Church of Divine Appointment, Moment of Truth Ministries Sued by Bridgette Jennings-Benbo Alleging Daughter Died After Church Ritual

Las Vegas church, The Church of Divine Appointment, Moment of Truth Ministries and two officials sued by Bridgette Jennings-Benbo after daughter, Brianna, died last year after allegedly partaking of fasting ritual.

The Church of Divine Appointment, The Moment of Truth Ministries, Inc. and two officials were sued in Clark County District Court in Nevada by Bridgette Jennings-Benbo over allegations her daughter, Brianna Benbo, died after a ritual at the Las Vegas church last year. The mother alleges in the lawsuit the church gave her daughter a poisonous substance prior to fasting that led to her death on July 8, 2010.

Four hours before her death, while a parishioner attending services at the church, she was induced to take medication “prefatory to a religious ritual fast,” the suit says.

The medication, unknown to the girl, contained bee pollen “and certain other chemical compounds which were toxic and poisonous,” the suit says, adding that the girl suffered respiratory and cardiac arrest and died within four hours of consuming the substance.

Calling the circumstances a “zealous religious fasting ritual,” the mother’s attorneys accused the church of wrongful death and negligence. They also alleged product liability.The church formulated certain compounds and chemicals into capsulated form and these products were “unreasonably dangerous for use by the public,” the suit charges. Source

The lawsuit is seeking unspecified damages. Unless it's communion, there is no need for anyone to take any other substance from a church as part of fasting or a church event where food is served. The ritual alone should have raised red flags.