WAKE FOREST, N.C. (BP) — A chapel service for the seminary community and a meeting for campus residents have followed the arrest of a Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary student on sexual assault charges on Saturday, March 17. The student, William Watson Birch, 43, was compliant with police and confessed to the crime against a 25-year-old male student at the Wake Forest, N.C., campus, Birch has been removed from student housing and expelled from the seminary.
