GEORGIA
The Raw Story
DAVID EDWARDS
03 NOV 2015
A Republican political consultant from Georgia was sued this week for allegedly forcing boys to perform sex acts and videotaping it.
WSAV reported that attorneys for Matt Stanley filed a lawsuit against Jim Collins for abuse that occurred between from 1996 and 2002 while attending First Baptist Church Vidalia, where Collins was a youth volunteer.
Collins is accused of instructing boys to perform “individual sexual acts, both privately and in a group setting.” The lawsuit alleges that he recorded the boys performing the acts at least once while at church. The “highly inappropriate, sexualized physical contact with many of the boys” continued while Collins was chaperoning out-of-town trips, the lawsuit says.
Stanley said that he was abused “more than a hundred times” from the age of 11 until he was 18 years old.
At a press conference on Monday, attorney Jameson Carroll praised Stanley for coming forward to file the lawsuit.
“Matt could have sued under a pseudonym, he could have sued and asked this case be filed under seal but he didn’t, and I think it’s very brave,” Carroll noted.
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