Lawsuit claims San Jose’s The River church covered up sexual misconduct by youth pastor now charged with abusing girl

Long before Brett Bymaster, a former youth pastor at The River church in San Jose, was charged in April with sexually abusing a girl, church officials were warned of his alleged inappropriate acts toward children and sought to cover them up, a lawsuit by a former church employee claims.

Dana Huang started working as a youth minister at the evangelical church in January 2017, under Bymaster’s supervision, according to her lawsuit filed Monday in Santa Clara County Superior Court. Huang claimed...