A FLOODLIT case timeline, an independent nonprofit journalism project documenting institutional child sex abuse cases, tracking a West Virginia lawsuit brought by six families of nine children against The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. It records the accused, a young ward missionary, sentenced in July 2013 to 35 to 75 years after a February 2013 conviction; a five-year legal process that reached the West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals; and a mid-trial settlement on 30 March 2018 of 32 million dollars, releasing the defendants from all claims, reported as the largest known abuse-related payout tied to the church at the time, after the church itself had already spent an estimated 27 million dollars on its own legal defense.
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Reliability Tier2
Reliability tier 2: an independent nonprofit journalism project specializing in institutional abuse cases, giving the settlement date, amount and prior legal-fee figure, corroborated by WHSV's independent contemporaneous broadcast coverage of the same settlement. NotesTier 2: the source for the six-family, nine-child plaintiff count, the conviction and sentencing dates, and the settlement's 32 million dollar figure, cross checked against WHSV's independent broadcast reporting.
Citation
PublisherFLOODLIT
URLhttps://floodlit.org/a/a183/
Source Typejournalism
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This source names West Virginia directly: "child sex abuse cases, tracking a West Virginia lawsuit brought by six families of nine children against The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints."
Claims Backed By This Source (16 claims)
This source backs 16 claims across the atlas. As facts: 13 well-attested. As cited relationships: 1 holds, 1 connected. Plus 1 entities citing it as a general reference with no single fact or relationship attached.
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- Abuse Inquiries and Response Policies, 8 claims: 7 well-attested, 1 general references.
- Sources, 7 claims: 6 well-attested, 1 holds.
- Denominations, 1 claims: 1 connected.
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13Abuse Inquiries and Response Policies
General References
1Abuse Inquiries and Response Policies
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