3 LDS sex abuse cases found

criminal case is ongoing
  • LDS position: Ward executive secretary
  • Criminal case result: Ongoing
    • Kent Franklin Langston
    • Kent Langston (1951 – ) was a Mormon church member and former LDS Primary teacher in Saratoga Springs, Utah; charged on December 9, 2025 with several first-degree felonies related to child sexual abuse; accused of abusing at least eight children and one disabled adult
    • Alleged crimeAlleged crime: 1970s, 2010s, 2020s,
    • Alleged crime scenesAlleged crime city: Saratoga Springs,
    • Alleged crime scenesAlleged crime county: UT - Utah,
    • Alleged crime scenesAlleged crime state: Utah,
    • Church positionsLDS positions: Missionary, Primary, Ward executive secretary,
    • Criminal casesCriminal case(s): Ongoing, Police investigation,
      • Langston continued in the text by explaining he will spend the rest of his life in prison and then questioned whether he deserved to spend the rest of his life in prison and suggested that there’s a lot more ‘good’ that he can do
      "“I am sorry for what I’ve done. I’m so, so sorry for the pain inflicted on your beautiful, precious families. Why did it happen?...In my weakness, he told me there is no harm in a little of this and a little of that. Once the dam I built was breached, the breach grew little by little…I’m now facing 15-years-to life in prison.”"
      — Kent Langston, text message to victims’ families, according to a probable cause affidavit
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