When my co-reporter Andy Mannix and I investigated a tip last year about child sexual abuse in an Old Apostolic Lutheran Church community in Minnesota, we had to ask — was this just an isolated incident? Today, Andy and @jeremykohler.bsky.social have some answers: www.propublica.org/article/old-...
The church's culture of forgiving and forgetting sins has absolved abusers and silenced victims across the country.
Reporter Andy Mannix from the @startribune.com and I have been speaking to women all over the country about allegations of child sexual abuse in the Old Apostolic Lutheran Church. This is the story of how one perpetrator in Minnesota escaped consequences for years: www.propublica.org/article/sexu...
In Minnesota, leaders of an Old Apostolic Lutheran Church community enabled a child abuser by telling his victims that once the sins were “washed away in the blood of reconciliation,” they could never...
