Thread by @DavidAFrench

Here’s the latest in the Kanakuk saga. Not only did the huge, influential Christian camp ignore red flags it had a serial child sex abuser in its midst, we have evidence leadership blocked an effort to fire that predator six years before he was caught /1: thedispatch.com/p/new-evidence…

This employee abused dozens of boys (his prosecutor speculated it might be hundreds) AFTER he was caught four-wheeling, playing basketball, and swimming nude with boys. He hosted “hot tub Bible studies.” Now employees have come forward to say his supervisor tried to fire him. /2

The supervisor says (and his account is corroborated) that the camp said no. Instead, the camp promoted the predator and hyped him as “the most thorough relationship builder with kids in Kanakuk history.” /3

There has never been a full and transparent accounting of what happened. Confidential settlements have bought silence. The camp even sought to sanction a victim’s family that refused to sign a non-disparagement agreement. /4 frenchpress.thedispatch.com/p/kanakuk-kamp…

It’s past time for transparency. There needs to be an independent investigation of how a super-predator operated for a decade. It shouldn’t take outside reporting to uncover the truth, piece-by-piece. But @NancyAFrench has done exactly that, and her reporting continues. /end.