(The Christian Post) The Eastern Pennsylvania Mennonite Church and associated entities have been accused in a federal lawsuit of exploiting and abusing Mennonite boys and young men through a fictitious program they claimed would reform “troubled boys” but caused them physical and mental harm instead.
The Eastern Pennsylvania Mennonite Church is a regional Conservative Mennonite group with several dozen congregations and several thousand adherents in Pennsylvania and surrounding states.
The lawsuit filed earlier this month alleges that through their actions, the church, its mission, the Liberty Ridge Farm and farm owner Nelson Martin violated the federal Trafficking Victims Protection Act, the Racketeering in Corrupt Organizations Act and a Pennsylvania human trafficking law.