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A survivor of sex abuse and convert to The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints explains practices implemented to protect children in the global church.

A man raped his daughter and an LDS bishop stayed silent about the assault. Arizona law allowed him to say nothing. Require clergy to report abuse.

Opinion: A bishop stays silent for years while a girl is being raped. Arizona law allowed him to do it and a key legislator wants to keep it that way.

An Arizona Superior Court judge ruled church officials who knew a church member was sexually abusing his daughter had no duty to report the abuse.

An Arizona Superior Court judge has recently dismissed a high-profile child sexual abuse lawsuit against The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

An Arizona judge has dismissed a high-profile child sexual abuse lawsuit against The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints

An Arizona judge has dismissed a high-profile child sexual abuse lawsuit against The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, ruling that church officials who knew that a church member was sexually abusing his daughter had no duty to report the abuse to police or social service agencies because the information was received during a spiritual confession. In a ruling on Friday, Cochise County Superior Court Judge Timothy Dickerson said the state’s clergy-penitent privilege excused two ...

An Arizona judge has dismissed a high-profile child sexual abuse lawsuit against The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, ruling that church officials who knew that a church member was sexually abusing his daughter had no duty to report the abuse to police or social service agencies because the information was received during a […]

Bill Maledon, the church’s attorney who handled the case, stated ‘the abuse of a child or any other individual is inexcusable.’

An Arizona judge has granted a motion by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints for summary judgment and dismissed a negligence complaint against the church in a child sex abuse case. The lawsuit, filed in 2021, accused the church and local church leaders of negligence and civil conspiracy in relation to a child sexual abuse case involving a father abusing his two daughters over several years. In the ruling issued Friday, the Cochise County Superior Court found that “Church Def...