CHARLESTON — Another lawsuit was filed against Miracle Meadows School after a student alleged abuse during their time at the school.
The lawsuit named Seventh-Day Adventist Church North American Division, Columbia Union Conference Association of Seventh Day Adventists Inc., Mountain View Conference Association of Seventh-Day Adventists, Miracle Meadows School and Susan Gayle Clark as defendants.
D.O. was a student at the boarding school and abused at the hands of the defendants, according to a complaint filed in Kanawha Circuit Court.
The student claims they were regularly abused, sexually abused and quarantined to a windowless room that at times did not have heating, lighting or air conditioning.
The defendants violated child labor laws, failed to educate the plaintiff and caused them serious physical harm, vocational impairment and emotional and mental distress.
D.O. is seeking compensatory and punitive damages. They are represented by W. Jesse Forbes of Forbes Law Offices; R. Scott Long of Hendrickson & Long; and V. Paul Bucci II, Brian D. Kent and Gaetano D'Andrea of Laffey Bucci & Kent.
Kanawha Circuit Court case number: 21-C-556