Posted on 08/28/2014 2:03:52 PM PDT by Morgana
Two 50-year-old men filed a lawsuit Tuesday claiming the Seventh-Day Adventist Church put a man known to abuse children in charge of its youth program in the 1970s and kept him in that position even after learning he was accused of abusing a child in its ranks.
The men filed the suit in Oregon, seeking $15 million from the Maryland-based church and its Northwest and Oregon branches. The men say they were abused in the 1970s but only discovered two years ago that the church knew it had a convicted child molester in the program and did nothing.
(Excerpt) Read more at abcnews.go.com ...
2 words , Boy Scouts
Boy scouts?
According to the story it sounds like the accusers have a strong case. But why isn't the abuser named as a defendant?
The lawsuit contains photocopies of several indictments and convictions of the former youth program leader, who is not being named by The Associated Press because he is not a defendant in the lawsuit........The first indictments were in the late 1960s and others continued through the 1980s. The man was last released from prison in 2000....The man was the central figure in another suit in 2011 against the church that claimed he abused a man and the church did nothing.
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The Seventh-Day Adventists have an organization for young people which is sort of their own version of the "Boy Scouts", called "Pathfinders".
(Not sure if the current lawsuit involves that organization or not, as it is not mentioned in that ABC story.)
If only they would let them get married and not have to be celibate.......wait, wrong church.
I don’t think this group is famous for man on man lust.
My thoughts exactly
this one is currently going on in Maryland. Have no two would appear at the same time from that state. Perhaps you could fill us in?
Have no idea why I mean.
45 years is just too long...get over it and get on with your lives....
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