Lawyer Claims Alleged Victims Of Coterie Theater Honcho Were Consenting Adults

Tragically, a Christmas time suicide guarantees that very little  of the allegations can be verified by any objective authority.

Here's the clap back that blame social media for drama that has embroiled the local theater scene:

The lawyer for the estate of Jeff Church, The Coterie theater producing artistic director accused of sexually abusing young men for years, says that they spoke the night before Church took his life and that Church was “feeling the pressure from what he called the social media ‘dogpile.’”

Attorney Larry LaVigne II said Church died by suicide before he told his side of the story, which asserts that Church’s accusers were “consenting adults.”

But that term “is a common technique we see to discredit survivors,” said Julie Donelon, president and CEO of MOCSA, Kansas City’s largest resource organization for survivors of sexual assault.

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Lawyer: Coterie director killed himself amid social media 'dogpile' of abuse claims

The lawyer for the estate of Jeff Church, The Coterie theater producing artistic director accused of sexually abusing young men for years, says that they spoke the night before Church took his life and that Church was "feeling the pressure from what he called the social media 'dogpile.'" Attorney Larry LaVigne II said Church died by suicide before he told his side of the story, which asserts that Church's accusers were "consenting adults."