Tribal members settle abuse cases against Mormon church

[Judi Lynn]

Source: Associated Press


Felicia Fonseca, Associated Press
Updated 5:29 pm CDT, Saturday, September 22, 2018

FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. (AP) — Four Native Americans who claimed they were sexually abused while enrolled in a now-defunct Mormon church foster program decades ago filed paperwork to dismiss their cases after reaching financial settlements, a lawyer said.

Allegations have been made against the church by more than a dozen tribal members from the Navajo Nation and Crow Tribe of Montana.

Four cases recently were settled, three were settled last year and others reached agreements out of court. One case remains in Washington state.

The terms of the latest agreements are confidential and include no admission of wrongdoing, said Craig Vernon, an attorney who represented the tribal members.

Read more: https://www.chron.com/news/crime/article/Tribal-members-settle-abuse-cases-against-Mormon-13250086.php

[Wellstone ruled]

1. This is fantastic for the victims.

[ROB-ROX]

2. MONEY DOES NOT SOLVE THIS PROBLEM

My wife is mormon and her friend is mormon. Both ran away from their mormon family because both ladies (one rises in Salt Lake, the other raised in S.F. area) had male family members who were perverted. The S.F. lady started running away at 14 to escape her male tormentor. The Salt Lake lady saved money for a bus ticket and left after graduating from high school. The mormons may be basically a good group but there are wolves among the sheep just like the rest of society. After 40 years, both ladies still talk about their bad life of not being PROTECTED from family members who were perverts. The ladies tormentors are dead and one attended his funeral to ensure he was buried so she could have a little mental satisfaction he was GONE.