A woman has filed a lawsuit alleging that her parents sexually abused her, as well as several boys who stayed at the Children s Home in Winston-Salem in the 1970s.
The woman s parents served as house parents at the Anna Haines Cottage, one of 12 living quarters at the Children s Home, which is now known as Crossnore School and Children s Home.Â
The lawsuit, filed by attorneys for Lisa Biggs-Fore, is the fifth one against Crossnore and the Western North Carolina Conference of the United Methodist Church in the past year. The lawsuit was filed in Mecklenburg Superior Court because the Western North Carolina Conference, which operated the Children s Home in the 1970s, has headquarters in Huntersville. The other lawsuits were filed by four men who said that former house parents Bruce Jackson Jack Biggs and his wife, Beatrice Hatcher Biggs, sexually assaulted them repeatedly when they were boys living at Haines Cottage in the 1970s.Â