Posted on 06/23/2022 7:09:03 PM PDT by Morgana
A newly surfaced video that shows what many describe as abuse of a boy at Agape Boarding School in the late 1990s has renewed calls to close the school.
In the footage, a man who former students say is Frank Burton — a long-time pastor at the Cedar County school — can be seen forcing a boy wearing a bathrobe to run alongside him around the perimeter of an outdoor volleyball court, which also served as the school’s boot camp area. It’s been common practice at the school to make boys wear robes if they were on suicide watch or had tried to run away.
At one point, the boy falls, and the man pulls him back up. As they continue running, the video shows the man kick the boy from behind at least twice. Then the man says to a staff member, “Take him to the office. Write him up.”
Former students say Burton was the school’s principal at the time. Burton is an officer on the board of directors for Agape Baptist Church, which oversees the school, according to its most recent filing with the Missouri Secretary of State.
“This video just solidifies our stories of abuse that we went through,” said Colton Schrag, of New Mexico, who attended Agape from 2006 to 2010 and testified at a legislative hearing last year on bills to implement more oversight on religious boarding schools. “We have been telling our stories for two years, and now have some proof to back our claims.”
The Star has investigated Agape and other boarding schools in southern Missouri since late summer 2020. Many men who attended Agape in their youth said they were subjected to physical restraints, extreme workouts, long days of manual labor, and food and water withheld as punishment.
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