Posted on 11/12/2022 2:25:38 PM PST by Morgana
Editor’s note: this story has been updated to clarify the appeals court order, which halts any action in the case until further notice.
The Missouri Court of Appeals has ordered a Cedar County judge to halt all further action in the Agape Boarding School case until it issues a final decision on a recent motion.
“You are directed to refrain from taking further action,” the appellate court wrote in a ruling that was issued Wednesday, “ ... until further order of this court.”
In what is called a preliminary writ of prohibition, the appellate court said the only action Associate Judge Thomas Pyle could take in the case is to vacate his Oct. 12 order that the state appoint a guardian ad litem for each Agape student and to include all the parents as parties to the AG’s petition to shut down the school. Late last month there were 35 students remaining at the Christian boarding school near Stockton.
The appellate court told Pyle to wait for its subsequent order. It gave the judge until Nov. 14 to file a response to the attorney general’s request that his order be rescinded.
Missouri Attorney General Eric Schmitt and the state Department of Social Services have been trying to close the school since Sept. 7, when they filed a motion for “injunctive relief,” saying the safety of students was in jeopardy.
Many men who attended Agape in their youth have told The Star over the past two years that they were subjected to physical restraints, extreme workouts, long days of manual labor, and food and water withheld as punishment. And, they said, former students endured constant berating and mind games, and some were physically and sexually abused by staff and other youth.
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Would like a little back story on this
I’ve been posting on this school for about a year now. Just look up keywords “agapebordingschool” or “agape”.
Or here starting with the first I posed:
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3989292/posts
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/4024961/posts
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/4025017/posts
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/4053546/posts
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/4073043/posts
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/4073481/posts
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/4091280/posts
I like what one FReeper said about the school. They got the word wrong, instead of the Greek usage of “Agape” it should be the Anglo Saxon and “Mouths Agape”
I misspelled that it should be keyword “agapeboardingschool”
either way they are Mouths Agape
This is a. nightmare.. why are they still open ??
But the regulars schools are free to continue on, indoctrinating kids with perversion, racism, and America hate. Good that this school closed... wish the others would too.
It’s not closed yet and survivors are still fighting to close it.
The Missouri AG and a local judge won’t close it. The law was passed in that state just to control schools like this but they won’t act on it.
All the bad press has caused this school to loose boys and not gain any more. The month of September is usually their largest enrollment period and this year they had 0 application plus now parents are pulling kids from there.
They are down to just 35 students when in the past they could have as much as 300-500.
5 staff members have been charged with abuse that is not counting the “good doctor” who was arrested after he went on the lam last December.
If this had been a public school, arrests would have been made and it would have been all over the media. Parents would sue the school system and taxpayers would shell it up. If it had been as bad as Agape you can just bet the union could not save a lot of higher ups from getting fired too.
Still though with the public schools the abusers would do jail time. The local judge in this case only charged 5 with abuse when more names were brought to him. Total lack of integrity.
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