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Mike Johnson took custody of a 14 year old black boy through Young Life Ministries. YLM was sued for sexual abuse of children.

 
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Mike Johnson took custody of a 14 year old black boy through Young Life Ministries. YLM was sued for sexual abuse of children.
Young Life—one of the nation’s largest youth ministries, involving more than 400,000 youth and 55,000 staff and volunteers—is being accused of ignoring or covering up allegations of sexual misconduct.

Following a six-month investigation that included interviews with 35 people, including 10 alleged victims, last week Business Insider reported an extensive 7,300-word exposé. Their reporting found that, since 2000, at least eight Young Life staff members and volunteers have been charged criminally, following alleged sexual abuse of others involved with the ministry.

Alleged victims have recently filed four separate complaints with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC). A related lawsuit against Young Life, claiming the organization’s complicity in incidents of sexual abuse and racial discrimination, was settled out of court in September.

Recently, survivors have also launched a group on Instagram, called @MeTooYoungLife, which compiles stories of former Young Life staff and volunteers who allege abuse and misconduct.

Becca Wong, currently a senior at University of Michigan, filed one of the EEOC complaints. “I don’t think that the harm that Young Life causes is justified by the Christians they produce,” said Wong, as reported by Insider. “You can’t justify bringing youth to Christ when a percentage is sexually assaulted and left with no support system.”

Similarly, Erin Watts shared on Instagram how she was sexually harassed and bullied by a fellow staff member when serving at a Young Life chapter in La Grande, Oregon. Watts says she reported the incident to the ministry’s regional director. According to Watts, the response led by Young Life HR was “worse than the initial abuse,” and focused on rehabilitating the abuser rather than victim recovery.

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Re: Mike Johnson took custody of a 14 year old black boy through Young Life Ministries. YLM was sued for sexual abuse of children.
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Re: Mike Johnson took custody of a 14 year old black boy through Young Life Ministries. YLM was sued for sexual abuse of children.
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^^^^ Distrust, paranoia and hate conservatism is used around here as a political weapon.

I don't believe shit claimed here by people who refused to divulge their political position on issues or debate on political issues but exclusively attack conservatives.

That is a sure sign of an "agent of influence."

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Re: Mike Johnson took custody of a 14 year old black boy through Young Life Ministries. YLM was sued for sexual abuse of children.
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^^^^ Distrust, paranoia and hate conservatism is used around here as a political weapon.

I don't believe shit claimed here by people who refused to divulge their political position on issues or debate on political issues but exclusively attack conservatives.

That is a sure sign of an "agent of influence."


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One thing we all know is that pedos deflect for other pedos
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Re: Mike Johnson took custody of a 14 year old black boy through Young Life Ministries. YLM was sued for sexual abuse of children.
Additional potential victims and witnesses claiming sexual misconduct emanating from the Colorado Springs-headquartered Christian ministry Young Life are contacting Denver law firm Rathod / Mohamedbhai LLC for assistance, according to lead attorney Iris Halpern.

“A regular stream of survivors or witnesses are calling us, and the communications and context show there’s a national problem happening here, and the organization really needs to take harassment and discrimination seriously,” Halpern said Wednesday.

“It has policies and practices that don’t encourage survivors to come forward, and they don’t seem to address the heart of the problem — there’s a culture problem across the board.”

In a statement to The Gazette, Young Life contends: “The safety and well-being of all participants is a top priority for our organization, and abuse is not tolerated.”

Alleged victims from around the nation claim the 80-year-old organization, one of Colorado Springs' largest Christian ministries with revenue of $361 million in 2020, according to financial documents, for decades has covered up complaints of sexual assault and harassment involving members, staff and volunteers.

Victims who say they faced sexual assault, unwanted touching or unwanted sexual attention while working for or participating in Young Life activities began speaking out in an investigation published in October by Business Insider, a New York City-headquartered financial and business news website.

A lawsuit filed in federal court in Denver in June 2020 claimed Laureana Arellano was racially and sexually harassed at a Young Life summer camp in Colorado in 2019. The case reached a settlement agreement in September, with undisclosed terms, Halpern said.

Arellano, who lived in Colorado at the time, describes in the legal complaint how a coworker assaulted her by “shoving his hand down her apron and groping her genitalia.”

A manager told her it was “God’s plan,” court paperwork states.

Arellano says she was let go from her volunteer position in the kitchen of the camp after reporting that she witnessed male campers grope a female camper’s breasts.

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Re: Mike Johnson took custody of a 14 year old black boy through Young Life Ministries. YLM was sued for sexual abuse of children.
And this is the group that Mike Johnson procured a 14 year old black boy from. when he was single and 25 years old.
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Re: Mike Johnson took custody of a 14 year old black boy through Young Life Ministries. YLM was sued for sexual abuse of children.
Youth ministries shouldn't even exist. They literally get outed for molesting kids every single week in America alone.

If you take your kids to them, you should be accountable for their rape at this stage. All youth pastors should be treated with suspicion. That may seem unfair to the 'good ones' but it's beyond ridiculous now.
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Opie is actually on the sex offenders registry himself. I know this as a fact
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Re: Mike Johnson took custody of a 14 year old black boy through Young Life Ministries. YLM was sued for sexual abuse of children.
Good thing Mike got the kid out of there, isn't it?
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This is crazy
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Re: Mike Johnson took custody of a 14 year old black boy through Young Life Ministries. YLM was sued for sexual abuse of children.
The guy has a pedo mouth. If you were to look up "pedo mouth" it's quite possible there will be a picture of Mike Johnson for illustrative purposes.

What a nightmare I'm living.

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Good thing Mike got the kid out of there, isn't it?
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Right, they procured the boy.

Now you tell me, how does a single 25 year old man legally adopt a 14 year old boy?
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Opie is actually on the sex offenders registry himself. I know this as a fact
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One thing we all know is that pedos deflect for other pedos

And you're dong a really shitty job of it.
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Re: Mike Johnson took custody of a 14 year old black boy through Young Life Ministries. YLM was sued for sexual abuse of children.
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^^^^ Distrust, paranoia and hate conservatism is used around here as a political weapon.

I don't believe shit claimed here by people who refused to divulge their political position on issues or debate on political issues but exclusively attack conservatives.

That is a sure sign of an "agent of influence."


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One thing we all know is that pedos deflect for other pedos
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Or maybe you are K Mafia owned troll trying to get fucking Nancy Pelosi back in.

Hey you fat stupid, unemployed mock bitch.

Let's talk about replacement immigration.

Why do you want Americans replaced by unvetted foreign nationals?

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Re: Mike Johnson took custody of a 14 year old black boy through Young Life Ministries. YLM was sued for sexual abuse of children.
MORE EPSTEEEN CONNECTIONS .............ohyeah
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Re: Mike Johnson took custody of a 14 year old black boy through Young Life Ministries. YLM was sued for sexual abuse of children.
And this is the group that Mike Johnson procured a 14 year old black boy from. when he was single and 25 years old.
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Oh my. Mike Johnson must be a no good motherfucker.

However not as much of a mock bot motherfucker like you pushing open borders for the Democrats.

Do you not have any shame, sir? Your fucking pig wife needs to know what you do.

You fact TDS war pig motherfucker. Like to see you stepped on troll boy.

You never took a punch, fat fuck.
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MORE EPSTEEEN CONNECTIONS .............ohyeah
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Oh damn. You think Mike Johnson hangs with the Clintons?

Shades of Frazzeldip and Rachel Chandler.

Must be some reason customer list was never released. Who do you think was on the Epstein list?
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Re: Mike Johnson took custody of a 14 year old black boy through Young Life Ministries. YLM was sued for sexual abuse of children.
2021, eh?
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Re: Mike Johnson took custody of a 14 year old black boy through Young Life Ministries. YLM was sued for sexual abuse of children.
Young Life—one of the nation’s largest youth ministries, involving more than 400,000 youth and 55,000 staff and volunteers—is being accused of ignoring or covering up allegations of sexual misconduct.

Following a six-month investigation that included interviews with 35 people, including 10 alleged victims, last week Business Insider reported an extensive 7,300-word exposé. Their reporting found that, since 2000, at least eight Young Life staff members and volunteers have been charged criminally, following alleged sexual abuse of others involved with the ministry.

Alleged victims have recently filed four separate complaints with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC). A related lawsuit against Young Life, claiming the organization’s complicity in incidents of sexual abuse and racial discrimination, was settled out of court in September.

Recently, survivors have also launched a group on Instagram, called @MeTooYoungLife, which compiles stories of former Young Life staff and volunteers who allege abuse and misconduct.

Becca Wong, currently a senior at University of Michigan, filed one of the EEOC complaints. “I don’t think that the harm that Young Life causes is justified by the Christians they produce,” said Wong, as reported by Insider. “You can’t justify bringing youth to Christ when a percentage is sexually assaulted and left with no support system.”

Similarly, Erin Watts shared on Instagram how she was sexually harassed and bullied by a fellow staff member when serving at a Young Life chapter in La Grande, Oregon. Watts says she reported the incident to the ministry’s regional director. According to Watts, the response led by Young Life HR was “worse than the initial abuse,” and focused on rehabilitating the abuser rather than victim recovery.

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 Quoting: Anonymous Coward 83031592


I instinctively do not trust a southern man who does not speak southern.

However, 8 people charged out of sexual abuse out of 55,000 is a very small number, especially since apparently none of them have been convicted.

Furthermore, the allegations seem to also involve racial discrimination, sexual harassment, "homophobia," and bullying. Here's one: [link to www.instagram.com (secure)]

So as much as I am suspicious of Mike Johnson, there is no real scandal with Young Life Ministries.
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2021, eh?
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That's when these alleged child sex abuse crimes happened with them. The charges claim that they were covering it up so it could have been going on for years before this.
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Re: Mike Johnson took custody of a 14 year old black boy through Young Life Ministries. YLM was sued for sexual abuse of children.
Mike Johnson sideways Young underaged Boy RINOS
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Re: Mike Johnson took custody of a 14 year old black boy through Young Life Ministries. YLM was sued for sexual abuse of children.
I'd argue that adopting outside your race is the most racist thing you can do. What a piece of shit.
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Re: Mike Johnson took custody of a 14 year old black boy through Young Life Ministries. YLM was sued for sexual abuse of children.
 Quoting: Anonymous Coward 83031592


^^^^ Distrust, paranoia and hate conservatism is used around here as a political weapon.

I don't believe shit claimed here by people who refused to divulge their political position on issues or debate on political issues but exclusively attack conservatives.

That is a sure sign of an "agent of influence."


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Not to mention a tweet post by someone with some dumb flag in their name
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Re: Mike Johnson took custody of a 14 year old black boy through Young Life Ministries. YLM was sued for sexual abuse of children.
Good thing Mike got the kid out of there, isn't it?
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Right, they procured the boy.

Now you tell me, how does a single 25 year old man legally adopt a 14 year old boy?
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With Love?
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^^^^ Distrust, paranoia and hate conservatism is used around here as a political weapon.

I don't believe shit claimed here by people who refused to divulge their political position on issues or debate on political issues but exclusively attack conservatives.

That is a sure sign of an "agent of influence."


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100%
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Re: Mike Johnson took custody of a 14 year old black boy through Young Life Ministries. YLM was sued for sexual abuse of children.
Many years ago I was a regular donor to a shelter in NYC for run-away boys and girls. Covenant House. It was run by a Catholic priest.

Then it made the news one day. The priest was sexually abusing the kids and his sister was collecting and
spending the money.

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Re: Mike Johnson took custody of a 14 year old black boy through Young Life Ministries. YLM was sued for sexual abuse of children.
^^^^ Distrust, paranoia and hate conservatism is used around here as a political weapon.

I don't believe shit claimed here by people who refused to divulge their political position on issues or debate on political issues but exclusively attack conservatives.

That is a sure sign of an "agent of influence."


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Trigger the ZioCon^^


This israeli piece of ratshit is a cheerleader for the most degenerate swamprats in DC
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^^^^ Distrust, paranoia and hate conservatism is used around here as a political weapon.

I don't believe shit claimed here by people who refused to divulge their political position on issues or debate on political issues but exclusively attack conservatives.

That is a sure sign of an "agent of influence."


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100%
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lucky
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Re: Mike Johnson took custody of a 14 year old black boy through Young Life Ministries. YLM was sued for sexual abuse of children.
^^^^ Distrust, paranoia and hate conservatism is used around here as a political weapon.

I don't believe shit claimed here by people who refused to divulge their political position on issues or debate on political issues but exclusively attack conservatives.

That is a sure sign of an "agent of influence."


 Quoting: Anonymous Coward 80588207



Trigger the ZioCon^^


This israeli piece of ratshit is a cheerleader for the most degenerate swamprats in DC
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LMFAO!!! Israel is saved for last. You'd know that you fucking Nick Bitch if you were are real white national instead of using the J to shit on white conservative nationals.

What white nationalist shits on white nationals?

Answer that you phony piece of shit.

The answer is NONE.

Mf.
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Good thing Mike got the kid out of there, isn't it?
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This whole story coming out now looks like an attempt to turn people against Mike Johnson. Don’t know the facts, but what if he rescued this boy? Might as well have the 20 years ago girlfriend who doesn’t remember anything claim sexual assault. Come on…. Does anyone really believe this is anything but a campaign to destroy his reputation?
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Good thing Mike got the kid out of there, isn't it?
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This whole story coming out now looks like an attempt to turn people against Mike Johnson. Don’t know the facts, but what if he rescued this boy? Might as well have the 20 years ago girlfriend who doesn’t remember anything claim sexual assault. Come on…. Does anyone really believe this is anything but a campaign to destroy his reputation?
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Johnson refuses to discuss it.

His black “son” is now 40 years old and now living in anonymity.

Doesn’t it all seem a bit weird to you?





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