Southern Baptist Church Releases List of Suspected Abusers
Local News Staff 
The Southern Baptist Convention recently released the names of dozens of former church leaders potentially or actively known to be abusers within the denomination.
The following seven men were listed with ties to Central Florida:
- Harley Francis, of Powers Drive Baptist Church. He was sentenced to prison for abusing six girls in 1986.
- Nathan John Gorzelancz, of the Guardian ad Litem program in Volusia County. He was sentenced to prison for abusing a child under 16 in 2017.
- Thomas Warren Halsey, of First Baptist Church Leesburg. He was sentenced to prison for abusing a child under 12 in 2016.
- David Joe Rich, of Springs Community Baptist Church Apopka. He was sentenced to prison for abusing second and third graders between 1995 and 1998.
- John Maxwell Ware, First Baptist Church Pine Castle. He was sentenced to prison for abusing a child under 12 in 2018.
- Samuel Yoon from California. He pleaded guilty to soliciting a 14-year-old girl during an Orlando youth conference in 2013.
- Thomas Gilmore, of First Baptist Church Oviedo. He was accused of abusing a teenager in 1969 while he worked in Texas.
