Alton, MO. - The five young men who were announced as missing yesterday have all been located, according to the Oregon County Sheriff's Office. These 5 juveniles were reported as missing during the early afternoon of July 10th, 2023. All five unidentified males had left the Master's Ranch Christian Academy at the same time, roughly
By Tessa Weinberg
The Missouri Independent
Thrown to the ground and restrained for hours. Forced to eat food they had thrown up. Silenced with duct-tape over their mouths. Beaten without immediate medical care.
Those were just some of instances of the horrific physical and sexual abuse former residents, parents and staff described witnessing in youth residential facilities within Missouri and across the country.
“I don’t know how a kid has not died in your state in these schools that exist,” said Colton Schrag, who spent years at Agape Boarding School in southwest Missouri, where dozens of former students have described experiencing abuse.
In Washington state lawsuit, Idaho sisters accuse then-church pastor of sexual abuse
Laura Bauer and Judy Thomas, Idaho Statesman
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BOISE (Idaho Statesman) – A man who runs three Christian reform schools in Missouri is the subject of a lawsuit in Washington state that accuses two churches where he was the pastor of failing to protect sisters who say he molested them.
The civil suit, filed in the Superior Court of the State of Washington, alleges that the churches knew their pastor, David Bosley, was grooming and then sexually abusing the three sisters for several years beginning as early as 1996 but did nothing to stop it or protect future victims.