Girl adopted by Earl "Butch" Kimmerling and Saundra Kimmerling

Incident date: 1998 May 1

Child placement type: Adoption

Fundamental faith involved: True

placement

Persons: Bruce Stansberry

Organizations: Madison County's Division of Family and Children Indiana Department of Child Services

After having fought a gay couple from adopting a girl, Earl Kimmerling was later found to have sexually molested her. Kimmerlings were the girls' foster parents who had 50 or more foster children before. Kimmerlings separated after the charges were filed, and the girl remains with Sandi Kimmerling. Kimmerlings attended Center of Faith Church (now Greenbriar Community Church) a pentacostal church.

Parent topics: abused adoptees