{"id":959351,"date":"2026-05-14T13:26:14","date_gmt":"2026-05-14T13:26:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/959351\/"},"modified":"2026-05-14T13:26:14","modified_gmt":"2026-05-14T13:26:14","slug":"birmingham-pastor-in-court-over-baptism-manslaughter-charge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/959351\/","title":{"rendered":"Birmingham pastor in court over baptism manslaughter charge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">A church pastor has appeared in court over the death of a man who drowned during a baptism ceremony at a house in Birmingham.<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Cheryl Bartley, 48, is charged with one count of gross negligence manslaughter in relation to her role as a pastor during the baptism. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Robert Smith, from Brixton, London, died at an address on Slade Road, Erdington, on 8 October 2023, and the court heard that during the 61-year old&#8217;s baptism he was submerged in a pool and left for a total four minutes.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Bartley, of Erdington, appeared at Birmingham Magistrates&#8217; Court on Thursday where she did not enter any plea and spoke only to confirm her name and address.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A church pastor has appeared in court over the death of a man who drowned during a baptism&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":959352,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7820],"tags":[855,748,393,4884,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-959351","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-birmingham","8":"tag-birmingham","9":"tag-britain","10":"tag-england","11":"tag-great-britain","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/116573162063825273","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/959351","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=959351"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/959351\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/959352"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=959351"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=959351"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=959351"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}