SALISBURY, N.C. — Moral activist and Southern Baptist Convention (SBC) leader Coy Privette received “deferred prosecution” on six charges of aiding and abetting prostitution during his hearing Aug. 22.
Privette, a Cabarrus County, N.C., commissioner and former president of the Christian Action League of North Carolina, admitted to investigators that he had sex with an accused prostitute, according to the prosecutor at the hearing.
He has also served as president of the Baptist State Convention of North Carolina, trustee chair at the SBC’s Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary in Wake Forest, N.C., and a trustee of the SBC’s Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission.
Deferred prosecution means Privette, who resigned from the state convention’s board after his arrest in July, will have his record wiped clean if he performs 48 hours of community service, complies with probation requirements for a year and pays court costs. (TAB)
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