Posted on 08/26/2021 7:16:30 PM PDT by Morgana
ROCKFORD, Ill. (WIFR) - Nearly two dozen allegations of sexual abuse from women who were connected with North Love Baptist Church, North Love Christian School, Reformers Unanimous and North Love Ministries, are coming to light.
“The end goal is to uproot the culture of abuse when we see as almost institutional at this place,” Nate Plautz said.
Plautz attended North Love Baptist Church every Sunday growing up and attended kindergarten through 12th grade there. But these days, Plautz is speaking against North Love as one of the co-founders of a private North Love group that supports survivors.
“We have about 80 members in this group of former North Love Christian School and North Love Baptist Church,” said Plautz. “Some (are) from the Reformers Unanimous program as well, but (these are) people who were either abused, have a family member who was abused or, frankly, they just want to support survivors.”
Plautz says there’s a large number of survivors to support, “At this point we’ve talked to 21 females who say they were sexually abused at North Love or one of the related ministries.”
“There’s no vindictiveness in what we are doing. There’s heartache. Such heartache,” said Kyra DeBerry, who attended North Love for the first 26 years of her life - graduating from both the high school and Bible College.
“I would love to be able to return to North Love some day and have it be a church that I feel safe at and feel safe bringing my children to. I don’t let my children go there,” she said.
DeBerry told 23 News that she co-founded the support group to help survivors.
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I think the church needs to get back to basics and teach how to love your fellow man and have healthy relationships with other people. There is too much of this going on that it can’t be helped by notice that some people are deprived of this knowledge.
This can’t be true! Only Catholics are capable of sexual deviance!
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I also think TLC needs to go back to being “The Learning Channel” and not showing us sugar coated mindless garbage that is known as “reality TV”.
At the very least bring back The Andy Griffith Show.
I agree. My favorite channels , History, TLC, Discovery, documentaries about history, space, science, health.
They had news stories tonight on our local news about North Love Church, one young lady’s account of being abused by one of the pastors, and how another one covered it up. Now I believe she’s sueing them.
I hope she wins.
Wanna bet there will be more lawsuits to come?
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