Pastor Evert Valk was removed from The Door in Zwolle after a years-long abuse scandal, then tried and acquitted on a technicality. Why an acquittal is not innocence.
Abuse is rarely visible from the outside. Ask instead which church a predator would feel safe in, and the red flags stop being about a person and become about a system.
A transcript of Nomdo Schuitema’s October 2020 address reveals a second Evert Valk accuser, and how the church minimized what came before her.
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