Mother files wrongful death lawsuit against now-closed Christian boarding school in Missouri

FILE - Agape Boarding School in Stockton, Mo., is pictured in December 2020. A mother is suing the shuttered Christian boarding school in Missouri, blaming her son’s death on the gang rape and other abuse he endured there. The school has been subjected to a wave of litigation as a series of abuse allegations emerged, but the case filed this month and amended Monday, Oct. 23, 2023, in federal court is believed to be the first wrongful death suit.

He grew so despondent that he wrote a suicide note. But heart and kidney failure were what claimed his life in February 2022.Mother of slain Alabama woman files suit against Hornets’ Brandon Miller, 2 others“The saddest part of his case is he finally found a cause to live when the circumstances of his choices ended up killing him,” said attorney Rebecca Randles. “It is one of those completely devastatingly sad situations.”that transported students there, and Cedar County Sheriff James McCrary.

Instead of the counseling his parents were promised, the school was “a concentration camp or torture colony cloaked in the guise of religion,” the suit said. Upon arriving, his head was shaved. And when he tried to write to his family about what was happening, he was punished. The maltreatment culminated in him being gang raped, the suit said.

“The steroids, testosterone, high blood pressure and anxiety coupled with the drug addiction were the mechanism of his death; the cause of his death was the abuse at Agape,” the suit said., it was the fourth and last unlicensed Christian boarding school to close in Cedar County since September 2020. The school’s former director, Bryan Clemensen, said the school, whose enrollment had tumbled, closed because it did not have the funding to continue.

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