Covenant School Shooter May Have Been Motivated by "Cultish" Coverup of Sexual Abuse By Church Leaders

Transgenderism points to CIA MK-Ultra programming

By Tom Pappert (Published by The Tennessee Star under the headline “New Court Filing Claims Covenant School Shooter Audrey Hale Possibly Motivated by Alleged Child Abuse Coverup”)

Shooter Audrey Hale; former head deacon John Perry

A motion to intervene filed on Monday in the court case seeking to compel the release of the manifesto written by Covenant School killer Audrey Elizabeth Hale claims the shooter’s motivation for committing the attack may stem from an alleged child abuse coverup at the school. [Covenant Presbyterian Church is located in Nashville, Tennessee, and the shooting occurred on March 27, 2023.]

The motion was filed by Austin Davis, who claimed in a signed affidavit to be “a former Covenant Presbyterian deacon and church member, and a former Covenant School father” who also purports to be a “child sex abuse whistleblower.” The Tennessee man said he faced retaliation for the claims he made against the school.

The former deacon and his daughter, Daisy Davis, who was a classmate of Hale in the early 2000s, previously sued the church in 2013 claiming it concealed the crimes of a “confessed child molester” [John Perry] in a “cult-like fashion” and placed children in the predator’s “safe house.” The lawsuit was ultimately dismissed, and in 2016, the Tennessee Court of Appeals upheld the dismissal.

In his motion, Austin Davis claims he and his family resigned from the church in 2006 after receiving unsatisfactory answers about “the safety and welfare of vulnerable children” he claims were placed in a “safe house” owned by John Perry, a former chairman of the Covenant Presbyterian Church Diaconate.

Perry, the man Austin Davis claimed to be the beneficiary of the coverup, previously co-authored books with former Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee and former Alabama Supreme Court Justice Roy Moore.

Austin Davis claimed in a memo in support of his request to intervene that Hale’s final message before her attack, in which she reportedly wrote that she “left more than enough evidence behind” to explain her attack that claimed the lives of three children and three adults, left him “persuaded that a reasonable possibility does exist that Audrey Hale returned to the Covenant School campus” to commit her attack “as possible ‘revenge-vengeance’ for her own sexual abuse and/or bullying as a child.”

In addition to requesting the court accept his motion to intervene in the case, Austin Davis likewise asked the court to allow or compel the testimony of a group of current and former Covenant parents, administrators, Metropolitan Nashville Police Dept. officers, and government officials.

Hale, who reportedly identified as a transgender man before her death, committed the shooting on March 27, 2023.

Star News Digital Media Inc., the parent company of The Tennessee Star, is a plaintiff in the lawsuit seeking to compel the manifesto’s release, and the amicus brief came as the court issued a series of court deadlines ahead of a hearing scheduled for April 16. Plaintiffs are expected to receive a trial date during that hearing.

A separate lawsuit by Star News Digital Media Inc. against the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) similarly requests the law enforcement agency release the manifesto to the public. Despite the leak of three pages from Hale’s manifesto last year, the FBI previously claimed releasing even one page from the document would jeopardize an ongoing investigation.

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Tom Pappert is the lead reporter for The Tennessee Star, and also reports for The Georgia Star News, The Virginia Star, and The Arizona Sun Times. Follow Tom on X/Twitter. Email tips to pappert.tom@proton.me

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Covenant Presbyterian Church, which has been accused of covering up child sexual abuse by its head deacon, John Perry, filed a motion to prevent the release of shooter Audrey Hale’s journals and other writings. https://www.wsmv.com/2023/05/16/covenant-school-files-motions-intervene-release-shooters-writings/

May 16, 2023

NASHVILLE, Tenn. - The Covenant Presbyterian Church of Nashville is looking to prevent certain parts of The Covenant School shooter’s writings from being released to the public, according to a recent motion filing.

. . . to “protect its interests relating to the release of records sought” by the two organizations. Specifically, the groups are interested in the personal journals and other writings seized from Audrey Hale’s home on March 27.

While acknowledging the public need to know what motivated Hale to murder six people, including three children that day, the church is concerned parts of the documents may jeopardize the security of their facility and the personal safety of its members.

“The records sought in Petitioners’ Complaint and Petition may include and/or relate to information owned by Covenant Church, including, but not limited to, schematics of church facilities and confidential information pertaining to Covenant Church employees. Covenant Church is so situated that the disposition of this action may impair or impede its ability to protect its interests and the privacy of its employees. Therefore, intervention by Covenant Church in this action is warranted.” - Motion to Intervene by The Covenant Presbyterian Church of Nashville