Ungodly abuse: The lasting torment of the New Tribes missionary kids

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

New Tribes Mission settles child sex abuse lawsuit - Orlando Sentinel

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

Former missionary sentenced to 58 years for producing child porn

A former missionary who worked at Sanford based New Tribes Mission has been sentenced to 58 years in federal prison for producing child porn.

Warren Kennell worked as a missionary for the New Tribes Mission in Brazil for several years and police said he molested young girls and downloaded and shared child pornography.

Former missionary sentenced to 58 years for producing child porn