Man Files Suit against Former Midstate Youth Minister for Alleged Sex Abuse

By Amy Leigh Womack
The Telegraph
January 19, 2017

http://www.macon.com/news/local/article127414859.html

A man who attended Macon’s Mulberry United Methodist Church in the 1980s has filed suit against a former youth minister there, alleging that he was molested as a child.

The lawsuit, which names Perry Sandifer as the sole defendant, alleges that the man was 12 or 13 years old when Sandifer groped him and engaged in other “unwanted and non-consensual sexual contact.”

Darl Champion, the plaintiff’s lawyer, said his now 46-year-old client suppressed many of the memories from the alleged molestation, but they later resurfaced after he become an adult.

“It’s about accountability,” Champion said when asked why his client filed the suit.

Contact: awomack@macon.com