Former staffers at Missouri Christian boarding school face civil lawsuit [Video]

Yet another civil lawsuit filed Wednesday against a Missouri Christian boarding school by a former student accuses staffers of forced child labor, physical abuse and tactics aimed at hiding mistreatment from authorities. The lawsuit, filed in Missouri’s Western U.S. District Court, alleges fraud and negligence by five former employees of the now-closed Agape Boarding School. More than a dozen other former students have settled lawsuits alleging they were abused at the southwest Missouri school.When it shut down in 2023, 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. Several people affiliated with those schools are facing criminal charges.Advocates for victims of abuse at Missouri boarding schools in May and again on Wednesday urged the state’s attorney general to …