Ironic Innocence at Trinity Christian Academy

Posted on June 10, 2022 | 1 Comment

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It was pastor Bob Gray who gave my mother permission to marry the man who’d become my father in 1972. I didn’t attend the school until after my mother died. My 1989 yearbook is dedicated to Dennis Cassell, Trinity Christian Academy’s first football coach, who’d soon be fired for speaking out against how Trinity’s coverup of decades of child sexual abuse. Ironically, I miss my own innocence, and my few friendships, from those years.

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One response to “Ironic Innocence at Trinity Christian Academy”

Lew A (Lincoln) Welge | June 10, 2022 at 1:42 pm |

Takes courage to compose & share testimony against even, or especially formerly powerful prevaricating perpetrators. Ty

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