(888) 407-0224The Associated Press
10/21/2008
PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — The Higher Balance Institute and its founders face a sex abuse lawsuit.
The complaint accuses the Beaverton spiritual organization and founders Eric Pepin and Jamison Priebe of sexually abusing a teenage boy while he was their disciple.
The lawsuit was filed Oct. 8 in Multnomah County Circuit Court by Portland attorney Kelly Clark, who filed many of the abuse lawsuits against the Roman Catholic Church in Oregon settled last year for more than $50 million.
Pepin and Priebe were acquitted of criminal sex abuse charges in a trial last year in Washington County Circuit Court.
But Clark says in the lawsuit the pair had a “system for preying upon young people.”
Efforts to contact Higher Balance were unsuccessful.
The Higher Balance Institute and its founders face a sex abuse lawsuit.
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10/22/2008
The complaint accuses the Beaverton spiritual organization and founders Eric Pepin and Jamison Priebe of sexually abusing a teenage boy while he was their disciple.
The lawsuit was filed October 8 in Multnomah County Circuit Court by Portland attorney Kelly Clark, who filed many of the abuse lawsuits against the Roman Catholic Church in Oregon settled last year for more than $50 million.
Pepin and Priebe were acquitted of criminal sex abuse charges in a trial last year in Washington County Circuit Court.
But Clark says in the lawsuit the pair had a “system for preying upon young people.”
Efforts to contact Higher Balance were unsuccessful.
