4 takeaways from AP’s Mormon church sex abuse investigation
Aug 4, 2022 · Paul Adams died by suicide in jail before he could stand trial on federal child pornography charges and state child sex abuse charges. Leizza Adams pleaded no contest to two counts of child abuse and served two-and-a-half years in state prison.
Mormon leaders knew Paul Adams was abusing kids. Why …
Aug 4, 2022 · The Associated Press has obtained nearly 12,000 pages of sealed records from an unrelated child sex abuse lawsuit against the Mormon church in West Virginia. The documents offer the most detailed...
Arizona sex abuse case: Church releases details, timeline - Deseret News
Aug 18, 2022 · Adams died by suicide in jail after he was arrested for child pornography for filming and distributing sexual acts with the girls. The AP story reported that Adams told his Latter-day Saint bishop in 2011 that he was abusing his 5-year-old daughter.
Court cites clergy-penitent privilege in ... - Associated Press News
On Friday, Nov. 3, 2023, an Arizona Superior Court judge 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 Paul Adams, a parishioner, was sexually abusing his daughter had no duty to report the abuse to police or social service agencies because ...
LDS Church child sex abuse case dismissed by Arizona court
Nov 8, 2023 · State authorities placed MJ in foster care after learning that her father, the late Paul Adams, sexually assaulted her and posted video of the assaults on the internet. An Arizona judge has...
Judge limits privilege defense in AZ Mormon sex abuse case
Aug 18, 2022 · Judge Laura Cardinal ruled on Aug. 8 that the late Paul Adams waived his right to keep his confessions secret when he posted videos of himself sexually abusing his two daughters on the Internet, boasted of the abuse on social media, and confessed to federal law enforcement agents, who arrested him in 2017 with no help from the church.
Arizona court upholds clergy privilege in child abuse case
Apr 11, 2023 · A lawsuit filed by child sex abuse victims accuses the church, widely known as the Mormon church, two of its bishops, and other church members of conspiracy and negligence in not reporting church...
4 takeaways from AP’s Mormon church sex abuse investigation
Aug 4, 2022 · Paul Douglas Adams, a U.S. Border Patrol employee living with his wife and six children in Bisbee, Arizona, continued abusing his daughter for as many as seven more years, and went on to...
Judge limits privilege defense in Bisbee Mormon sex abuse case
Aug 19, 2022 · Judge Laura Cardinal ruled that Paul Adams waived his right to keep his confessions secret when he posted videos of himself sexually abusing his daughters online, boasted of the abuse on...
Sex-abuse video victimizes child long after abuser is gone
Dec 23, 2022 · Months later, investigators raided the Bisbee, Arizona, home of Paul Adams, arrested him and rescued the girl in the video along with her five siblings.