Lee Chatfield former speaker of the Michigan house has now been charged with sexual assault. Making this more sickening is that it occurred at a Christian School operated by his parents. Now the school is being accused of not reporting the abuse even though it's their legal responsibility and moral obligation. This is the Republican Party we've all come to know in Michigan.
This is the same idiot who twice tried to bring a gun onto a commercial flight.
.BURT LAKE—It’s been 17 years, but a former student at Northern Michigan Christian Academy said she’s still in disbelief about how school administrators reacted when she told them a teacher had sexually assaulted her when she was 13 on a mission trip to Texas.
They made no effort to get her counseling. Little effort to suss out the truth. And failed to alert authorities.
Instead, said the student, now 30, leaders of the church and school founded by pastor Rusty Chatfield summoned her and her parents to a meeting, where she was forced to sit face-to-face with her alleged assaulter and his wife.
There, she said, adults in the room pressured her to retract her accusations.
“They were constant on me,” said the woman, who Bridge Michigan is not naming at her request. “‘You’re lying.’ ‘There’s no way this would happen.’ ‘He would never do this.’ ‘He’s a good man of the church.’” She told Bridge Michigan the questioning seemed intended to suggest “I’m just a dumb 13-year-old kid that’s just trying to make stuff up.”
The former student is the second woman to go public with accusations she was sexually assaulted by a teacher while she was a teenage student at the Christian school and church complex near Burt Lake.
In December, another former student told Bridge that Rusty Chatfield’s son, Lee, began sexually assaulting her when she was a 15 or 16-year-old and Lee was a teacher at the school. That woman, now 26, said the assaults progressed to unwanted intercourse and continued for more than decade, even after she married Lee Chatfield’s younger brother, and Lee entered politics and rose to House speaker in the Michigan Legislature
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