Three civil suits accuse Little Rock churches of child sex abuse, demanding jury trials
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LITTLE ROCK (KATV) — At the end of January, several civil lawsuits were filed against multiple churches in the city of Little Rock. In all three, the plaintiffs ask for a trial by jury.
The first, filed Jan. 26, claims a pastor at Defendant North Little Rock First Assembly of God Church sexually abused a 16-year-old girl in 1996. The girl, now a woman living in Texas, says the abuse continued for 20 years until she moved.
The accused pastor, Rodney Loy, served as executive pastor at Defendant Church in 1996 and now serves as the Senior Pastor of the church.
Court documents detail how Loy began grooming her by showing up at her after school events and part-time job. This escalated to her visiting his home multiple times a week and arranging private meetings in his church office. She says he began to sexually abuse her just a few months after she began attending the church.
According to court documents, Loy “systematically conditioned her to believe their ‘sexual relationship’ had been normal, godly, and her own fault—exploitation made possible by her history as a parental sex trafficking victim, which left her without a baseline for healthy relationships.”
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