- LDS positions: Branch president, Other leader,
- Criminal case: Never charged, Not convicted,
- Civil case: Unknown result,
Case report
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.”
Spray died by suicide in 2017.
Case facts
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- LDS mission: no
- During alleged crime/failure: Branch president, Other leader,
- During alleged crime, lived in: Hawaii,
- Victims: Multiple victims, Unknown number of victims,
- Crime years: 1980s,
- Convicted in: Never convicted,
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Case information sources
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- Lawsuit: Mormon church covered up sexual abuse at Hawaii camps
- Abuse as Teens by Church Leader on Pineapple Farm in Hawaii
- Kyle Spray, Victim (died by suicide in 2017)
- Jacob Huggard, Victim
- obituary of victim Kyle Spray, who died by suicide
Case information source details
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Lawsuit: Mormon church covered up sexual abuse at Hawaii camps
Publisher: The Salt Lake Tribune
Date: 23 Jan 2014
Archive.org
Source type: News article -
view all information sources Abuse as Teens by Church Leader on Pineapple Farm in Hawaii
Publisher: Christian Post
Date: 24 Jan 2014
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Source type: News article -
view all information sources Kyle Spray, Victim (died by suicide in 2017)
Publisher: YouTube
Date: 23 Jan 2014
Archive.org
Source type: News article - view all information sources
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view all information sources obituary of victim Kyle Spray, who died by suicide
Publisher: Legacy.com
Date: 1 Feb 2017
Archive.org
Source type: Website
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