Child Abuse Lawsuits

Description:

There has been a documented lawsuit or other credible evidence filed against the organization alleging child abuse from the organization or its leaders. Note: This tag does not mean that they were convicted of these charges or that the allegations were substantiated.

Cults:

Aggressive Christianity Missionary Training Corps - A Fundamentalist Christian sect that harbored and sexually abused children for years (1981 - present)
Alamo Christian Foundation - Run by a successful televangelist who trafficked children for sex and had an unhealthy obsession with his dead wife (1969 - present)
Christian Assemblies International cult - A fundamentalist church that was caught running a secret homosexual sex ring
The Circle (Nathan Chasing Horse) - A Dances with Wolves actor that was caught running a cult and arrested for various sexual crimes
The Family - An Australian sect that illegally took 14 children and severely abused them for several years (1964 - present)
Jehovah's Witnesses - A prominent denomination, which believes the end times have already begun
Knights of the Crystal Blade
New Light of God (Nueva Luz de Dios)
People of Praise
Plymouth Brethren Christian Church (Exclusive Brethren)
Twelve Tribes Communities
The Way International
Word of Faith Fellowship - A church in which the leader controls every aspect of member's lives and members are ritualistically abused as a form of exorcism (1979 - present)
The Work (Brother Julius) - A wealthy cult that chopped the leader into pieces, believing it was the will of God