Starting in 2021, substantial allegations of abuse and abuse mishandling have been made against @midwestanglican Bishop Stewart Ruch.

acnatoo.org/presentment Bp. Ruch took a leave of absence in 2021 and @the_acna brought in a law firm to investigate. Since then, 2 presentments have been submitted, one by 3 bishops in December 2022, and another by lay members and clergy—most of whom were resident in @MidwestAnglican —in June 2023.

The Husch Blackwell report that @The_ACNA published on September 27 contains graphic details of the sexual abuse of a minor, in spite of personal and explicit details of other survivor and witness testimonies being heavily redacted. This child’s parents chose not to participate in the investigation and did not give consent for any details of their daughter’s sexual abuse to be included in the report.

Abuse in the church is everyone’s problem. ACNAtoo stands in solidarity with the survivors of abuse in the Southern Baptist Convention.
acnatoo.org/acnatoo-news/s… We acknowledge with the deepest gratitude the decades of grueling work SBC survivors have invested in their struggle for justice, which has paved the way for others to come forward. Their tireless efforts have inspired us and provided a model for our work.

If you've just learned of the crisis in @The_ACNA, here's how we got to this point. Based on these facts, where do you want to see the Anglican Church in North America take the next step?

Today the following letter was provided to an ACNAtoo survivor advocate (with permission to share and publish as they saw fit) by @autumnvandehei, @artofbreathing, and @Christen_P5, former members of the Provincial Response Team. acnatoo.org/acnatoo-news/p… The letter has the support of Executive Committee member Albert Thompson and is published in its entirety on our website and in the thread below as the authors wish for their concerns to be shared widely:

As part of our ongoing advocacy, #ACNAtoo offers our platform to ACNA survivors who choose to tell their abuse stories publicly.

We have compiled guidelines for stories of sexual abuse (and soon for spiritual abuse as well) to help survivors navigate this process. What happens when you reach out with a story? Let's walk together through our sexual abuse survivor story guidelines: acnatoo.org/telling-your-s…

Part 4 of our Time for Action series will address the concerns regarding additional disciplinary actions, as outlined in our July 15 Open Letter to Archbishop Foley Beach. acnatoo.org/acnatoo-blog/t… In our open letter, we specifically called out three leaders for their grave dereliction of duty: acnatoo.org/acnatoo-blog/o…

We're publishing this guest thread by A&L (Angela & Laura), two #ACNAtoo survivors from All Souls Anglican Church in Wheaton, IL (Diocese of Pittsburgh). You can also read their expanded post on our blog: acnatoo.org/news/our-story… A&L: While the hashtag is #ACNAToo, some of you might be under the impression that a more accurate hashtag would be #UpperMidwestToo. But we know better. We, Angela and Laura, are two survivors at @AllSoulsWheaton in the Diocese of Pittsburgh.

In her first guest thread, CM (Cherin Marie) described @MidwestAnglican's mishandling of her daughter's sexual abuse allegations against Catechist Mark Rivera.

https://twitter.com/ACNAtoo/status/1412957114620809221

Cherin said that Christ Our Light Anglican Church (COLA) leaders pressured her not to report the abuse to civil authorities.

This is that story.

We’re publishing this guest thread from the mother of the 9yo victim of sexual assaults by Mark Rivera. We’ll be using her initials to protect her & her daughter’s identity. She wants to correct the record about public statements put out by @ChurchRez & @MidwestAnglican. #ACNAtoo Who’s who:
@StewartRuch: Bishop of @MidwestAnglican
@ChurchRez: Diocesan headquarters in Wheaton, IL, where CM, the victim's mother, attended for 18 years
Christ Our Light Anglican Church (COLA): small church in Big Rock, IL that CM helped plant in 2013