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Are Protestant Ministries a New Market?
Lessons Learned from the Catholic Sexual Abuse Scandal
L. Martin Nussbaum, Esq.
Theresa Lynn Sidebotham, Esq.
http://www.rothgerber.com/files/10368_A ... Market.pdf


Is it about the children or is it about the money?

As the attack against Protestant ministries accelerates, some could face a threat of the magnitude that bankrupted eight Catholic dioceses and two Catholic religious orders.
http://www.rothgerber.com/files/10368_A ... Market.pdf
Nussbaum & Sidebotham


Is it about the children or about defending the helpless Protestant ministries which have harbored pedophiles and covered up the vicious crimes for decades?

A. Developing the Market. An informal alliance between plaintiffs' attorneys,
victims' groups, the mainstream press, and the film industry has birthed the church sexual
abuse reparations industry.
http://www.rothgerber.com/files/10368_A ... Market.pdf
Nussbaum & Sidebotham


The focus for Sidebotham is defending the "ministry".

"Ministry" can include adult men sexually abusing young girls entrusted to their care.

The "theory of repressed memories is junk science. The almost universal human
experience is that traumatic events are more memorable, not less."
http://www.rothgerber.com/files/10368_A ... Market.pdf
Nussbaum & Sidebotham

Some allegations of abuse in missionary boarding schools conflate actual abuse with
typical MK psychological issues or confuse the two.
http://www.rothgerber.com/files/10368_A ... Market.pdf
Nussbaum & Sidebotham

Many accusations are true, but a substantial percentage are exaggerated or untrue.
http://www.rothgerber.com/files/10368_A ... Market.pdf
Nussbaum & Sidebotham

Then the ministry should promulgate rules or church law as to when
confidences must be preserved and when and how they might be disclosed.
http://www.rothgerber.com/files/10368_A ... Market.pdf
Nussbaum & Sidebotham


Neither the alleged offender nor the victim’s parents are to be advised of the allegations unless there is a serious physical or emotional danger to the minor victim.
NTM Policy Manual on Abuse, 2002
Page 19


Pssst.....Sidebotham.....you've got a lot of catching up to do. You're not going to be working for Enron, Texaco, Penn State, the federal government and other assorted amateurs. You're going to be working for New Tribes Mission, a mission founded by Paul Fleming but guided by Scott Kodiak Ross, and dedicated to the proposition that sexual child abuse will not be allowed to destroy the ministry.

Most MKs have feelings of disorientation, dislocation, abandonment, and rejection, whether or not they attended a boarding school.
Nussbaum & Sidebotham
http://www.rothgerber.com/files/10368_A ... Market.pdf


Dear Ms. Sidebotham,

As I recover from my disorientation, could you help me understand the English idiom, "Like a fox guarding the henhouse?"

https://americaexplained.wordpress.com/ ... -henhouse/

http://religiouslawnetwork.com/news-inf ... nt-to-risk

"One of our mutual friends, Scott Ross, does training on kidnapping situations for organizations going into hostile areas."
Theresa Sidebotham


Who better to coordinate an investigation than a friend of the attorney of the mission?

Cleaning out the henhouse
May seem like nothing
Compared to the amount of fox poop-------