Top Missouri lawmaker urges federal prosecutors to intervene in Agape abuse case

House Speaker Rob Vescovo is calling for the U.S. attorney’s office to get involved because he believes local officials ‘either turned a blind eye to, or helped to cover up’ abuse at Agape Boarding School.
Missouri’s highest ranking legislator is asking federal prosecutors to intervene and shut down Agape Boarding School, alleging “undeniable corruption” and “inaction” by local officials who he says “could do the right thing and have consistently chosen not to.”

House Speaker Rob Vescovo, R-Arnold, made his request last Wednesday in a letter to Teresa Moore, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri.

The Missouri Independent obtained the letter through a request under Missouri’s open records laws.

Stockton-based Agape is a Christian reform school which has faced mounting allegations of physical and sexual abuse by former students.