CALIFORNIA
NBC Bay Area
The parents of an alleged victim of child sexual abuse at a San Jose church camp in 2007 are suing the church and a man facing 30 criminal charges of lewd acts with children at a daycare center.
The unnamed parents filed suit Tuesday in San Jose against the Baptist Church of San Jose, now known as the Church on the Hill, its business manager Elliot Sands and Keith Woodhouse, according to their attorney Robert Allard.
Woodhouse, 27, currently faces 30 counts of felony lewd and lascivious acts on children under 14 in a separate case involving kids he once supervised at the Trace Child Development Center, a daycare facility in San Jose, according to Deputy District Attorney Luis Ramos.
His trial on the charges starts on Monday in Santa Clara County Superior Court’s Hall of Justice in San Jose, Ramos said.
San Jose police arrested Woodhouse on Jan. 26, 2011, after he allegedly abused nine children aged 5 to 7 while employed at the Trace daycare facility from late summer 2010 to January 2011, Ramos said.
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