6 LDS sex abuse cases found

  • Crime county: Washington
    • Parker Trent Kingston
    • Parker Trent Kingston
      • "Kingston found himself turning to God for guidance.“I’d always just get down and pray, like, ‘Please help me. Please lead me in a direction that I need to go and I just kept feeling like I needed to stay,” he said.“Alright, I need to go somewhere because we got all the receivers coming back. I’m going to be in the same position,” Kingston recalled thinking at the time.After praying, the receiver decided to stay in Provo another season.He thought, “‘No, I got to stay. Everything’s going to work out.’”“And it did. This year I had the best year of my life, and I wouldn’t have had this much success if I had left and went somewhere else,” Kingston said.[...] “Once I went through the temple, I was like, ‘Yeah, this is what all, everything I did this year — scoring touchdowns, catching passes — that was the best moment of my 2025 right there.’"[...] “I just prayed for like an open mind, a clear mind to help me be the best individual and person that I can be on and off the field,” he said. “I pray for that every day, just giving me opportunities to be a light on other people and use my platform to inspire kids. I just kept praying for that open mind, ‘Give me health, give me strength,’ and it came to light.”"
      — Parker Kingston, reflecting on his 2025 year, "BYU’s Parker Kingston talks faith, trusting God on ‘Faith Huddle’", Deseret News 2026-01-21
    • Parker Kingston (2004 – ) was a Mormon church member and football player for BYU; arrested and charged with rape February 2026; case is ongoing as of February 2026
    • Criminal casesCriminal case(s): Ongoing,
    • Church actionAlleged church actions: Unknown church action,
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    • Michael Nelson Kleiner
      • "The investigation began June 24 as part of an operation led by the Internet Crimes Against Children Task Force in Utah County, according to a probable cause affidavit.Agents were working in an anonymous online chat room when a suspect began communicating with a decoy posing as a 17-year-old girl.Shortly after initial contact, the suspect allegedly moved the conversation to another unregulated platform, where he sent nude photos and sexually explicit videos and requested similar images in return. [...]During the investigation, agents discovered Kleiner was also communicating with another undercover officer in West Jordan posing as a 15-year-old. In that exchange, which began June 2, the suspect again allegedly sent explicit messages and images and made plans to meet in the Salt Lake City area but failed to show up on three occasions."
      — "Snow Canyon Middle School teacher arrested for alleged sexual exploitation of minor", St. George News, July 10, 2026
      June 24, 2026, He allegedly admitted to being attracted to younger girls and told the decoy the encounter was his “first time.” P.C. Affidavit, Michael Kleiner
    • Michael Kleiner (1994 – ) was a Mormon church member in Ivins, Utah; arrested on July 8, 2026 and charged with criminal solicitation of a minor (first-degree felony), 10 counts of distributing harmful material to a minor-actor 18+ (third-degree felony) and one count of enticing a minor (class A misdemeanor; took part of two sting ops thought he was chatting with two different minors one in St. George and West Jordan police
    • Church positionsPositions: Bishopric counselor, Stake clerk,
    • Criminal casesCriminal case(s): Ongoing,
    • Church actionAlleged church actions: unknown,
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