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(82,333 posts) Wed Feb 19, 2014, 04:29 PM Feb 2014

Group homes' residents allegedly forced to attend religious services

By Richard Winton and Angel Jennings
February 19, 2014, 8:59 a.m.

County and state officials have begun moving dozens of physically and mentally disabled residents from two board-and-care homes where they were allegedly forced to live in "deplorable" conditions and punished if they failed to attend religious services.

Los Angeles City Atty. Mike Feuer filed a lawsuit against Agape Mission House and Agape Home Church, unlicensed assisted-care facilities, alleging that residents lived in overcrowded and substandard conditions.

A Los Angeles County Superior Court judge last Friday appointed a receiver to immediately begin relocating residents from the homes in the 2200 block of South Hobart Boulevard.

The suit names Kang Won Lee and Jung Hwan Lee, a husband and wife, as operators of the facilities, both registered as charities. Neither of the Lees could be reached for comment

http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-pastor-disabled-residents-20140219,0,2687104.story#ixzz2tnm7bqM7

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Group homes' residents allegedly forced to attend religious services (Original Post) rug Feb 2014 OP

Group homes are some of the most shameful things in this country. cbayer Feb 2014 #1

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1. Group homes are some of the most shameful things in this country.

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Wed Feb 19, 2014, 04:37 PM

Feb 2014

While there are some good people running some good homes, there are also horrible people running horrible homes.

The states don't pay enough to encourage people to do it right, so the market gets filled with people who are not only doing it wrong but doing it for the wrong reasons.

Shameful.

But what is interesting here is that some of the residents deny it and speak very positively of the home.

Who knows where the truth lies?

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