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Daily Mail (UK)
‘It’s a cesspool of sex’: Women sue director of megachurch-affiliated rehab on claims he routinely groped, harassed and even laid on top of them as they slept
By JOSHUA GARDNER and ASSOCIATED PRESS
Six women filed suit against San Diego’s The Rock Church on Thursday, saying they were sexually harassed at a drug and alcohol recovery program associated with the megachurch.
The lawsuit says the Rock offered counseling and housing to women in a program led by David Powers, who is accused of repeatedly fondling residents and making lewd sexual advances and laying atop at least one of the recovering drug addicts as she slept.
‘They’ve gone there to seek healing and what they get is a sex fest,’ attorney Irwin Zalkin, who’s helping represent the women, told NBC San Diego. ‘I mean, that’s really what this place is — it’s a cesspool of sex.’
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