Posted on 04/09/2022 12:15:54 AM PDT by Morgana
CEDAR COUNTY, Mo. (KY3) - Several more former students of a boy’s Christian boarding school in Cedar County are filing lawsuits.
The group claims a wide range of abuse, from starvation to physical and emotional abuse.
”For nearly three decades, students at Agape Boarding School have experienced emotional, mental, physical and sexual abuse,” the group’s attorney, Ryan Frazier, said in a statement to KY3 on Friday. “Today, we filed petitions in Cedar County for nine of those victims, to pursue justice for the trauma they endured and to have their voices heard.”
Robert Bucklin went to the school from age 13 to 18. During that time, Bucklin said he suffered the same abuse. He previously filed a lawsuit against the boarding school.
“What happened to us is not our fault, it’s not our shame,” Bucklin said. “It’s something they have to live with forever, knowing that they hurt little children.”
Bucklin described some of his painful experiences at Agape.
“You’re just screaming for help,” he said. “You can literally hear the blood curdling screams from the kids downstairs in the restraining room.”
During his time at Agape, Bucklin said he wrote letters home.
”There’s letters I wrote home and in my file that talk about how I wish I was dead,” Bucklin said. “And that dead animals get treated better than we did. [I] talk about physical abuse, sexual abuse.”
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Yikes. Another article refers to the place as a “reform school,” and says more about abuse:
https://www.news-leader.com/story/news/local/ozarks/2022/03/11/accuser-takes-stand-agape-boarding-school-dr-smock-case/9424476002/
yes I’ve posted about this school in the past they have had a bad track record. Over Christmas their doctor was on the run for sexually abusing kids. He was caught in Arkansas, and is now back in Missouri awaiting trail.
From what I’ve read about him he’s a real werido. The dude has a “castle” in Missouri that he calls Cinderella’s Palace and he adopted boys that would sleep in the bed with him. Just shit like Michael Jackson.
It will not be many years before there will be the lawsuits for the ‘grooming’ and the ‘trans’ forming!
Parents thought the school’s name was the Greek word meaning “the love of God for man and of man for God”, but instead it was the Saxon word agape, as in “mouths agape”.
With the word “agape” in the title, what could go wrong?
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