BOISE, Idaho (AP) — A federal judge says he’s inclined to dismiss many of the claims in a lawsuit against the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints made by a man who said the church didn’t do enough to stop a Boy Scout troop leader from sexually abusing children.
U.S. District Judge David O. Carter gave a tentative ruling Tuesday, saying he would likely dismiss most of the claims the man, identified in the lawsuit only as Tom Doe, brought against the Mormon church. But Carter also said he may allow Doe’s fraud claim to move forward in court.
Doe and his attorney, Kelly Clark, filed the lawsuit against the Boy Scouts of America, the Boy Scouts Ore-Ida Council and the LDS Church in 2008. They allege the leader of his Nampa, Idaho Boy Scout troop sexually abused Doe for about three years in both Oregon and Idaho starting in 1967.
