Settlement with the church
I while ago I made a post asking if I should sew the church me and my had attended. My son who was 5, he's 6 now who I expected to be safe in their child program was sodomized by one of the helper teens. This kid was 17 and had a history of being sexually aggressive. He already had charges pressed against him in the past for harming his step sister. The people at the church wanted to give him a chance because instead of therapy he was sent on mission trips and things like that. Since he did well on them they decided it made sense to put a sexually aggressive teenager with vulnerable children. I had to take him to the hospital because he needed medical treatment because of how bad it was.
Me and my husband decided to sue and not too long ago the church wanted to settle. They offered us a large settlement which most will be put away for when my son is 18. They covered they medical cost from the hospital. The reason we decided to settle is because we already had to go through trial with the 17 year old and my 5 year old had to keep saying what happened and it put him through a lot. If this could be over quicker than fine.
Since this has all start coming to an end I found out this church was on Facebook basically fishing for sympathy as because of how much the settlement is they are canceling on their missions trips, and can't do other fun things, and are making it sound like they can no longer offer as many services to help the needy because they don't have the funds. And my family is just being shit on on Facebook saying we should have sued the boy and kept the church out of it and that we are greedy and now being accused of lying to get money. We are moving back to our old city next month because honestly fuck everyone here right now. My husband already has past issues with a specific church and has told me he doesn't want our son stepping foot in a church again until he's old enough to decide for himself because this all brought back so many bad memories and he's very serious about it so I will respect his wishes. I just wanted to update everyone and please pray for us while we all work on healing
@Chantelle the 17 year old wasn't our kid. We don't know him and he's behind bars now. The 17 year old that these people knew was sexually aggressive sodomized my 5 year old and they knew he had a history of this which is why I sued the church. Idk how that means we suck. Because we want the church to be held accountable for knowingly putting a sexual predator around children?
Edit: When I said my family is being on I meant it as people on Facebook are shitting on my family(as in being hateful about us) for suing. I'm sorry. I understand how I wrote that weird. And my son is in therapy and he will get the settlement when he's 18.
Edit 2: Don't worry. Our insurance covers my son's therapy and he gets the money when he's 18 to do whatever he wants with.
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