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Conviction Christian institutions & contexts Other or denomination not established Michigan, USA · 2011

United States: 2×2 worker convicted twice for abusing a host family's daughter

Record class

Core record

Evidence status

Convicted

Authority role

itinerant 2×2 worker in Michigan and Wisconsin

Organization

'Two by Twos' / 'The Truth' (nameless sect)

Spiritual nexus

The same canonical nexus: an itinerant worker embedded in the family home as the faith's living authority — the arrangement the sect's doctrine requires.

  • Pastoral or clerical authority
  • Institutional obedience or isolation

Evidence structure

Proceedings

  1. 2011-09-01 · convictions in 2010 and 2011

    Michigan courts, USA. Peter Mousseau, a 2×2 worker active in Michigan and Wisconsin, stayed with a member family as an itinerant preacher and abused their daughter from the age of eleven (a 1997 offence, with a separate 1993 offence). He was convicted in 2010 of fourth-degree criminal sexual conduct and in September 2011 of assault with intent to commit sexual penetration, receiving two to ten years. The survivor, Lisa Webb, has spoken publicly and features in the Associated Press's 2024 coverage of the FBI investigation into the sect.

Documented coercion mechanisms

  • housed in the victim's family home as their spiritual authority

Primary record

Sources

national news agency investigative and conviction report 'Survivors seek a reckoning as FBI investigates child sex abuse in little-known Christian sect', Associated Press (2024).

AP wire coverage of the sect, the FBI investigation, and the Mousseau case through the survivor's account.

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