Two lawsuits filed against Volusia County church groups over alleged sexual abuse

Herman Law Firm is filing two lawsuits against church groups, alleging that the groups knew about a church leader’s past behavior but hired him anyway. More than a decade after being sexually abused by a pastor at his school, Richard “Tucker” Tripp is speaking out about his experience.“I refuse to carry the shame for what happened to me as a child any further,” Tripp said.Herman Law is filing two lawsuits. One is against the Christian and Missionary Alliance and Edgewater Alliance Church on behalf of Tripp. The other is against Warner Christian Academy on behalf of another victim, Camron Armstrong.Attorneys say the lawsuits are not the first of their kind, but they have uncovered new evidence that church groups knew about Matthew Grazziotti’s behavior but still employed him.“This information was there in just one conversation with the Friendship Church leadership. It was there and the red flag behaviors that Graziotti’s was engaging in at the school property. But both institutions gave