The crimes took place nearly 30 years ago in a village in Africa. Now
a woman who says she was sexually abused repeatedly by a "dorm dad" in a
Christian boarding school that was run by New Tribes Mission has
reached a financial settlement with the group.
Brett Bressler, the
woman's attorney, and David Doyle, New Tribes' attorney, confirmed that
the suit had recently been settled but said a confidentiality agreement
kept them from discussing it.
The settlement is part of a sex scandal that came to light in a 2010
report that faulted the Sanford-based missionary group, one of the
largest in the world, for covering up two dozen cases of child sexual
abuse at its boarding school in Fanda, Senegal, in the 1980s and '90s.
The
victims were the children of New Tribes missionaries who were separated
from their families and sent to a mission-run boarding school so that
both their mothers and fathers could work full time, spreading the
Gospel.
New Tribes Mission settles child sex abuse lawsuit - Orlando Sentinel
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