THE PHILIPPINES
NBC News
February 7, 2019
By Kate Snow, Aliza Nadi and Rich Schapiro
The accused sexual predators are living freely in communities around the U.S., their sordid pasts known only to a few.
When the clock struck 8 p.m. inside the Aritao boarding school in the Philippines, the children would gather in a common area for their evening routine.
A nightly devotional. A Bible reading. Prayers.
The children were the sons and daughters of American evangelical missionaries. The sessions were led by mission caretakers known as the “dorm dad” and “dorm mom.”
When the prayers were over, the boys and girls as young as 6 would march off to bed. Sometimes, the dorm dad would trail behind the girls, slip into their rooms and do ungodly things to them in the dead of night.
He would put “his hands under the covers and would touch me,” recalled Joy Drake, who says the sexual abuse started when she was 9.
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