TENNESSEE
WBBJ
[with video]
By Heather Mathis
By hmathis@wbbjtv.com
Story Created: May 21, 2014
MADISON COUNTY, Tenn. — A Bemis church is in legal trouble after a mother alleges it created a “foreseeable risk of harm” that led to the molestation of her young daughter.
According to the lawsuit, Chad Lutrell, a longtime member of First Baptist Church in Bemis, inappropriately touched the 10-year-old while volunteering at the church’s Vacation Bible School in June 2009.
The girl’s mother now says the church is to blame for her daughter’s abuse because it did not properly handle similar sexual assault claims made years prior.
WBBJ 7 Eyewitness News spoke to the family’s attorney, Adam Horowitz Wednesday. He tells us the family had no idea of Lutrell’s past when they sent their daughter to the church program.
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