VIRGINIA
Potomac News
By ROB SEAL
rseal@potomacnews.com
Thursday, December 29, 2005
A $10 million dollar sexual assault lawsuit filed against several Baptist church organizations was diminished in scope Wednesday by a Circuit Court judge.
The lawsuit stems from July 2004, when teenage camp counselors abused a 10-year-old boy during a weeklong stay at the Northern Virginia Baptist Youth Camp in Gainesville.
The boy's mother filed a $10 million lawsuit against the camp itself, two counselors and the regional Baptist groups that run the camp.
The suit named several Baptist organizations that contribute members to the camp's board of directors: the Northern Virginia Baptist Association, the Northern Virginia Baptist Center, the Baptist's Women's Association of Northern Virginia and the Northern Virginia Sunday School and Baptist Training Union Convention.