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	New Victims Say Former Pastor Sexually Abused Them at Bell Garden’s San Pedro Y Pablo Lutheran Church Jeff Anderson & Associates June 22, 2011 http://www.bishop-accountability.org/AbuseTracker/New%20victims%20say%20former%20pastor%20sexually%20abused%20%20them%20at%20Bell%20Garden%E2%80%99s%20San%20Pedro%20Y%20Pablo%20Lutheran%20Church [Espanol] [Complaint 1] [Complaint 2] (Los Angeles, CA) Three victims of child sexual abuse committed by Lutheran Pastor Frank Brundige filed lawsuits today detailing abuse committed by Brundige from 1990 until 2007 when he was arrested and convicted of molesting children. The lawsuits describe multiple complaints and warnings about Brundige abusing children that were ignored by Lutheran Church officials. The lawsuits also detail concerted efforts engaged in by Lutheran Church officials to silence victims and witnesses. Frank Brundige was the Pastor from 1989 until 2007 of Iglesia Luterana San Pedro Y Pablo, an immigrant Hispanic Lutheran Church in Bell Gardens. Eight children, now young men, have filed civil lawsuits alleging Pastor Frank Brundige sexually molested them as children starting almost immediately after he arrived at the Bell Gardens church. Anthony DeMarco, a Los Angeles-based attorney affiliated with Jeff Anderson & Associates who are attorneys for the plaintiffs, pointed out that church officials received complaints of Pastor Frank Brundige's abuse of a child as early as 1991, and said “at one point when the church officials were informed that Brundige abused the boy, a church supervisor convened a meeting and convinced the boy’s parents to accept Brundige’s apology and take no further action. In 1995, when a church board member actually witnessed Brundige fondle the genitals of a child, no report was made, no investigation followed, and no action was taken against the pastor. And, in 2007, when police were investigating claims of sexual abuse of children by Pastor Brundige, church officials visited the homes of boys who had been abused and asked that they recant the abuse in order to protect both Brundige and the church.”
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