WASHINGTON
Q13 Fox
AUGUST 26, 2014, BY JAMES LYNCH
SEATTLE — “It means that he wanted to, they as a whole wanted to, close a chapter and sweep it under the rug,” child sexual abuse victim Kenny M. said Tuesday.
Kenny M. is one of three plaintiffs in a recently settled civil lawsuit against Seattle’s Tabernacle Missionary Baptist Church and its pastor, Robert Lee Manaway
At the center of the lawsuit — Timothy Dampier, a longtime leader, youth pastor and singer at Tabernacle.
Two years ago, Dampier was found guilty of sexually abusing 17 boys and was sentenced to 22 years in prison.
“We maintained in the lawsuit that Tabernacle knew or should have known that Dampier was a problem,” Kenny’s attorney, Bill Waechter, said.
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