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	Church to Pay Parents for Teen's Abuse ABC 13 July 4, 2008 http://abclocal.go.com/ktrk/story?section=news/state&id=6228411 EDINBURG, TX - A Hidalgo County jury is awarding $500,000 to the parents of a teenager who was sexually assaulted by a Pharr church pastor. The Monitor in McAllen reports the teenagers' parents today won the award in a lawsuit they filed against Trinity Worship Center. They sued for pain and suffering they said they experienced when their son, who was then 14, was sexually abused by then-pastor Robert Dale Franklin. Franklin - who's 42 - is in prison for sexually assaulting the boy. Attorneys said Franklin's background contained multiple warning signs that he was abusing young men in the parishes where he worked.
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