CHICAGO (IL)
Raw Story
By Travis Gettys
Monday, October 21, 2013
A well-known urban evangelist spanked and sodomized boys in his ministry, according to five of his alleged victims.
They have filed a lawsuit against Gordon McLean, who worked with troubled teenagers for decades through an evangelical outreach program for gang members, seeking $50,000 in civil damages.
McLean served as director of Juvenile Justice Ministry of Metro Chicago Youth for Christ and as an auxiliary chaplain for the Cook County sheriff’s office, which gave him access to children.
The suit claims McLean would ask the young gang members if they’d been bad boys, invite them to his house and place cologne on their hands, then spank their bare buttocks as they laid across his lap and then engage in sex acts with the teens.
McLean also gave the boys money for drugs, kept them overnight on Saturday nights and took them to a church with him on Sunday mornings, according to the lawsuit.
“(McLean would introduce) the ‘bad boy’ to the suburban church audience as a successful convert to the Lord Jesus Christ who had come to saving faith in the Lord through McLean’s ministry efforts,” the suit claims.
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