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LDS (Mormon) Church Abuse

Childhood sexual abuse connected to Church settings and the lasting harm that follows

What happened to you as a child was not your fault.

These are individual lawsuits, not a class action or an MDL. A federal panel declined to combine them in 2025. This page tracks what the record shows, including what the Church says in response.

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The Documented Record

These are individual lawsuits, not a class action or an MDL. The Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation denied centralization on April 3, 2025. In 2025 the Church and plaintiffs attorneys reached a confidential settlement in principle covering more than 100 California cases. The Church denies wrongdoing and has not been found liable in the cases that remain pending.

Status
Active: individual lawsuits
Venue
State and federal courts; coordination in California state court
Scale
Confidential settlement in principle covering more than 100 California cases (2025)

Source: JPML order denying transfer (Apr. 3, 2025), as reported by AboutLawsuits; KJZZ (July 31, 2025).

Investigations

What we found

Every article is based on court documents, internal company research, peer-reviewed studies, and public records.