TAVARES – The mother of a Lake County boy who was sexually abused by his pastor has sued the clergyman, two area churches and two Baptist groups, maintaining they should have protected her son.
The lawsuit seeks unspecified compensatory damages for the boy’s continuing psychotherapy from the Rev. Douglas W. Myers, his defunct Triangle Community Church in Eustis, Bay Street Baptist Church in Eustis, the Lake County Baptist Association and the Jacksonville-based Florida Baptist Convention.
Lawyers for the boy, identified in court documents as “E,” contend that the church groups should have known that Myers, 58, was “unsuitable” to be a pastor.
The lawsuit says the mother and son may ask for punitive damages as well.
