Liberty sues Jerry Falwell Jr., seeking millions in damages California woman says she drowned children to protect them
RICHMOND, Va. – Liberty University filed a civil lawsuit against its former leader, Jerry Falwell Jr., seeking millions in damages after the two parted ways acrimoniously last year.
The complaint, filed Thursday in Lynchburg Circuit Court, alleges Falwell crafted a “well-resourced exit strategy” from his role as president and chancellor in the form of a 2019 employment agreement while withholding from the school key details about a personal scandal that exploded into public view last year.
It also alleges that Falwell failed to disclose and address “the issue of his personal impairment by alcohol” and has refused to fully return Liberty’s confidential information and other personal property.
Falwell’s departure from the Virginia university in August 2020 came soon after Giancarlo Granda, a younger business partner of the Falwell family, said he had a yearslong sexual relationship with Falwell’s wife, Becki Falwell, and that Jerry Falwell participated in some of the liaisons as a voyeur.
BAKERSFIELD, Calif. – A California woman admitted to drowning her three young children because, she said in a jailhouse television interview, it would keep them away from their father amid a bitter custody battle.
Liliana Carrillo told KGET-TV that she wanted to “protect” her kids – 3year-old Joanna Denton Carrillo, her 2year-old brother, Terry, and 6-monthold sister, Sierra – from abuse, the station reported. Carrillo has not been charged in the children’s deaths in Los Angeles and the investigation continues.
“I drowned them,” she said in the interview Thursday at the Lerdo Pre-trial Facility in Kern County. “I did it as softly, I don’t know how to explain it, but I hugged them and I kissed them and I was apologizing the whole time,” she said. “I loved my kids.”