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Probably best if this comment is refered back to NTM, with a "please verify" note attached.

Perhaps the words "to meditation" should have been "on medication".

No seriously, a verification would be much appreciated.

SERIOUSLY NTM...YOU HAVE BEEN MASTERS AT SPINNING SOME DUMB SH** BUT THIS
TAKES THE CAKE! DO YOU SERIOUSLY THINK WE'RE THAT NIAEVE AFTER THE YEARS OF WHAT YOUR ORGANIZATION HAS PUT US THROUGH? AS AN ORGANIZATION YOU ARE SO TERRIBLY OUT OF TOUCH WITH THE REAL WORLD IT'S......FRIGHTENING, LAUGHABLE......DISUSTING.

As I said this is what I heard I am no lawyer I don't know the law. I heard that NTM could not go straight to mediation that they had to try to get the lawsuit dismissed first before they could go to mediation. I would be happy to have a lawyer weigh in on this and give some insight. If this is incorrect then that's fine I was just expressing my opinion and what I had heard.

Expecting that this just might disappear from the NTM website, I am copying it here.

This was posted on NTM's website on July 28, 2011:

HEARING SET ON ARITAO LAWSUIT

A hearing is scheduled for Aug. 30 on NTM USA’s motion to dismiss a lawsuit related to child abuse that took place at New Tribes Mission’s Aritao school in the Philippines in the 1980s and 1990s.

NTM recognizes that the impact of Les Emory’s assaults on 11 girls continues today. Our hearts go out to the victims and their families, and NTM USA reiterates its commitment to help.

The facts about NTM’s response to the abuse that took place 18 years ago are far different from the allegations of the lawsuit.

In 1993, one girl reported to her dorm parents that she had been sexually abused by Mr. Emory, her former dorm father at Aritao school in the Philippines.

Prior to this report, no one had reported any incidents of child abuse regarding Mr. Emory. NTM’s files from that period do not indicate that any reports or suspicions of child abuse were raised during his application process; in his four years of training, which was part of NTM’s process of screening candidates; or in his 15 years in the Philippines, nearly seven of them as a dorm father, before 1993.

Upon learning of the abuse, the leaders of NTM in the Philippines traveled to the school and interviewed Mr. Emory. He confessed to abusing the one girl and he was removed from the dorm. The leaders believed that the perpetrator would not face justice in the Philippines but would be brought to trial in the USA, and sent him back to the USA. He was also dismissed from membership in New Tribes Mission.

Mr. Emory’s home church and other supporting churches, and the missionaries of NTM of the Philippines, were informed that he was dismissed for child abuse.

An investigation was launched, which identified 11 victims. Mr. Emory eventually admitted abusing eight girls. Although he denied that he had raped any of the victims, the investigation produced sufficient evidence to believe he had raped three of the girls and abused all 11 girls.

When it came to light that there had been more than one victim and that Mr. Emory had lied to NTM Philippines leaders, his supporting churches and the missionaries of NTM of the Philippines were updated.

Leaders of NTM USA, based in Florida, called the Florida child abuse hotline to report the perpetrator, and kept a transcript of the call. They were told no report could be taken because the crime occurred outside the USA.

NTM USA leaders also called the counselor who was working with the perpetrator to ask if he had reported the perpetrator in Virginia, where the perpetrator was from and where he was being counseled. The counselor stated that he had called the Virginia hotline and he too was told that Virginia would not take a report because the crime occurred outside the USA.

New Tribes Mission USA offered counseling and other help to the victims and their families. NTM USA continues to desire to help with needs arising from this abuse.

Just anticipating that this piece might now be replaced with an official update stating, "NTM wanted to offer Jane Doe #7 money, they really did. And the only way they could do that was by trying to get her lawsuit dismissed - twice - and by dragging her through twelve agonizing months of back-and-forth wrangling by highly-paid attorneys. The end justifies the means. Jambalaya 7:16"

I expect 99% of tribers will accept this explanation. And that Larry will tearfully share this spirit-led path to reconciliation with all the good folks at the Refresher Course (no longer called Refresher Course) this summer.

"Oh, yeah, and that other thing? That other little thing, where we omitted the Philippines from the list of countries where MK abuse was reported to have taken place? That list that was included in official updates, e-mails and letters, with the Philippines excluded? Yeah, well, we actually did that too, and kept doing it for a whole year, just because what we really wanted all along was to go into mediation with Jane Doe #7. Yeah, really."

If NTM reported these people to the local authorities who said because the crimes were committed outside the US they were powerless to do anything about them....

Why didn't NTM send out urgent newsletters and documentation to every church,organisation and NTM supporter alerting them to these pedophiles, making it clear to everyone that these pedophiles were no longer going to be acknowledged or supported by NTM due to their crimes against MK's and national people?.

This should have been the first thing NTM did........but THEY DIDN'T.

Imagine how many supporters there are who feel just as sick/disgusted as us that they supported/paid for pedophiles sexual abuse trips around the world under the guise of "reaching lost tribes".....and they were never told the truth hence kept supporting these pedophiles on their return home and retirement from "service"?

I hate to bust anybody's bubble but I wonder if the churches really care? Where are their voices? Seems the loyalty to so called Christian organizations outweighs any abuse children have had to endure. Just my opinion, mind you. Full stop.

I was having those same thoughts, Pamela. I think you are right.

You are right.....most don't ever want to make the link between child sexual abuse and the church.
Sad and very immature...living in a fantasy world scenario and they don't want anyone to upset it.

They alerted people specific to Les Emory but they should have sent out information world wide on him and every other pedophile that came to light.