Australia: LDS youth leader sentenced to ten years for abusing eleven boys over twenty-five years
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Convicted
Authority role
ward youth leader, Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (from 2005)
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Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
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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.
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Proceedings
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
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- national news agency sentencing report The Salt Lake Tribune / Associated Press: sentencing report.
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