The Aritao school was run by a Florida-based group formerly
known as New Tribes Mission, one of the largest Christian missionary
organizations in the world.
New Tribes missionaries have
operated in more than a dozen countries, spreading the gospel in some of
the most remote corners of the globe.
Devoting one's
life to God in this way requires a particular sacrifice. Missionary
parents would often go several weeks in the field without seeing their
young children, leaving them in the care of New Tribes boarding schools
in places like the Philippines, Senegal and Brazil.
Some of the schools, former students say, employed missionaries who were like wolves in sheep's clothing.
In interviews with NBC News, more than a half-dozen women said they were sexually abused by New Tribes staffers while attending the mission schools in the 1980s and '90s.
Ungodly abuse: The lasting torment of the New Tribes missionary kids
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