Keith Johnson, the former head of a Christian school that’s been called a hub of physical and emotional abuse, has gone missing, presumably to avoid getting served with legal documents in a $25 million lawsuit.

Earlier this summer, 18 former students of the Christian Centre Academy (now called Legacy Christian Academy) in Saskatoon told the CBC about how they suffered while attending the private religious school. One was subject to a “violent exorcism” to cast out his “gay demons.” Another was placed in “solitary confinement” every day for two full weeks.

The school’s response was to deny everything and insist things are different today… even though many staff members were the same, and even though former administrators were still working in the profession, and even though there was never any formal apology.

Making matters worse was that the school received government funding for decades. It amounts to roughly $700,000 per year today.

A week after the CBC’s Jason Warick published his first piece on the school, the victims, now numbering more than 30, filed a class action lawsuit against the school and the Saskatoon Christian Centre Church (now known as the Mile Two Church) which oversees it. ...