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Conviction Christian institutions & contexts Latter-day Saint movements Melbourne, Victoria, Australia · 2017

Australia: LDS youth leader sentenced to ten years for abusing eleven boys over twenty-five years

Record class

Core record

Evidence status

Convicted

Authority role

ward youth leader, Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (from 2005)

Organization

Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints

Spiritual nexus

For the church-era victims, the youth-leader role was the grooming instrument; the record says so, and says which victims it does not cover.

  • Pastoral or clerical authority

Evidence structure

Proceedings

  1. 2017-10-30 · guilty plea and sentence

    Victorian court, Australia. Darran Scott pleaded guilty to sixteen charges covering the sexual abuse of eleven boys across twenty-five years and was sentenced in October 2017 to ten years with a seven-year non-parole period and lifetime sex-offender registration. About six of the victims were groomed through his role as a church youth leader after his 2005 conversion; earlier victims were reached through junior football coaching.

Documented coercion mechanisms

  • grooming of boys through his church youth-leader role

Primary record

Sources

national news agency sentencing report The Salt Lake Tribune / Associated Press: sentencing report.

Wire-sourced court reporting.

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