{
  "id": 6913092,
  "title": "Registered sex offender was allowed to participate at South Carolina church for decades",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/12/registered-sex-offender-was-allowed-to-participate-at-south-carolina",
  "topic": "world",
  "section": "World",
  "published": "2026-09-12T11:00:33.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "The Guardian US",
    "slug": "the-guardian-us",
    "url": "https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/sep/12/south-carolina-brookwood-church-sex-offender"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "The Brookwood Church in Simpsonville only just disqualified Jerry Sidell from serving there in any capacity A registered sex offender who was sentenced to prison in the 1980s after he told authorities that he had molested several boys whom he met through his religious work with Christian youth in Georgia was later allowed to participate for decades in ministry at a South Carolina church. The…",
  "key_points": [],
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  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
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  },
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}