Lawsuit: Calif. Christian missions tortured mentally disabled with Bible ‘punishments’
Source: Raw Story
Lawsuit: Calif. Christian missions tortured mentally disabled with Bible punishments
By David Edwards
Thursday, February 20, 2014 11:01 EST
Los Angeles City Attorney Mike Feuer has filed a lawsuit against two unlicensed Christian mission homes for effectively torturing mentally disabled people if they refused to attend religious services, and forcing them to live in filthy conditions.
According to KNBC, Agape Mission House and Agape Home Church are facing a civil enforcement action for subjecting mentally disabled residents to deplorable living conditions.
One toilet and one shower for over 50 individuals and filth, dirt, overcrowding, severe overcrowding, Asst. LA City Attorney Jose Egurbide told the station.
You sleep on a mattresses that are paper thin, Feuer said. The kind of conditions in which you or I would never want one of our loved ones to live in. And yet these are the conditions that we allege the people at this facility had been enduring for months and sometimes for years.
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