On June 21, 2022, Henry Lee Porter Sr., the former bishop of a Sarasota evangelical church, Westcoast Center for Human Development, began his week-long trial after he was arrested in 2020 for sexually abusing multiple children from as far back as 1989. According to media reports, after a 3-hour deliberation in the 12th Judicial Circuit Court on June 24, the jury found Henry Lee…
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VENICE MASSAGE THERAPIST ARRESTED FOR SEXUAL ABUSE OF DISABLED WOMAN
VENICE MASSAGE THERAPIST ARRESTED FOR SEXUAL ABUSE OF DISABLED WOMAN In early November 2020, Sarasota Police arrested massage therapist, Mark Douglas Elliott, 64, of the 400 block of Appian Way in Venice, for allegedly committing sexual battery on a disabled patient. According to records, Elliott, a licensed massage therapist since December 2011, was hired in April 2020 to treat the…
Sarasota Police Fear Dozens More Victims Were Sexually Abused by Bishop Henry Lee Porter
On Wednesday, January 8, 2020, Sarasota Police held a press conference on the arrest of the former bishop and founder of the Westcoast Center for Human Development, Henry Lee Porter, alerting the public that several victims came forward with allegations of being sexually abused by the minister. Authorities including the FBI said there are potentially dozens more victims. Porter was arrested in…
Former Sarasota Bishop Henry Lee Porter Arrested on Sexually Abusing Children Decades Ago
On Thursday, January 2, 2020, Sarasota Police arrested former bishop, Henry Lee Porter after multiple investigations “demonstrated more than four decades of children and adults suffering sexual abuse by Henry Lee Porter Sr..” Porter, 72, was arrested for one count of alleged sexual battery of a child under 12 years old, a first-degree felony punishable by up to life in…
Lawsuit Filed Against Diocese of Venice for Alleged Sexual Assault by Father Nicholas McLoughlin
Horowitz Law has filed a lawsuit in Sarasota County on behalf of an adult female client alleging that she was sexually assaulted in April 2018 by Diocese of Venice priest Nicholas McLoughlin in the confessional at Our Lady of Grace in Avon Park, Florida. McLoughlin, known to parishioners as “Father Nick”, was the Pastor at Our Lady of Grace at…