Who should have known?

The Southern Baptist Convention doesn’t track cases of sexual misconduct and says each SBC church is ultimately responsible for screening its employees. But since 1998, dozens of pastors, ministers and volunteers who faced allegations of misconduct went on to work at other Baptist churches. Some had an arrest or conviction on their record related to a sex crime as they crisscrossed the country or moved to neighboring communities, working in positions of trust. Charles Adcock: As a youth minister in Alabama, Adcock was charged in 2015 with 29 counts of rape and sodomy involving a 14-year-old girl. While out on bail, Adcock moved to Texas, where the First Baptist Church in Bedford allowed him to volunteer as a music minister at worship services. He pleaded to a single charge of seconddegree sodomy and served 15 months. Mark Aderholt: While working at the Southern Baptists’ International Mission Board, Aderholt was accused of sexually abusing a teenager in the mid-1990s when he attended the Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary. Aderholt went on to work at Baptist churches in Arkansas and the state Baptist association in South Carolina. Authorities arrested Aderholt last year. Alexander Edwards: As a youth pastor in Lee County, Ga., Edwards was arrested in 2013 on a charge of using the internet to find a child for a sex act. While out on bail, he volunteered at a Southern Baptist church near Atlanta. After he left that position, police arrested Edwards in April 2016 on charges of molesting an 11-year-old boy he met at the church. Chad Foster: Hired as a youth pastor at Second Baptist Church in Houston, Foster was quietly fired for reasons the church says were unrelated to sexual abuse. But Second Baptist gave Foster a good job reference and he was hired at another church, Community of Faith. The youth pastor later pleaded guilty to charges of sexually assaulting a 16-year-old girl he met at one church, and online solicitation of a 12-year-old girl he met at another. Darrell Gilyard: Accused of sexual misconduct at churches in Texas, Gilyard pleaded guilty in Florida to lewd conduct and molestation involving two minors. Despite Gilyard’s track record, another church hired him after his release from prison in 2011. John McKay: A pastor of the First Baptist Church of Hondo, McKay was arrested in 2003 on charges of sexually assaulting a teenager in his congregation. McKay served nearly nine years in prison. During the investigation, a deacon at a now-closed Baptist church in San Antonio told authorities McKay had previously committed “indiscretions” with women at the church. Doug Myers: Suspected of behaving inappropriately with boys at a church in Alabama, Myers was found guilty of molesting a child in Florida and was later charged and convicted of sex crimes in Maryland. Timothy Reddin: Convicted of a federal charge of child pornography, Reddin was preaching at a Baptist church until last year, when authorities accused him of trying to solicit a minor online. The minor was actually a federal agent. Reddin was sentenced to 10 years in prison.