A former pastor of a Southern Baptist church in north Harris County faces charges of molesting a teenage relative, sometimes multiple times a day, over the course of two years, court records show.
Stephen Bratton, who resigned from Grace Family Baptist Church in Cypress Station last month, was charged Friday with continuous sexual abuse of a child, Senior Deputy Thomas Gilliland said Saturday. The 43-year-old is accused of inappropriate touching that escalated to “sexual intercourse multiple times a day or several times a week” from 2013 to 2015, Gilliland said.
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Bratton recently testified in support of failed House Bill 896 that would have abolished abortions in Texas and opened up the possibility that prosecutors could charge a woman who undergoes the procedure with criminal homicide. The offense can be punishable by the death penalty under current Texas law.
“Whoever authorizes or commits murder is guilty,” Bratton said in an April 8 hearing. “They’re guilty already in a court that is far more weighty than what is here in Texas.”
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Noting the story at no point indicates the sex of the victim. Maybe he’s not a hypocrite on abortion...but he’s not Catholic either, so a female victim is more likely.
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