Kansas City, MO personal injury attorney Jarrett Johnson talks about his experience handling religious and boarding school abuse cases. He has had the privilege of representing approximately three dozen individuals—men and women who, as teenagers, were entrusted to religious boarding schools in Missouri by their caregivers. At these schools, the children endured sexual abuse, physical beatings, and prolonged restraints, sometimes for hours, with multiple people sitting on their backs, for example, with their faces pressed into gravel. They were forced to consume mixtures of bologna and oatmeal blended together, and when they vomited, they were compelled to eat their own vomit. They were confined to dark rooms with no light, no contact with others, and only a bucket for a bathroom.

It has been an absolute privilege for him to represent these individuals and help secure justice for them. Fortunately, due to the structure of federal law, these victims were able to come forward at a point in their lives when the statute of limitations would normally have expired. Under this set of federal laws, they were able to pursue their cases as late as age 31. He was able to assist some who were still young, only 18 or 19 years old, while also supporting others who had moved on with their lives, gotten married, and had children, yet continued to be haunted by the abuse they suffered as teenagers.