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Suit alleges TBN covered up rape of 13-year-old
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"As adults, family members, and ordained ministers, the Participating Individuals were in a position of actual or apparent power over Ms. Crouch, and the Participating Individuals abused that position of trust and that relationship to protect Trinity Broadcasting’s interests."
Crouch’s best friend, Brooke Davidson, told us she learned of the incident after the two became friends about a year after it happened. Crouch carries tremendous guilt, Davidson said, internalizing that it was somehow her fault, and is only beginning to deal with things. Davidson has been telling Crouch for years that it could not have been her fault — she was a 13 year-old girl, and this was a 30-year-old man, Davidson said.
Brittany Koper, Carra’s older sister, was already off to college in 2006. When she returned, she noticed her sister had become more withdrawn, but didn’t find out the details until May of 2011, when Carra Crouch ran away. "My sister has been down dark and dangerous paths," said Koper. "She’s doing better, taking first steps of healing and recovery."
Crouch was working part-time at the Trinity gift shop until she was recently let go — part of the sweep of those close to her big sister Brittany, which included their father, Paul Crouch Jr., Koper maintains. Crouch is now in cosmetology school, following in her best friend’s footsteps, and trying to move forward with her life.
We’ll keep you posted on how things progress.
Staff writer Larry Welborn contributed to this report.