As 2025 reaches its mid-way point, Floodlit.org continues to report on sexual abuse in the Mormon church.
Here is a quick summary of our work so far this year.
A summary of Floodlit’s work so far in 2025:
- Published 77 case reports (now over 4,080 published) and updated hundreds more: https://floodlit.org/accused/
- 11-part series of special reports on lawsuits against the Mormon church: https://floodlit.org/59-million/
- Breaking news that the Mormon church spent over $59 million to defend and settle a single child sex abuse lawsuit, then unsuccessfully sued insurers hoping to collect $90 million: https://floodlit.org/90-million/
- Breaking news on settlements involving over 100 concurrent sex abuse claims: https://floodlit.org/massive-settlement/
- Breaking news that the Mormon church filed an appeal after losing a civil suit against sex abuse insurers: https://floodlit.org/mormon-appeal-abuse/
- Discovery re: Mormon abuse help line call volume in 2001: https://floodlit.org/abuse-20000/
- Discovery re: what top LDS / Boy Scouts executives knew about abuse and when https://floodlit.org/26-years/
- Discovery of a 1984 lawsuit (and others) whose existence conflicts with a declaration under penalty of perjury made by the Mormon church’s risk management director: https://floodlit.org/uncovering-knowledge/
https://floodlit.org/findings-mormon-official/ - Discovery of millions (US $) in previously unreported Mormon child sex abuse lawsuit expenses and settlements: https://floodlit.org/found-million-more/
https://floodlit.org/three-more-settlements/ - Identifying a Utah man charged with child sexual abuse as the former head of the Mormon church’s prison ministry program: https://floodlit.org/doug-richens-arrested/
https://floodlit.org/a/b196/ - Investigative reporting on an alleged sex abuse coverup by the LDS church’s First Presidency: https://floodlit.org/where-letters/
- Investigative reporting showing a Mormon apostle’s son, now a Utah judge, helped a man avoid child sex abuse charges in 1989: https://floodlit.org/mormon-apostles-son-charges/
- Continuing coverage of over 200 ongoing criminal and civil cases: https://floodlit.org/criminal-result/criminal-ongoing/
https://floodlit.org/civil-result/civil-ongoing/ - Offering over 1,000 court documents to the public for free: https://floodlit.org/free-court-documents/
- Map of 750+ places where Mormon sex offenders live or perpetrated: https://floodlit.org/view-map/
- Over 150 messages of support for abuse survivors: https://lights.floodlit.org
- Over 40 survivor stories: https://survivors.floodlit.org
- Data on over 30 Mormon sex abuse settlements totaling more than $52 million: https://floodlit.org/settlements/
- Expanded timeline of sex abuse in the LDS church (over 100 events): https://floodlit.org/timeline/
- Communicated personally with over 500 abuse survivors
- Added nearly 3,000 images to the website
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