Jon Paul Sheptock, 49, served as the worship minister at the First Montgomery Baptist Church in Texas before these shocking allegations came to light.
The Human Trafficking and Child Exploitation Unit eventually caught up with the suspect while he was working at a local women’s prison where he served as a minister.
At a Donald Trump rally in January 2022, Sheptock was recruited to sing the national anthem before later posing with the president and his son for pictures.
I don’t think of black people when I think Baptist, but I certainly think of the south, and with the black population being higher there it’s more likely that there are black congregations.
But honestly it’s not close enough to being a “black-only thing” that you could use Baptist as slang for black.