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Brenda Miles was a Mormon church member in Bountiful, Utah.
Along with her husband Richard Miles, Brenda was accused in a civil lawsuit of child sexual abuse.
The case was overturned and dismissed with prejudice because the claims fell outside of the statute of limitations.
Sources
- Decades-old Bountiful case alleges church connection to abuse allegations
- Supreme Court rules it can’t retroactively apply law that extends statute of limitations for child sex abuse cases
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Decades-old Bountiful case alleges church connection to abuse allegations
Source type: News article
Publisher: Deseret News
Date published/accessed: 3 Oct 2018
archive 1 | archive 2Three of the plaintiffs allege that the plaintiffs' father and the Mileses were part of a group who sexually assaulted them as children when their ages ranged from newborn to 8 years old. The alleged assaults took place at "touching parties" at homes in the Mueller Park area of Bountiful, according to the complaint.
Within hours on Wednesday, the Mileses filed a motion to dismiss the lawsuit. The motion said the plaintiffs' claims are "false and horrific" and are barred by the statute of limitations.
The lawsuit included nine exhibits. Six are declarations made by the children or stepchildren. The other three are from their mothers and a psychiatrist who treated the children in 1986.
Three children allege in signed exhibits that they remember being sexually assaulted in the touching parties by their father, their paternal grandmother, the Mileses, a teenage babysitter and numerous others.
Two stepchildren say they were raped by their stepfather.
One child and one stepchild say they don't remember being assaulted but were told they were by their siblings, parents and therapists.
A seventh child provided an exhibit, but she is not listed as a plaintiff in the suit.
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back to online sources list Supreme Court rules it can’t retroactively apply law that extends statute of limitations for child sex abuse cases
Source type: News article
Publisher: Salt Lake Tribune
Date published/accessed: 12 Jun 2020
archive 1 | archive 2The Utah Supreme Court has ruled that a plaintiff’s claims in a high-profile child sex abuse lawsuit against a former federal judge aren’t valid because the claims fall outside of the statute of limitations, despite a 2016 law change meant to give alleged victims of child sex crimes more time to bring up accusations.