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The Turner Report
A federal judge ordered Kanakuk Ministries and its CEO Joe White and a Texas family whose son was sexually abused by former Kanakuk camp director Pete Newman to hold mediation hearings sometime in the next 30 days.
In the order, which was filed today in U. S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas, Judge A. Joe Fish said the mediation was mandatory, but non-binding. If the two sides are unable to reach a settlement, the case will go to trial as scheduled in August 2013.
The father of the child says White,a nationally known Christan motivational speaker, encouraged him to send his son to Kanakuk Kamp in Branson following a speech at a Promise Keepers meeting in Irving, Texas.
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