CHICAGO (IL)
New York Daily News
BY CAROL KURUVILLA / NEW YORK DAILY NEWS
FRIDAY, DECEMBER 20, 2013
A middle school teacher in Chicago has reportedly been hiding a sickening secret for nearly twenty years.
Two women are accusing teacher Cherie Carlson of using her status as a spiritual mentor in the 1990s to sexually abuse young girls at a church camp owned by Chicago’s North Side Gospel Center.
“She said she was showing me God’s love,” said one survivor, who spoke to NBC Chicago under the pseudonym “Jane Doe.”
Jane Doe has filed a lawsuit against Carlson, accusing her of forced oral sex and penetration between 1996 and 1997. The lawsuit also accuses the church of not doing enough to stop the abuse.
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