Case summary
Add info | Back to topBrian Pickett at the LDS Maui Land and Pineapple Company.
This LDS company “recruited youths from Mormon communities in Utah and southern Idaho to go to camps in Maui to pick pineapples in the 1970s and 1980s, which led to them being sexually molested.”
“The lawsuit claims that Mormon men in their 20s, who qualified for supervisory positions after completing their two-year missions, ran the camps, which recruited minors from church wards and scouting organizations.” And claims that one man, who was appointed camp coordinator, branch president and stake high counselor for one of the camps, molested the two boys from 1986 until 1989.”
“Jacob Huggard and Kyle Spray said they were molested by a coordinator who oversaw hundreds of boys at a camp from 1986 to 1988. Both men are now living in Pleasant Grove,
Utah. According to the lawsuit filed Wednesday, the church recruited hundreds of teen boys from Utah and southeastern Idaho to work in Maui pineapple fields in the 1970s and 1980s. The camps closed in the 1990s.”
LDS Maui Pineapple company Lawsuit-Unnamed predator.1 and 2 .pdf
http://www.sltrib.com/sltrib/news/57438270-78/church-lawsuit-sexualcamps.html.csp
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04/03/86 Maui, Hawaii
Brian Pickett at the LDS Maui Land and Pineapple Company.
This LDS company “recruited youths from Mormon communities in Utah and southern Idaho
to go to camps in Maui to pick pineapples in the 1970s and 1980s, which led to them being
sexually molested.”
“The lawsuit claims that Mormon men in their 20s, who qualified for supervisory positions
after completing their two-year missions, ran the camps, which recruited minors from church
wards and scouting organizations.” And claims that one man, who was appointed camp
coordinator, branch president and stake high counselor for one of the camps, molested the
two boys from 1986 until 1989.”
“Jacob Huggard and Kyle Spray said they were molested by a coordinator who oversaw
hundreds of boys at a camp from 1986 to 1988. Both men are now living in Pleasant Grove,
Utah. According to the lawsuit filed Wednesday, the church recruited hundreds of teen boys
from Utah and southeastern Idaho to work in Maui pineapple fields in the 1970s and 1980s.
The camps closed in the 1990s.”
LDS Maui Pineapple company Lawsuit-Brian Richard Pickett
http://archive.sltrib.com/story.php?ref=/sltrib/news/57438270-78/church-lawsuit-sexual-
camps.html.csp
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Sources
- Lawsuit: Mormon church covered up sexual abuse at Hawaii camps (archive) - The Salt Lake Tribune - 23 Jan 2014
- Abuse as Teens by Church Leader on Pineapple Farm in Hawaii (archive) - Christian Post - 24 Jan 2014
- Kyle Spray, Victim (committed suicide) (archive) - YouTube - 23 Jan 2014
- Jacob Huggard, Victim (archive) - YouTube - 23 Jan 2014
LDS/Mormon church membership history
Add info | Back to topLDS mission information
The accused did not serve a full-time LDS mission.
LDS temple marriage information
FLOODLIT is not aware whether the accused was married in a Mormon temple.
Alleged victim(s)
Add info | Back to top- Number of alleged victim(s) - note if approximate:
- Average age of alleged victim(s) at time of alleged crime(s):
LDS church response(s)
Add info | Back to top- Alleged failure to report by local LDS leaders? no
- Alleged misconduct by local LDS leaders? no
- Alleged misconduct by global LDS leaders? no
FLOODLIT is not aware whether the Mormon church paid any settlement amounts related to this case.
