TENNESSEE
The Raw Story
DAVID EDWARDS
01 DEC 2015
A family filed a lawsuit this week against a church in Brentwood, Tennessee for allegedly covering up the rape of their 3-year-old child.
The lawsuit, which was obtained by WTVF, indicates that the family left their 3-year-old-boy in the care of the church’s Children’s Ministry on the Sunday of August 24, 2014.
When the boy said that he did not want to go back to church the next week, the family discovered that a teenage volunteer had raped the child in one of the church’s bathrooms.
The family explained in the lawsuit that they confronted church leaders, who initially claimed that the child was lying about the incident.
The church later “urged the [family] not to pursue criminal charges against the perpetrator,” the lawsuit stated.
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