TENNESSEE
Tennessean
Collin Czarnecki, cczarnecki@tennessean.com December 1, 2015
A local family has filed a lawsuit against a Brentwood church after their 3-year-old was sexually assaulted by a church volunteer.
According to a lawsuit filed Monday, the family’s 3-year-old son was raped by a male teenage volunteer in a bathroom of Fellowship Bible Church of Williamson County during church on August 24, 2014. The teenager pleaded guilty to aggravated sexual battery.
The family left their son at the Children’s Ministry while worshiping, but they weren’t aware of the sexual assault until the following weekend.
According to the lawsuit, the church allegedly urged the family to not pursue charges and asked them to attend another church campus.
It further states that the church “sought to hide the truth about the perpetrator pedophile and about the rape of (the 3-year-old) from other families.”
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