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The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints did nothing to protect children from sexual abuse while they were enrolled in a program to "convert and assimilate" students, according to a lawsuit filed last week.
Siblings RJ and MM - the court does not identify alleged victims of sexual abuse—left their home at ages 10 and 11, respectively, to be part of the Mormon church’s Student Placement Program, a controversial voluntary foster care initiative that baptized some 40,000 children and brought them to live with white Mormon families during the school year.
During his year in the program, RJ was sexually molested by members of his foster family.
When he told an LDS Social Services caseworker, a paid employee tasked with overseeing the safety and well-being of children in their new homes, RJ was moved to another foster family. But the abuse continued, both for him and for his older sister, MM. MM was raped by a friend of her foster family and later molested by her foster father.
No criminal charges were filed.
The complaint alleges that the Mormon church “failed to take reasonable steps and failed to implement reasonable safeguards to avoid acts of unlawful sexual conduct in the future by certain foster family members.”
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2016/04/06/lawsuit-mormons-sexually-abused-navajo-foster-children.html