E.R.B. v. CHURCH OF GOD

No. 20143-7-II.

950 P.2d 29 (1998)

89 Wash.App. 670

E.R.B., a single person, and John Bales and Jody Bales, husband and wife, Appellants, v. CHURCH OF GOD, a Washington corporation; and Rick Shaw and "Jane Doe" Shaw, husband and wife; Abc Church Of God And Xyz Church Of God, Published Opinion Respondents.

Court of Appeals of Washington, Division 2.

Reconsideration Denied March 6, 1998.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Thomas Joseph West, Martin Burns, Thompson Krilich Etal, Tacoma, for Appellants.

Stewart Andrew Estes, Keating Bucklin & McCormack, Seattle, Sandra B. Bobrick, Sloan Bobrick & Oldfield, Tacoma, Sheryl Denise Johnson Willert, Mary H. Spillane, Williams Kastner & Gibbs, Robert C. Dickerson, David Michael Jacobi, Wilson Smith Cochran & Dickerson, Seattle, for Respondents.


HUNT, Judge.

John and Jody Bales appeal summary judgment dismissal of their lawsuits against: Rick Shaw, a minister at the Baleses' local church; the New Life Fellowship Church of God ("Local Church"); and the Pacific Northwest Church of God State Office and Parsonage ("State Office"). They claim Shaw sexually molested their teenage son E.R.B. from 1985 to 1989, and that the Local Church and State Office had negligently hired...

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