Updated: 1:08 AM EST January 22, 2021
TOLEDO, Ohio A victim who was groomed, trafficked and assaulted as a minor by three former Toledo pastors has filed a federal lawsuit against the pastors, their families, hotels, churches and a business for crimes related to child sex trafficking and negligence that allowed it to continue.
The lawsuit was filed by a Jane Doe, who was a minor during what the lawsuit describes as years of abuse by former pastors Anthony Haynes, Cordell Jenkins and Kenneth Butler.
Doe and her mother attended church at the Greater Life Christian Center, where Anthony Haynes served as a pastor. When he learned that Doe s father was absent in her life, Haynes spoke before his congregation and pledged to become a father figure to Doe.
Complaint alleges abuse to children placed into care of ex-pastor Anthony Haynes and lack of action from LCCS
The complaint lists multiple incidents of rape, child abuse, sexual battery, assault and other crimes allegedly carried out by those at the Haynes household. Author: Diane Woodring (WTOL) Updated: 4:38 PM EST December 24, 2020
TOLEDO, Ohio Two plaintiffs have filed a complaint against ex-pastor Anthony Haynes Sr., Lucas County Children Services and several other parties alleging they had been placed in the home of known child abusers and molesters and were subjected to rape, sexual battery, assault and numerous other instances of abuse.
The complaint reads that the two plaintiffs, RS and TH had been removed from custody of their mother by LCCS, Lucas County and the Commissioners (also named as defendants) and placed into the home of Anthony Haynes Sr., Alisa Haynes, Alexis Fortune and Markus Fortune around July 2, 2014.
Pastor Anthony Haynes appears in this dated photo. | Facebook
An Ohio pastor sentenced to life in prison last year for grooming a teenage girl to have sex with him and two other pastors is seeking compassionate release from prison by claiming his life is threatened by the coronavirus.
Pastor Anthony Haynes, the 41-year-old former leader of the Greater Life Christian Center in Toledo, who had insisted that he didn’t deserve life in prison for grooming his victim beginning when she was 14, filed two handwritten motions in U.S. District Court seeking compassionate release during the coronavirus pandemic, the Toledo Blade reported. One motion was filed on Oct. 30 and another was filed earlier this month, the publication reported.