A Christian ministry formerly known as New Tribes Mission has been hit with yet another lawsuit alleging sexual abuse by one of its missionaries and a failure by the group to handle the situation properly.
It’s the latest in a long line of claims against the religious organization now known as Ethnos360.
New Tribes Mission once aimed to reach and convert uncontacted, isolated tribes around the world. In countries like Brazil and the Philippines, missionaries set up boarding schools for their own children while the parents went on their trips. But the staffers at some of those schools—the “dorm dads”—were later accused of heinous crimes by the children. In one case, a man hid a seashell in his bathing suit and told the little girls to find it. That same man would tuck another girl into bed—in the same room as his own daughter—and sexually assault her before telling her it was their “secret.”
In a separate case, a woman said her own father molested her and her roommates for years.
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