TENNESSEE
Tennessean
Collin Czarnecki, cczarnecki@tennessean.com
After a family filed a $37.5 million lawsuit against a Brentwood church for negligence in the sexual assault of their 3-year-old son, the church has issued a response.
According to a lawsuit filed Monday, the family’s son was raped by a male teenage volunteer in a bathroom of Fellowship Bible Church of Williamson County during church on Aug. 24, 2014. The teenager pleaded guilty to aggravated sexual battery.
The lawsuit alleges the church urged the family to not pursue charges and asked them to attend another church campus.
The lawsuit 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.”
But in a statement to its congregation, Fellowship Bible Church Pastor Bill Wellons wrote that those allegations are false.
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