in Tennessee of receiving a photo of a minor engaged in a sexually explicit act.

We contacted the seminary about the two students and for details on the seminary's admissions policy.

Spokesman Lawrence Smith declined to release the school's admission guidelines but did provide this statement: “We are constantly updating our admissions process in light of current developments and concerns. Our policy is not to accept students who are listed on any sex offender registry.”

Smith would not comment on those two students or how they came to be enrolled at the school. Our attempts to reach them were not successful.

A Baptist minister abused Christa Brown when she was a teenager. She says the structure of the Southern Baptist Convention contributes to the problem of reporting abuse, because each church is autonomous and there's no true national oversight.

Web story produced by Jay Ditzer.

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