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Judi Lynn

(160,527 posts)
Thu Feb 20, 2014, 04:20 PM Feb 2014

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.”


Read more: http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/02/20/lawsuit-calif-christian-missions-tortured-mentally-disabled-with-bible-punishments/

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Lawsuit: Calif. Christian missions tortured mentally disabled with Bible ‘punishments’ (Original Post) Judi Lynn Feb 2014 OP
a·ga·pe FiveGoodMen Feb 2014 #1
Pure evil. What disgusting human beings. So much for caring for WestSeattle2 Feb 2014 #2

FiveGoodMen

(20,018 posts)
1. a·ga·pe
Thu Feb 20, 2014, 05:38 PM
Feb 2014

noun

1. the love of God or Christ for humankind.
2. the love of Christians for other persons, corresponding to the love of God for humankind.
3. unselfish love of one person for another without sexual implications; brotherly love.
4. love feast ( defs 1, 2 ) .

i·ro·ny, noun

1. the use of words to convey a meaning that is the opposite of its literal meaning: the irony of her reply, “How nice!” when I said I had to work all weekend.

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