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... The women have spent decades trying to forget, but some memories haunt them. The way the children's pastor wrapped them in his arms. The terrifying stories he told about demons and the warmth in his voice as he promised to protect them. The chill of his hands on parts of their bodies where no grown man's hands should be. The blood some of them found in their underwear afterward.

They can still picture the spaces where it happened: A church nursery. A childhood bedroom. His garage during a youth group sleepover.

This, they say, is the dark secret behind the public ministry of Joseph Lyle Campbell, a magnetic Pentecostal preacher who built a national following with fiery sermons on sin, salvation and America's moral decline. ...