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By: KOB.com staff

An Albuquerque woman filed a lawsuit claiming a church leader sexually abused her as a child.

Monica Jaramillo said Michael Brunner, an elder at the Jehovah’s Witness church in Los Lunas, sexually abused her when she was just 8 years old.

Jaramillo, now 35, filed a lawsuit claiming other elders of the church knew about the incident but chose to do nothing.

The complaint also alleges Jaramillo’s mother was raped by Brunner.