www.christianpost.com By Leonardo Blair
Attorneys for Harvest Christian Fellowship and its founder, Greg Laurie, are seeking to dismiss 22 federal lawsuits filed by former wards of the California megachurch’s now-defunct children’s homes in Romania. The claimants allege they were sexually abused and trafficked by former pastor Paul Havsgaard, who has dismissed the allegations as “ugly lies.”
“I am angry because the lawsuit states these accusations as if they are facts,” Havsgaard wrote in a Jan. 20 letter to U.S. District Court Judge Sunshine S. Sykes in response to the lawsuits, adding he could not afford a lawyer.
“They are not. Everything I am accused of in these lawsuits are blatant, ugly lies manufactured for one purpose, to achieve a payout. If things were as bad as these accusations claim, each child could have left whenever they wanted to. In fact, the children were allowed to go and come as they pleased…
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