re: Texas megachurch Gateway rocked by abuse scandal. 4 pastors have resigned since June

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Your take away from the story of a pastor being exposed by the woman who he sexually assaulted when she was a preteen is "Oh no, extortion! What an awful woman!"

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No, but I do think attempting to extort him before making public accusations is an odd course of action. It's a very strange way to go about doing things imo. Maybe I'm just not motivated by money like others might be. No chance I'd let someone who did something like that to me just slide on by because I'm getting paid.

If he had paid her, would she have just let it slide and allowed him to potentially abuse others? I have to assume the answer is yes or there wouldn't have been any reason to ask him for "restitution." Keeping her mouth shut is the only thing she could offer in exchange.

Now I wonder if he was paying her previously and decided to stop. Maybe that is what caused her to go public.