LifeWise Academy

William VanSickle, Christopher Riggs and Kenneth Holycross were all either charged or pled guilty to crimes ranging from voyeurism to raping children since mid-April. The three men are from Miami, Muskingum and Perry counties and all, at one point, worked for LifeWise as volunteers or teachers.

The Ohio Supreme Court decision called the case moot, meaning that the underlying cause of the case — a complaint to the Ohio Civil Rights Commission — had been resolved.

Lifewise produced a documentary at its new Ohio headquarters that will hit theatres nationwide next month.

The legal filing in the Ohio Supreme Court stems from a complaint a former employee made to the Ohio Civil Rights Commission.

Lifewise, a Christian-based program, takes kids out of public schools with parent permission to attend religious-based programming in Ohio and other states.

The House-passed state budget plan sets limits on the number of times a week the group can remove Ohio kids from school for religious instruction.

The "Parents' Bill of Rights," which goes into effect Wednesday, requires schools to have a religious release time policy on the books.

LifeWise Academy, a program that provides off-site Bible study for public school students during school hours, released a report saying they are now in more than 600 schools nationwide.

LifeWise Academy, which holds off-site school day Bible study classes for public school students, doubled its revenue as a nonprofit in the last fiscal year.

LifeWise was suing Zachary Parrish of Indiana after he obtained and shared the nonprofit's curriculum online.