Editing Mormon abuse cases (section)

===2010s===
* In March 2010, former LDS Church bishop Lon Kennard Sr. was charged with 43 felony counts of sex abuse and [[sexual exploitation of children]], and was imprisoned in [[Wasatch County, Utah]]. In November 2011, Kennard was sentenced to three terms of five-years-to-life in prison to be served consecutively, after pleading guilty to three first-degree [[felony]] counts of aggravated sex abuse of a child for sexually abusing his daughters.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://archive.sltrib.com/article.php?id=17798173&itype=storyID|title= Children's charity co-founder sentenced in sex abuse case|work=[[Salt Lake Tribune]]|date=November 3, 2011}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.ksl.com/?nid=960&sid=17927418|title=Heber charity co-founder sent to prison for sexually abusing daughters|work=[[KSL (radio)|KSL]]|date=November 3, 2011}}</ref>
* In December 2013, LDS Church bishop  Todd Michael Edwards was sentenced to three years in prison for molesting two teenage girls who attended his congregation in [[Menifee, California]]. Edwards received two concurrent sentences of three years in prison for two felony counts of [[sexual battery]] and [[sexual penetration]] with a foreign object. A felony charge of [[witness intimidation]] was dismissed as part of a [[Plea bargaining in the United States|plea bargain]] with prosecutors after Edwards pleaded not guilty.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.pe.com/articles/years-682566-three-felony.html|title=MENIFEE: Mormon bishop sentenced to three years for sex abuse|work=[[The Press-Enterprise]]|date=December 11, 2013|access-date=March 1, 2016|archive-date=March 7, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160307014125/http://www.pe.com/articles/years-682566-three-felony.html|url-status=dead}}</ref>
* In January 2014, two men filed a [[lawsuit]] in the U.S. state of [[Hawaii]] against the LDS Church, alleging that they were sexually abused as children on a church-owned pineapple farm in [[Maui]] from 1986 through 1988.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.christianpost.com/news/two-men-file-lawsuit-against-mormon-church-alleging-sexual-abuse-as-teens-by-church-leader-on-pineapple-farm-in-hawaii-113351/|title=Two Men File Lawsuit Against Mormon Church Alleging Sexual Abuse as Teens by Church Leader on Pineapple Farm in Hawaii|work=[[The Christian Post]]|date=January 24, 2014}}</ref>
* In January 2014, former LDS Church bishop Michael Wayne Coleman was arrested and charged with luring a minor for sexual exploitation after a forensic examination of his [[laptop]] and [[cellphone]] revealed sexually graphic conversations and an exchange of nude photographs with a teenaged student in Brazil.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2014/01/24/mormon-bishop-sex-crime/4829127/|title=Former Mormon bishop accused of trying to lure teens|work=[[USA Today]]|date=January 24, 2014}}</ref>
* In September 2016, former LDS Church bishop John Goodrich was arrested and charged with sexually abusing his daughter when she was a child. Shortly before his arrest, Goodrich had [[Confession (religion)#Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints|spiritually confessed]] to the local bishop and had quickly been excommunicated. However, prosecutors dropped the charges the next year because the bishop would not testify due to Idaho's [[Priest–penitent privilege|clergy-penitent privilege]]. Goodrich's daughter and wife signed a [[non-disclosure agreement]] (NDA) with the LDS Church. As part of the agreement they would receive a $300,000 settlement but agree to not sue the church and to destroy their recordings of the meetings with the church attorney; the agreement did not prevent them from telling their story to media. Recordings by another person, who had been present at the meetings but who was not part of the NDA, were shared with and reported on by the Associated Press in December 2023.<ref name=Rytting>{{cite news|url=https://apnews.com/article/mormon-church-investigation-child-sex-abuse-9c301f750725c0f06344f948690caf16|title=Recordings show how the Mormon church protects itself from child sex abuse claims|first1=Michael|last1=Rezendes|first2=Jason|last2=Dearen|publisher=Associated Press|date=December 12, 2023|accessdate=January 23, 2024}}</ref> 
*In August 2017, former LDS Church bishop Erik Hughes pleaded guilty to sexually abusing two teenage boys from his congregation in Mapleton, Utah. The abuse occurred in June 2014 during his tenure as bishop. Hughes received concurrent 1–15 year prison sentences on the sexual abuse counts, and 0–5 years in prison for witness tampering.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.sltrib.com/news/2017/10/10/utah-judge-sends-former-mormon-bishop-to-prison-for-sexually-abusing-boys-in-his-congregation/|title=Utah judge sends former Mormon bishop to prison for sexually abusing boys in his congregation|work=The Salt Lake Tribune|access-date=2018-08-21}}</ref>
* On August 15, 2017, [[MormonLeaks]] published a 316-page document which contained confirmed and alleged instances of [[child sexual abuse]] between 1959 and 2017.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://mormonleaks.io/wiki/index.php?title=File:INSTANCES_OF_CHILD_SEXUAL_ABUSE_ALLEGEDLY_PERPETRATED_BY_MEMBERS_OF_THE_CHURCH_OF_JESUS_CHRIST_OF_LATTER-DAY_SAINTS-2017-06.pdf|title=Instances of child sexual abuse allegedly perpetrated by members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints|work=[[MormonLeaks]]|date=August 15, 2017}}</ref>
* On October 30, 2017, an Australian court sentenced Darran Scott to 10 years in prison for sexually abusing boys, some of whom he met as a Mormon leader.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.sltrib.com/news/2017/10/30/australian-filmmaker-gets-10-year-sentence-for-sexually-abusing-boys-some-of-whom-he-met-as-a-mormon-leader/|title=Australian filmmaker gets 10-year sentence for sexually abusing boys, some of whom he met as a Mormon leader|work=[[Salt Lake Tribune]]|date=October 30, 2017}}</ref>
* [[Rob Porter]] resigned from his White House job in February 2018 after evidence of domestic abuse became public. According to Jana Riess of the Religion News Service, Porter's second wife said she was discouraged from filing for a restraining order by her bishop because of the effect it would have on his career.<ref name="onpoint">{{cite news |url=https://www.wbur.org/onpoint/2023/01/31/the-mormon-women-standing-up-against-abuse-in-the-lds-church |title=Mormon women confront power and patriarchy in the LDS church |date=January 31, 2023 |author1=Claire Donnelly |author2=Meghna Chakrabarti |author3=Tim Skoog |work=On Point |publisher=[[WBUR]]}}</ref>