Third Pressler accuser comes forward

  |  Source: Baptist News Global

Former Judge Paul Pressler, who played a leading role in wresting control of the Southern Baptist Convention from moderates starting in 1979, poses for a photo in his home in Houston on May 30, 2004. (AP Photo /Michael Stravato / Distributed by RNS)

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Paul Pressler (File Photo)

An attorney in Washington state says he resigned a position working for the longtime law partner of former Judge Paul Pressler after the co-founder of a 20th-century movement to shift the Southern Baptist Convention to the right solicited him for sexual activity.

Brooks Schott, 27, an attorney in Spokane, Wash., says in an affidavit filed April 11 in federal court that he met Houston attorney Jared Woodfill while still in law school through a religious connection set up through his father.

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