Two former residents of a Missouri faith-based residential program have filed a federal lawsuit alleging they were subjected to systematic abuse, neglect, coercion and forced unpaid labor while they were minors at Kansas City Girls Academy.
The academy is a nonprofit facility that marketed itself as providing religious mentorship and therapeutic care to “troubled teens,” according to a complaint filed last month in U.S. District Court for the Western District of Missouri.
The plaintiffs, identified as Jane Doe, K.H. and June Doe, M.H., allege they were recruited and housed by Kansas City Girls Academy and related entities and then held in involuntary servitude in violation of federal anti-trafficking and child-protection laws…