Missouri House Speaker Rob Vescovo, R-Arnold, is asking federal prosecutors to get involved in the investigation of Agape Boarding School (Tim Bommel\/Missouri House Communications). 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 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. In recent weeks, the state Department of Social Services and the attorney general’s office have sought to have the school shut down, claiming a systemic pattern of abuse at the school, which they allege poses immediate health or safety concerns<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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