Jared Harding Wilson

Jared Harding Wilson (AKA Jared Wilson) was a Mormon church member in Raleigh, North Carolina.

Wilson was convicted in March 2011 of crimes related to sexual abuse of two children (six total counts of indecent liberties with a child, according to lawsuit).

Wilson was sentenced to two consecutive terms of 20 to 24 months in prison and five years of probation. He was released from prison in June 2015, according to his North Carolina sex offender registry listing in May 2025.

Wilson was successful in his effort to be removed from the North Carolina sex offender registry in 2025. He had been registered for at least 10 years.

In 2025, the Brigham Young University (BYU) Technology Transfer office published an interview with Wilson on its YouTube channel, where he offered business advice for startup entrepreneurs.

As of January 2026, Wilson lives in Utah. He is not a registered sex offender.

Jared Harding Wilson Child Sexual Abuse Lawsuit Information

In a lawsuit filed in June 2013 against the Mormon church in the Wake County Superior Court, plaintiff Jane Doe (the alleged victims’ mother) alleged that Wilson, referred to as “the pedophile,” “reported himself in 2008 or 2009 to Bishop Cope […] [who] informed others within the Raleigh Stake about the pedophile’s activities.” She said she had “cause to believe that the pedophile sexually battered three of her […] children.”

In a later response to the plaintiff’s interrogatories, the church said “the first time Jared confessed to any Defendant that he had engaged in sexual misconduct was in June 2010 when he confessed to Bishop Cope, in the presence of [a family member] and another Church member, that he had inappropriately touched two girls in 2007.” (p. 9, plaintiff’s memorandum in support of her motion to compel discovery.)

However, the plaintiff insisted in 2014 that “Defendants learned that Wilson was sexually interested in children and acting on that interest before this 2010 exchange.” They asserted that Wilson had told a court “that he had been confessing ‘at least two years’ before he turned himself in [in 2010].” (footnote 1, p. 9, Ibid.)

The lawsuit said Wilson held church positions that included “Ward Sunday school teacher for children ages 3-12, Ward Sunday School President, Ward Music Chairman, and Ward Missionary.”

According to the complaint, “for a period of years before Plaintiff (mother of victim) discovered that the pedophile had battered her children, the Defendants were aware that the pedophile had sexually battered one or more other children within the Raleigh Stake.”

Wilson’s stake president, Matthew Harding, went on to become an area seventy (2009) and president of the Raleigh North Carolina Temple (2023).

Harding was a named defendant in the lawsuit, along with bishop Ken Carlile and bishop Bryan Cope, both of whom were bishops of the Raleigh 4th Ward during times relevant to the suit.

Harding was an attorney who graduated from the Brigham Young University (BYU) Law School in Provo, Utah. BYU is owned and operated by the Mormon church. According to an official bio on the church’s website, Harding “previously worked as assistant general counsel for Bayer CropScience LP and as counsel for the Dow Chemical Company.”

Carlile, Cope and Harding were accused in the lawsuit of failing to report the perpetrator to civil authorities, despite alleged communication with church representatives in Salt Lake City, Utah on the church’s telephone hotline or help line for ecclesiastical leaders dealing with allegations of abuse.

Instead of reporting Wilson to police or prosecutors, church officials arranged for Wilson to be accompanied by a priesthood holder while walking the halls at church.

The plaintiff accused Harding of telling her to “forgive and forget” the sexual abuse of her children:

“After the Plaintiff’s children were abused, Stake President Harding acknowledged the extreme pain inflicted on Plaintiff and her children and apologized to the Plaintiff for not doing enough to protect her children, but told her to ‘forgive and forget.’ He told her that his ‘only hope of [the pain going away] is to encourage you to move forward or press forward in Christ and to avoid dwelling in the past.'”

The suit said, “In August 2011, Stake President Harding, concerned that the Plaintiff might insist on accountability among Defendants, met with the Plaintiff and threatened her by saying that he would report her for abusing her children so as to try to prevent her from making the Defendants accountable for the pedophile’s sexual battery of her child.”

It also alleged that, “In making that threat to the Plaintiff, Defendant Harding stated he had a ‘legal obligation to report child abuse,’ even though at no time did Harding report the pedophile’s known sexual abuse of multiple children.”

The lawsuit settled in September 2015, according to online docket information.

Floodlit is seeking copies of court documents in this case (Wake County, North Carolina civil case 13-CVS-008873-910).

Jared Harding Wilson Latter-day Saint Church Membership History

Jared H. Wilson went on a mission for the Mormon church in Antofagasta, Chile from approximately 1995 to 1997.

In 2025, Wilson reported on his personal blog that he was married in an LDS temple in 2022 and attended an endowment session in the Raleigh North Carolina LDS temple in October 2025.

Floodlit is seeking information regarding any church disciplinary actions taken against Wilson related to his 2011 conviction for crimes related to child sex abuse.