Cleveland, Georgia – The Baptist College in northeastern Georgia will not return its president after investigating whether he ignored the allegations that the former official was misuse of students.
Truett McConnell Secretary at Cleveland announced on Friday that Emir Caner will not return. Caneer has been on vacation since June, when the trustees rented the study of allegations that the former official and the professor had sexual assault on a woman who was a student and then a university employee. She claims that she was attacked again and again when she went to the man’s house to study the Bible.
John Yarbro, the director of graduates and public policy that was appointed as the prosecutor in June, will become the temporary president. The trustees said they were handing over a committee to search for a permanent leader.
The procedure came after the investigator presented the results he reached on Thursday. The university did not reveal these results. At a press conference on Friday, Yarbro said the details of the Caneer chapter were still being negotiated.
“But I can tell you that I am a temporary president, and Dr. Caneer, President of the University, is no longer today.”
Southern Baptists faced allegations that Hundreds of church leaders and workers They offended people over the years and that the sect has not done enough to prevent abuse. In Truett McConnell, the case created a stir between faculty and graduates. A rare public protest took place outside the guardian meeting in June calling for the removal of Canir.
Caneer said in a video posted on social media after he was on vacation that he was saddened that “one of our family members had been injured in this way.” But he denied hiding or ignoring any attacks.
Caneer said in the video: “Although there was no cover, there was no ninth title or a complaint in human resources, there was no petition that I came to my office at all. We have to do what was better,”
The former student discussed the allegations of sexual assault at the May 29. Tweet McConnell issued a statement on May 30, saying that he was first familiar with allegations in February 2024, when the university official informed that he was under investigation by the Sharif Office of White County “regarding an inappropriate relationship.”
The 3100 students say that the employment of the official ended within a few days and that the school leaders later learned that the official had sent “hundreds” of emails “that she lacks sexually and a theological distributor” from a personal account. The vice of Sharif concluded that there was not enough evidence to request criminal charges, according to a report submitted by the former student lawyer, Maria Shin.
Cannir’s opponents claim that he took revenge against two officials who pressed him in these allegations, and expelled them from their jobs. The school denied any revenge.
Shin wrote a letter to trustees about allegations in February. But Shin said that the university was aware of the demands long before 2024, citing a previous petition to remove the official from the teaching.
Shin said that the student did not charge Truett McConnell because she was prohibited under the limitation law for a period of four years in Georgia. However, Jeff Langley County County Lawyer said he had a renewed look at the case.