CHESTERFIELD (VA)
WWBT NBC 12 News
June 10, 2019
By Kelly Avellino
Several religious organizations and church leaders face an $82 million lawsuit in a child sex abuse case involving eight boys, that stemmed in Colonial Heights and Chesterfield.
Attorneys with the law firm Breit Cantor says the boys were abused by a youth group leader at Immanuel Baptist Church between 2008 and 2015.
Added to the lawsuit on Monday were the following Baptist groups:
Southern Baptist Convention
Baptist General Association of Virginia
Petersburg Baptist Association
“They had the power to do more and to help protect these children and to warn these families of these abusers,” said attorney Kevin Biniazan, who represents the plaintiffs.
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