Mormon sexual abuse news: Former Idaho high school football coach charged with sexual abuse of a teenager was a Mormon bishopric counselor twice from 2014 to 2019. Floodlit case report: https://floodlit.org/a/g082/ Dozens of LDS sex abuse cases involving teachers: https://floodlit.org/?s=Teacher&id=5740 Kip Erik Crofts, 59, was a high school football coach in Caldwell, Idaho for many…
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Did the Mormon church “grandfather in” known sex offenders in 1995, when it launched its abuse “help line” and started placing confidential annotations on membership records for child abuse? In other words, did the church tell its members about the abusers it already knew about? What did the church do in 1995 to combat child…
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Updated case details on Brandon Rex Brown: https://floodlit.org/a/a479/
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Case report: https://floodlit.org/a/a038/ Download: 2025 sexual abuse lawsuit v. Mormon OB/GYN David Broadbent FLOODLIT has covered the unfolding criminal and civil litigation against former Provo, Utah OB/GYN David Broadbent since we launched in 2022, about a year after a woman shared her experience as his patient during a December 2021 Mormon Stories podcast episode (When…
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Four Zaugg men – three convicted Utah sex offenders, one recently charged in Idaho. All raised Mormon. Two went on Mormon missions. All four added to our Mormon sexual abuse database yesterday and today. At least three are related to each other. Did you know any of them? Floodlit posted yesterday about Krew Zaugg, a…
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Case details on Jeffery Lee Niemi: https://floodlit.org/a/g069/
Case details on Krew Zaugg, 21, of Idaho Falls, Idaho: https://floodlit.org/a/g070/
Part of a series on lawsuits alleging sexual abuse coverups by Mormon officials. Floodlit.org has learned that from 1963 to 1989 (26 straight years), five Mormon men who knew of the Boy Scout perversion files held the paid position of top liaison between BSA and LDS church. If an LDS official’s 2012 statement is true,…
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Part of a series on lawsuits alleging sexual abuse coverups by Mormon officials. Yesterday, we mentioned the disturbing case of Richard Kenneth Ray, a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS church) who admitted to Arizona police in 1984 to molesting at least 33 children, three calves, and a dog over…
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