MICHIGAN
WOOD
Ken Kolker and 24 Hour News 8 web staff
Published: August 8, 2016
WYOMING, Mich. (WOOD) — Kim James said she was a 12-year-old missionary kid — an MK, as they were called — when the sexual abuse started at a Baptist mission camp in Bangladesh.
“I am out to tell the world after all these years,” James told Target 8, speaking publicly about the allegations for the first time. “The truth must be known.”
Her alleged molester, Dr. Donn Ketcham, came from a church in the city of Wyoming. Then 58, he was a surgeon, family doctor and religious leader at the mission compound in a Bangladesh jungle.
He has admitted to “perverted sin” with her.
James was the first woman to come forward with allegations of sexual assault against the missionary doctor in 1989. Twenty-two more women would follow her example. Many of them call James a hero.
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