From the AJC
A fourth young man has come forward and said he had sexual relations with Bishop Eddie Long when he was a teenager, the Associated Press reports.
Attorney B.J. Bernstein, who's filed suits on behalf of three other young men making similar allegations, said she is filing a lawsuit Friday on behalf of a member of New Birth Charlotte, a satellite church in North Carolina. She says the teen met Long in May 2005, according to the AP.
The boy was 17, the suit alleges, when he first engaged in sexual activities with Long while vacationing in Kenya. Long later encouraged him to move to Atlanta, where the activity continued through 2009, AP reports.
A woman who answered the phone at the office of Long’s attorney declined comment to the AJC, saying they had not heard about a fourth lawsuit.
At that time LeGrande started dating, and Long attempted to end that relationship "by increased contact and spiritual talk as to the relationship between the Spiritual Son and himself," the suit states.
Long is charged with breach of fiduciary duty; negligence; fraud; infliction of emotional distress and other counts based on sexual acts. LongFellows Youth Academy is not named in this suit as it is in the previous three.
