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‘Absolute Lies’: American Missionary Accused of Posing as Doctor, Killing Hundreds of Children Vehemently Denies Charges

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By Tré Goins-Phillips
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June 25, 2019

An American missionary from central Virginia has been accused in a recent lawsuit of posing as a medical doctor in Uganda, resulting in the deaths of hundreds of children.

Renee Bach, a Bedford native and the founder of Serving His Children (SHC), has denied the claims against her and her lawyer, David Gibbs, of the National Center for Life and Liberty (NCLL), has described his client’s critics as “reputational terrorists” and has called the charges leveled against her “nonsensical.”

The Women’s Probono Initiative filed the lawsuit against Bach in January. But the issue has garnered recent attention thanks to social media posts from the group No White Saviors.

Bach, in the lawsuit, is accused of having pretended to be a doctor who treated hundreds of children without any medical training. Now 35, she founded SHC in 2009, two years after she graduated high school.

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She soon established herself in Masese, right outside of Jinja, the second largest city in Uganda. Charity, she told the Smith Mountain Eagle in 2014, is “God’s call” on her life.

In a statement to Al Jazeera, Bach said she “can’t rule out the fact that children died, like they do die at any health facility, but it’s still not true to say I killed them.” She added, “These allegations that over 1,000 children died is absolute lies.”

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In 2011 Serving His Children began a small supplemental feeding program in Manafwa district, we worked in conjunction with a Health Center IV and a non-profit from the United States. Every other Monday our team would pack up and travel 3 hours to conduct nutritional assessments, distribute high protein porridge, and refer severely malnourished children to our Jinja inpatient center. At the end of the day, we would cram mom's and kids in tight to drive them back to Jinja where they would receive medical treatment and nutritional rehabilitation by our team of medical professionals. . . As SHC continued to grow, the need in Manafwa only increased and we found it difficult to continue to travel such a distance while also meeting the demands in other districts across Uganda. Being that we are huge fans of partnership, we had the chance to work alongside an incredible and more local org called, LAMP [Life Africa Mission Project] and since 2014 they have taken over the program, making it bigger and better than we ever could have. This organization shares in the vision to one day see malnutrition irradiated in Uganda, and they are working hard to do just that! . . This past Monday some of our team visited Manafwa outpatient program and had the pleasure of witnessing much of the growth and expansion that's taken place. What a blast! . . Thanks, LAMP for loving and living Christ so well. We are honored to call you our friends and partners in breaking the cycle of malnutrition! . . #servinghis #lamp #uganda #africa #malnutrition #manafwamondays #outpatient #breakingthecycle

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But the lawsuit, brought about by two mothers whose children died while in the care of SHC, tells an entirely different story.

The suit claims the families whose children were in SHC’s care were led to believe Bach had medical training and her home was a medical facility. The Women’s Probono Initiative, which is representing the two mothers, issued a press release claiming Bach commonly wore a white lab coat and stethoscope and was often seen distributing medication and offering medical treatment to children.

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“It is unacceptable, narcissistic behavior, for anyone — black or white, rich or poor, missionary or angel — to pass off as a ‘medical practitioner’ when they are not,” the initiative wrote in a statement.

In 2014, it should be noted, SHC had 24 paid staff members and was caring for between 100 and 150 children every year. At the time, the center was reported to have a small medical clinic and an inpatient program capable of servicing 16 children at a time. The average stay for each malnourished child, according to Bach, was four to six weeks.

“Our main goal is, of course, to share the love of Christ, in word and deed,” she said.

SHC was allegedly told by Ugandan officials to shut down its operations in the African country, the lawsuit stated.

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