Lawsuit alleges Kanakuk Ministries and ACE American Insurance Company lied to conceal former director’s abuse Attorneys argued about culpability in Christian County Circuit Court Monday morning in a lawsuit involving a Branson-area Christian summer camp accused of conspiring with its insurer to trick a family into signing a non-disclosure agreement by concealing prior knowledge of sexual misconduct. Logan Yandell, a survivor of sexual abuse by Kanakuk Ministries’ former camp director, filed a lawsuit in 2022 alleging misstatements by the camp’s CEO led his parents to sign a settlement and non-disclosure agreement for $250,000 that they otherwise would have...

LOS ANGELES, Oct. 8, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Ken Tipton, a filmmaker and survivor of child sexual abuse, is raising awareness of the ongoing delays affecting over 82,000 sexual abuse claims against the Boy Scouts of America (BSA) through his GoFundMe campaignand upcoming film project "LOST VALLEY". The campaign aims to highlight the persistent emotional and financial impact these delays have on survivors.

Woman who accused Gateway Church founder of sexual abuse says recovery has been ‘lifelong’ A woman who says she was sexually abused by Pastor Robert Morris as a teen is finally living without shame. Cindy Clemishire still has the Christmas gift her grandmother gave her when she was 12. The white fur parka with a poofy hood and shiny pink lining hung in her parents’ closet for decades. The day she got the coat, Clemishire says, Robert Morris began sexually abusing her. She says the abuse lasted four and a half years. Now 54 and living...

Multiple survivors pressed Cordileone for more transparency from the church and a speedy resolution to the bankruptcy case, which the archbishop responded to in his statement. “Several survivors in these listening sessions asked that we do everything in our power to accelerate the Chapter 11 process to help them achieve some level of closure,” Cordileone wrote. “I agree with their perspective. We have worked diligently toward transparency and a timely resolution in collaboration with the other parties involved in this bankruptcy process, and I hope that by doing so we will be able to fulfill this desire of theirs.”...

St. Mary’s Salesian Junior High is the subject of three new statements of claim filed in Court of King’s Bench this month, seeking millions in compensation for alleged abuse at the north side school. ----- David Gordon, Keith Eisenkrein (Sieben) and Stephen Bounds are among the plaintiffs in a series of lawsuits claiming they were sexually abused while attending Edmonton's St. Mary's Salesian Junior High in the 1970s and '80s. ----- The plaintiffs are David Gordon, Axel Montaner and Keith Eisenkrein, who attended St. Mary’s in the 1970s and ’80s. The three came forward after another...

Thomas Finnerty is suing St. Mary’s Seminary and the Associated Sulpicians who run it, alleging child sexual abuse over years by a seminarian at St. Mary’s. Attorneys Michael Belsky and Catherine Dickinson, of Schlachman, Belsky, Weiner & Davey, P.A., are representing Finnerty. His alleged abuser, who is now dead, went on to be convicted in New Jersey as a priest for sexual offenses against minors.

The woman who publicly accused Gateway Church pastor Robert Morris of sexually assaulting her when she was a child has opened up to CBS News Texas about her story. Cindy Clemishire has found a new sense of peace. "Having the truth be heard," she said. "It's changed the way I feel about myself." It's been seven weeks since her story of being molested as a child first appeared in print. Within days, Robert Morris, the pastor of one of the country's largest megachurches would resign, and Gateway Church in Southlake would pledge to investigate what he...

A former counselor at Kanakuk Kamp in Branson is serving multiple life sentences for sexually abusing campers, but he will soon have a chance at parole. After serving 14 years in the Missouri Department of Corrections, Peter Newman will appear for a hearing in front of a parole board in September.

At the urging of a mutual pastor friend, Cindy Clemishire and I spoke. Cindy has wanted to tell her story for a long time. I have been writing about sexual abuse in the evangelical church for fifteen years. Cindy’s presentation of her abuse by Robert Morris was detailed, down to a description of what she was wearing when Morris’ abuse began. For the lawyers, I must say it is “alleged” abuse. However, I believed her account within short order and knew her story must be told. As our readers know, many victims of childhood abuse often blame themselves for...

Right now, survivors can file civil claims three years after realizing they were victimized or until their 28th birthday, whichever is later. Legislation proposed last year in the Michigan House would give them until they turn 52, or seven years after discovering they were a victim. That legislation has stalled.