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Media Links About the Recent Lawsuit Filed Against the Western Mennonite School and Pacific Northwest Mennonite Conference

By March 4, 2015June 22nd, 2020No Comments

mennonite-school-yoderYesterday we filed a lawsuit against both the Pacific northwest Mennonite Conference and the Western Mennonite School in Salem, Oregon. We filed on behalf of our client, who was a freshman at the religious school when she was sexually abused by her Geography teacher, Matthew Yoder.  Yoder was arrested and sentenced to prison at the Shutter creek Correctional Institution in North Bend, Oregon.

We wrote about this in depth in a blog post yesterday.

This is a pretty big lawsuit, and many media organizations carried the story, including the following: