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Philip Bussey Case Summary
Phil Bussey was an LDS church area authority seventy and mission president.
In 2025, a lawsuit against Bussey and the Mormon church said Bussey helped a convicted sex offender (Paydan Georgy Bussey) be removed from registries in Washington and Utah in order for Phil to be able to become a mission president.
Phil Bussey consulted with LDS church leaders about Paydan’s sexual misconduct and criminal case in Washington and got advice from them on “how to proceed,” according to the complaint.
In 2019, Phil Bussey invited Paydan to visit him while Phil was a mission president in Madrid, Spain.
While there, Paydan groomed and molested a small child, the lawsuit said.
The LDS church paid for Paydan’s travel to and from Spain, according to the lawsuit.
As of February 2025, Paydan was facing child sex abuse charges in ongoing cases in King County, Washington and in Utah.
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Bussey v. The Church of the Latter-Day Saints et al
Source type: Court record
Publisher: PacerMonitor
Date published/accessed: 4 Feb 2025
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Source type: Website
Publisher: FLOODLIT
Date published/accessed: 4 Feb 2025
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