OREGON
News-Register
A 12-year-old girl and her mother are suing the Nazarene Church on the Hill in McMinnville, alleging church employees failed to act when the girl told them she was being abused by her biological father.
According to the $5.2 million lawsuit filed in Multnomah County Circuit Court on May 23, the girl was in kindergarten through third grade when she told teachers, aides, counselors and clergy at the church about the abuse.
The accused molester is the girl’s biological father, who allegedly gave his daughter herpes as a result of his assaults, managed to flee before the allegations were brought to light, said Randall Vogt, the Portland attorney representing the plaintiffs. “No criminal charges were ever brought, and he dissappared,” he said. “We have no notion of where he is.”
Vogt said church employees were required under Oregon law to report what the girl told them to legal authorities and church officials. Even the girl’s parents were not told, he said.
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