LITTLE ROCK (AR)
KATV [Little Rock, AR]
February 5, 2026
By Payton Dhooge
At the end of January, several civil lawsuits were filed against multiple churches in the city of Little Rock. In all three, the plaintiffs ask for a trial by jury.
The first, filed Jan. 26, claims a pastor at Defendant North Little Rock First Assembly of God Church sexually abused a 16-year-old girl in 1996. The girl, now a woman living in Texas, says the abuse continued for 20 years until she moved.
The accused pastor, Rodney Loy, served as executive pastor at Defendant Church in 1996 and now serves as the Senior Pastor of the church.
Court documents detail how Loy began grooming her by showing up at her after school events and part-time job. This escalated to her visiting his home multiple times a week and arranging private meetings in his church office. She says he began to sexually abuse her just a few months after she began attending the church.
According to court documents, Loy “systematically conditioned her to believe their ‘sexual relationship’ had been normal, godly, and her own fault—exploitation made possible by her history as a parental sex trafficking victim, which left her without a baseline for healthy relationships.”
Defendant Loy forced her to perform oral sex, performed oral sex on her, and raped her in multiple locations: his church office, the storage closet, nursery, Junior Super Church Room, church parking lot, and his home.
The court case also claims that Defendant Church failed to investigate warning signs on abuse, did not establish or enforce policies to protect minors, and failed to take any action to protect her.
Currently, the woman lives with complex PTSD, seizures, severe anxiety, depression, and neurological impairment that she says was caused by the years of abuse.
Read the complaint below: Please see the original article for the complaint
On Jan. 30, a civil case was filed against The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints (LDS) on behalf of an anonymous woman named J.H.
J.H. claims, starting from 4-years-old, that she endured sexual abuse for 12 years at the hands of her stepfather, G.S., who held a position of authority at the Pinnacle Mountain Ward LDS Church.
What she told authorities in 1993, leading to criminal charges for G.S., the church “implied she was responsible for her own victimization and stated he would wait to see how the criminal charges played out before taking any action.”
G.S. gave public testimony during a church service in which he asked for forgiveness from his family and daughter. J.H. was forced to sit through her abuser’s public performance of contrition, re-traumatizing her in front of the entire congregation.
G.S. pled guilty to sexual abuse of a minor in the third degree.
J.H. was eventually placed in foster care with another LDS family, and continued to attend the same church as her step-father. After about nine months in foster care, her mother left G.S. and J.H. was returned to her mother’s custody.
Read the complaint below: Please see the original article for the complaint
Another sexual assault case filed on Jan. 30 names the Our Lady of the Holy Souls (OLHS) Catholic School within the Diocese of Little Rock.
The plaintiff, D.O., claims that he was abused by Father Joseph Correnti and a staff member at OLHS School when he was 7-years-old.
According to court documents, Correnti is “on the Diocese of LR’s public ‘Clergy Disclosure List,’ described as ‘clergy for whom allegations of sexual abuse of a minor have been admitted, substantiated or determined or considered to be credible.'”
From 1975-1976, D.O. attended OLHS School and would attend Sunday mass. Court documents state that, “The sexually abusive encounters between Plaintiff and Fr. Correnti happened at OLHS under the direct supervision, employ, and control of the Defendants Diocese of Little Rock and OLHS.”
As a student at OLHS School, D.O. states that a staff member sexually abused him at the school.
Unable to deal with the guilt, shame, and trauma that he suffered as a result of the abuse from Fr. Correnti and the staff member, started acting out in school and abusing drugs at a young age.