Key point 10-11. A church may be legally responsible on the basis of negligent supervision for injuries resulting from a failure to exercise adequate supervision of its programs and activities.
Other circumstances in which courts have found churches guilty of negligent supervision include a youth activity in which a 9-year-old boy was killed when a utility pole crushed him;[138] Glorioso v. YMCA of Jackson, 540 So.2d 638 (Miss. 1989). a church picnic during which a 15-year-old boy was rendered a quadriplegic when he fell out of a tree;[139] Logan v. Old Enterprise Farms, Ltd., 544 N.E.2d 998 (Ill. App. 1989). a church picnic at which a child drowned; [140] Herring v. R.L. Mathis Certified Dairy Co., 162 S.E.2d 863 (Ga. 1968), aff'd in part and rev'd in part, Bourn v. Herring, 166 S.E.2d 89 (Ga. 1969). See also L.M. Jeffords v. Atlanta Presbytery, Inc., 231 S.E.2d 355 (Ga. 1976); Brown v. ...
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