Religious Abuse or Fraud
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1. | When did you first have contact with the ministry or person (best guess is OK) ? |
2. | What attracted or appealed to you? |
3. | What was your need or emotional condition at the time?
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4. | Is this ministry or person presently on the air? Yes No |
5. | When and where did you last see, hear, or attend the program,
seminar, crusade, etc.? |
6. | a) When did you last contact this ministry or person? |
b) When did they last contact you? | |
c) Have you kept your letters, requests, or written answers
to your prayers or any records of correspondence to you from the ministry
or person? Yes No |
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d) If yes, would you provide us copies or allow us to copy
and return the originals? Yes No |
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7. | a) Did they make a specific promise that was not fulfilled?
Yes No |
b) If yes, what promise did they make? |
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c) If Yes, was this promise made to you in a broadcast, in printed material or in person? | |
d) If by broadcast, on what program did they make this
promise? If possible, include the date, time and channel it was aired on.
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e) If by printed material, do you still have a copy of
it? Yes No |
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f) If by broadcast, do you have a recording of it? Yes No |
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8. | a) What is the approximate value of the money/property
you donated/invested to this ministry/person? |
b) Can you verify and have you kept records of this? Yes No |
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c) If necessary, would you furnish us copies of your cancelled
checks or money order receipts that you donated/invested to this ministry/person?
Yes No |
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9. | a) Did you make this donation/investment upon reliance
of their specific promise? Yes No |
b) Did they tell you that you had to make this donation/investment
in order for them to fulfill their promise to you? Yes No |
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c) Did you believe that you had to make the donation/investment
in order for them to fulfill their promise to you? Yes No |
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d) Were you told or made to feel that if you Did Not donate/invest,
you would fall out of God's favor? Yes No |
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10. | a) Would you release to us your annual income? Yes No |
b) If so, what was your annual income at the time this
happened? |
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c) What is your most recent annual income? |
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11. | a) Have you ever received any type of welfare? Yes No |
b) If so, what type? | |
c) For how long? | |
d) How much? | |
12. | How has this experience affected your faith? |
13. | a) Do you think that this ministry/person is doing some
good? Yes No |
b) In what way or ways? |
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14. | Would you support more public accountability of ministries/persons
like this? Yes No |
15. | a) Would you be willing to join a civil suit against this organization/person in which you might or might Not receive compensation for the alleged damage that was done to you? Yes No |
b) If Yes, do you understand that by joining such a suit you will probably be asked to testify in open court or by deposition and that your name could be in the paper or on the news? Yes No | |
16. | Do you intend to or have you taken any legal action? Yes No |
17. | From time to time we are contacted by members of the media looking for names of people who are victims. May we have your permission to give them your name? Yes No |
18. | a) Do you know of anyone else that has been injured that might want to talk to us? Yes No |
b) If so would you furnish them our contact information?
Yes No |
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19. | Would you be willing to write a letter to the legal authorities about your experience with or concerns about this ministry/person? Yes No |
20. | a) Have you ever been employed by the ministry/person being Reported? Yes No |
b) What was your title? | |
c) What was your job? | |
d) Who was your immediate supervisor? | |
e) At which location? | |
f) What was your salary? | |
g) What time period did you work for this ministry/person?
From to |
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21. | Why did you leave? |
22. | Any other remarks? |
"I have reviewed my answers and comments above and state that they are true to the best of my knowledge and remembrance." Yes No |
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