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 ...
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