Most churches have implemented a child protection program that includes background checks. Most people with sketchy histories don’t apply, but we receive calls just about weekly from churches that have run a background check and something comes up.
It is extremely important to protect your church with tools like an Employee Handbook and Church Employee Background Screening. Of course, your good judgment is the most valuable guide, but sometimes a list of disqualifiers can help.
Here are 34 offenses that should disqualify someone from volunteering with youth and children:
- Sexual assault of a child
- Physical abuse of a child
- Kidnapping
- Incest
- Sexual exploitation of a child
- Causing mental harm to a child
- Use of a computer to facilitate a child sex crime
- Soliciting a child for prostitution
- Sexual intercourse with a child age 16 or younger
- Exposure
- Possession of child pornography
- Child sex offender working with children
- Registered sex offender photographing children
- Child neglect
- Contributing to truancy
- Strip searches by school employees
- Leaving loaded firearm accessible to a minor
- Receiving stolen property from a child
- Tattooing a child
- Battery
- Battery or threat to a witness
- Battery or threat to a judge
- Battery to an unborn child
- Sexual exploitation by a therapist
- Sexual assault
- Reckless injury
- Injury by negligent handling of a firearm
- Injury by intoxicated use of a vehicle
- Abuse of persons at risk
- Child unattended in a child care vehicle
- Stalking
- Hazing
- Mayhem
- Sexting with a child
Our job as a church insurance company is to help you mitigate church risk, but protecting children should be everyone’s top priority.
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