KANSAS
Christian Today
Carey Lodge CHRISTIAN TODAY JOURNALIST 01 July 2016
A Kansas church is asking for the identity of two under-age girls who were the victims of sexual assault at a holiday Bible school to be revealed by the court.
Westside Family Church of Lenexa has accused the girls’ family of a “Pearl Harbor-styled barrage of negative publicity,” Baptist News Global reports, after the family “tactically decided to ‘draw fist blood’ on the issue publicly” by leaking the story to the press before notifying the church it was being sued.
The church has therefore called on the case to proceed without the use of pseudonymns to protect the teenagers’ identities.
“Ordinarily, defense counsel would stipulate permission to use of an alias in a case involving a minor claiming sexual abuse. Sadly, the minors’ parents and attorneys have chosen a different path,” the church said.
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