Midnight in Toledo: How the Ohio Conference Apparently Abandoned Two 18-year-old Camp Counselors on Father’s Day

[Stan]

Whistleblowing, a midnight transit drop-off, and why a corporate church hierarchy can't hide from a father who happens to be an expert in institutional accountability.

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[Asia Joe]

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How did it come to this? It is a story steeped in the peculiar, toxic brew of religious authority and bureaucratic cowardice. This is not the first time the Ohio Conference has stumbled through a crisis of its own making. There is a deeply entrenched, recurring pattern here of handling intense personnel issues with the subtlety of a sledgehammer and the transparency of a lead wall.

There has been a leadership problem in Ohio for a while. 

Thank you for shedding light on this. 

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There has long been a thin veneer in this country, a comfortable, pious assumption wrapped in outdated notions of the law, that religious entities are somehow blanketly immune from the reach of secular litigation. But that veneer is cracking. While churches enjoy certain structural protections, placing an 18-year-old employee on a concrete platform in a high-crime area after midnight, completely unescorted, veers dangerously past the boundaries of administrative discretion and straight into the territory of gross negligence and reckless endangerment.

Yes, I agree. A storm is coming.  The GC wants to ignore this.  Let NAD handle it. NAD wants to let the Union handle it. 

The result, no one is doing anything. 

And people are becoming angry and frustrated. 

 

[Asia Joe]

After thinking about this, it appears to be a crime that took place. 

I am not an attorney, but, I suspect taking two young women to a high crime area, late at night,  without their permission is a crime. 

Possibly more than one.