MISSISSIPPI
The Times-Picayune
By The Associated Press
on August 31
HERNANDO, Miss. — A Mississippi man has filed a complaint alleging that a male teacher at a church-run school sexually abused him in an attempt to change his sexual orientation from homosexuality.
Jeff White, 32, said he realized he had a duty to stand up against people who harmed him in the 1990s because such efforts still hurt others.
The Washington Blade reported that White told it in an interview that a teacher at Bethel Baptist School in Walls when he was a student there repeatedly forced him to have oral and anal sex for three years. White said the teacher scheduled an appointment each Wednesday for the sexual abuse to occur.
His parents enrolled him in the school when he was 14 and in the seventh grade.
“He would rape me because I was gay and because it would make me hate men and make me change,” White said.
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