UTAH
Fox 13
BY BEN WINSLOW
SALT LAKE CITY — A fourth person has now come forward, alleging they were sexually abused while participating in a program run by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints for Native American children.
The lawsuit, filed Tuesday in Navajo Nation Tribal Court, accuses the LDS Church of not reporting the abuse to the proper authorities.
“This can’t be swept under the rug,” the man, identified in court papers as “LK,” told FOX 13.
LK claims in court papers that he was taken from his home on the Navajo Nation as a child, baptized into the Mormon faith, and placed with a host family under a program the church ran called the “Lamanite Placement Program.” Also known as the “Indian Placement Program,” the lawsuit claims it was “the LDS Church’s desire to convert Native American or ‘Lamanite’ children and assimilate them into their culture reflects teachings in the Book of Mormon, a book of canonized scripture unique to the Mormon religion.”
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