OREGON
KATU
[with video]
PORTLAND, Ore. – An Oregon woman who has accused two former church leaders of sexual abuse is now suing the church for ignoring it for years.
The 29-year-old woman filed a civil lawsuit Wednesday, suing the Apostolic Faith Church for the abuse she claims happened more than 20 years ago. Neither of the men she named in the lawsuit were ever arrested or charged with a crime.
The woman, who agreed to tell her story if her name was not disclosed, said the Apostolic Faith Church ignored her repeated pleas for help. She said starting at the age of 4, the assistant minister and a day care worker at the church each sexually abused her.
“I really didn’t know that was wrong. I was too young to decipher,” she said Wednesday.
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