Iowa deputies extracted nearly 90 children from a Bible study camp last week and placed them in protective custody in response to reports of child abuse and endangerment, a state sheriff’s office announced Monday.
Victor Bawi, the son of a minister at the church, said that no camp leaders have been arrested thus far. The family that runs the program denied allegations of child abuse or endangerment, though police are continuing an investigation into human trafficking.
This is actually pretty accurate. Not sure why you got to down vote.
I read this article and another one that someone linked in the comments and it really didn’t say anything at all.
I’ll be up front and say that I have very serious problems with camps like this in general. However, the accusations seem serious and it would have been helpful if the article actually detailed them. Instead it said:
The article itself had hyperlinks to what seemed to be unrelated abusers. I’m just more confused.
What happened? Were children harmed? Will the abusers, if they exist, be held to justice?
Again, I have serious issues with programs like these in general. I might argue that abuse is indeed happening, but not in the way this article implies. unfortunately, the abuse that I believe is certainly happening is not kind of thing that would prevail in court in a country that doesn’t seem to have a legal problem with things like conversion therapy.