Posted on May 21, 2008 | by Norman Jameson RALEIGH, N.C. (BP)–

A church is “foolish” not to conduct background checks on employees and children’s workers, an investigator and former police officer says.

Roger Self, 53, who has been in church for 30 years and in law enforcement for longer, said there is “more criminal activity in the church” than ever before.

With sex crimes surfacing almost weekly in schools and churches not immune, Self, a member of Hardin Baptist Church in Dallas, N.C., said churches and schools must do everything they can to protect themselves.

“The days when nobody would sue a church are over,” Self said.
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