State law may allow survivors of childhood sexual abuse to pursue claims against the institutions that failed to protect them. If you experienced abuse involving a ward or branch, a bishop or other leader, a mission, seminary, scouting, or another Church youth program, you may have the right to pursue compensation.
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These cases generally involve two things. The first is the abuse itself — by a bishop, a leader, a teacher, a missionary, a scouting volunteer, or another member who had access to children through the Church.
The second is what happened when someone spoke up. Reports made to local leaders were often routed to a Church help line staffed with attorneys rather than to law enforcement. Survivors and prosecutors have argued that this practice kept abuse quiet and allowed it to continue. Courts in several states are now examining it directly.
A claim does not depend on the abuse having been reported at the time. Most were not.
The abuse happened while you were a minor, at any point from the 1950s to today.
A ward or branch, a leader or calling, a mission, seminary, scouting, or another youth program.
Where the abuse occurred and when are important, because filing windows differ by state and by year.
Most survivors do not come forward until well into adulthood, and lawmakers have caught up with that. A majority of states have extended their deadlines for childhood sexual abuse claims, and several have opened lookback windows that revive cases that were previously time-barred.
Those windows differ by state, sometimes by the year the abuse occurred, and some of them close on a fixed date. That is the single most important thing to check, and the reason not to wait on finding out.
The review above is the fastest way to see where your case stands.
Four short questions, no graphic detail required. Two or three minutes.
Your answers are reviewed against the filing rules in the state where the abuse occurred.
If it looks like you may have a claim, someone reaches out. There is no obligation and no cost.
Two or three minutes, entirely confidential. You decide what happens next.