4,065+ reports of sexual abuse in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
- 632 sex offenders
- 73 convicted former bishops
- 77 ongoing criminal cases
- 118 ongoing civil lawsuits
- $51 million in payments after alleged failures
Timeline: LDS church sued insurers to collect $90 million, after settling 5-year-long child sex abuse suit
- Apr. 24, 2025: Rob Dindinger, Utah psychologist and porn addiction book author, criminally charged with secretly filming teen patients undressing
- Apr. 23, 2025: Jared Buckley, Utah charter school director arrested on suspicion of child sexual exploitation
- Apr. 22, 2025: Sheldon Bates case report – former Mormon Boy Scout leader arrested, facing 42 felony charges for allegedly sexually assaulting four boys in Utah from 2006 to 2020
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- BREAKING Apr. 21, 2025: Doug Richens case update – LDS church subpoenaed
- Apr. 21, 2025: David McConkie case update – Updated timeline and details (former bishop and stake president)
- Apr. 16, 2025: BREAKING: Mormon Church Nears Massive Settlement of Over 100 Sexual Abuse Claims
- Apr. 11, 2025: BREAKING: Mormon church loses civil lawsuit against insurance companies over sexual abuse settlements
- Apr. 8, 2025: Wave of around 100 Mormon sex abuse lawsuits continues in California
- Mar. 31, 2025: Scott Owen sentenced to prison in Utah; FLOODLIT’s investigative reporting helped lead to his arrest. Multiple survivors of abuse by Owen communicated with FLOODLIT before reporting to police.
- Mar. 27, 2025: David Hamblin child sexual abuse case update. Statement by the Utah County Sheriff’s Office.
- Mar. 27, 2025: David Curtis sentenced in Utah to prison.
- BREAKING NEWS – MAR. 25, 2025: Massive $32 million Mormon sex abuse settlement revealed by FLOODLIT.org. For the first time, the public is finding out the LDS church poured nearly $60 million to defend and settle a single sexual abuse lawsuit.
- Mar. 25, 2025: FLOODLIT.org, a non-profit organization investigating sexual abuse in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, has learned that the church spent nearly $60 million over five years to defend and settle a 2013 West Virginia lawsuit by child sexual abuse victims.
- Mar. 21, 2025: Former international director of the Mormon church’s disability services and prison ministry, Doug Richens (Douglas Richens), arrested in Tooele, Utah and charged with sodomy on a child and two counts of aggravated sexual abuse of a child, first-degree felonies; sexual abuse of a child, a second-degree felony; and sexual battery, a class A misdemeanor.
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