CHICAGO (IL)
Courthouse News Service
By JACK BOUBOUSHIAN
CHICAGO (CN) – A prominent urban evangelist sexually abused boys in his ministry, spanking and sodomizing them in his home and giving them money for drugs from donations he’d collected from churches, five of his alleged victims claim in court.
Defendant Gordon McLean is an ordained clergyman who “has been an ‘evangelist’ for troubled teenagers who were members of inner city gangs in the Chicago and Northern Illinois area for decades,” according to the lawsuit in Cook County Court.
It adds: “McLean was employed for decades by Youth for Christ, a national organization which includes Campus Life, City Life, and Juvenile Justice Mission.”
McLean, however, is the only defendant.
From 1982 to 2008, McLean was director of the Juvenile Justice Ministry of Metro Chicago Youth for Christ, a position which “has given him liberal access to minors in various youth detention facilities in Northern Illinois,” according to the lawsuit.
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