A lawyer urges victims of Jesus Army abuse to come forward to claim compensation.
The Jesus Army was a religious movement that sprang up in Northamptonshire in the 1970s.
Ms Hallisay, of Hugh James Solicitors, has worked with a number of survivors after first being contacted by a former member whose entire family had been involved in the Jesus Army.The Jesus Centre, former home of the Jesus Fellowship in Northampton town centrePeople can claim if they were victims of abuse, if they suffered trauma due to rules within the group or if they were employed by Jesus Army businesses and suffered shortfalls in National Insurance pension or other retirement benefits .
She said: "What modern day justice looks like, it is compensation and people are entitled to that, they are entitled to justice."It dissolved itself in 2019 after the BBCfor alleged sexual, physical and psychological abuse.
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