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Utah Mormon missionary is arrested for giving little boys toys and food in exchange for sexual favors
Daily Mail UK ^ | July 27, 2025 | Noa Halff

Posted on 07/27/2025 10:05:25 AM PDT by Morgana

A former Mormon missionary has been arrested in Pittsburgh for allegedly sexually abusing at least 14 young boys while serving in Tonga before attempting to escape justice by fleeing the country using a fake identity.

William James Purdy, 28, of West Valley, Utah, was taken into custody Thursday following a federal indictment handed down July 16, the Department of Justice announced.

Purdy allegedly lured boys into his apartment with gifts including electronic devices, toys, food and money - before exploiting them for sexual exchanges.

Purdy first traveled to the Pacific Island nation in 2017 to serve his mission with The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

But instead of spreading his mission, Prosecutors claim he groomed and sexually abused multiple underage boys over the course of several years,

After his mission ended, Purdy returned to Tonga in 2019 to work as a teacher in the capital city of Nuku'alofa.

Investigators say that this is when the abuse intensified.

Some of the children he tutored and even lived with him, authorities said.

(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Other Christian
KEYWORDS: childbuse; children; utah

1 posted on 07/27/2025 10:05:25 AM PDT by Morgana
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To: Morgana

Sick.


2 posted on 07/27/2025 10:10:03 AM PDT by No name given ( Anonymous is who you’ll know me as)
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To: Morgana

Find a tall tree
and 'decorate' it...



3 posted on 07/27/2025 10:21:13 AM PDT by Carriage Hill (A society grows great when old men plant trees, in whose shade they know they will never sit.)
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To: Carriage Hill
Arrested??? Hell, arrange a burial service.
4 posted on 07/27/2025 11:03:48 AM PDT by budj (Combat Vet, second of three generations.)
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To: Morgana

Crows find food (body).


5 posted on 07/27/2025 11:33:14 AM PDT by Vaduz
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To: Morgana

I didn’t think Pittsburgh was in that bad a shape the mormons needed to send missionaries there.

wy69


6 posted on 07/27/2025 12:01:18 PM PDT by whitney69
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To: whitney69
The headline could just had easily had said

School teacher is arrested for giving little boys toys and food in exchange for sexual favors

Then you would have to read the article to discover he was actually a FORMER school teacher.

Mormons are kind of like Jooze and Catholic Priests. The media should never miss an opportunity to hate on them.

7 posted on 07/27/2025 12:17:25 PM PDT by Vigilanteman (The politicized state destroys many aspects of civil society, human kindness and private charity.)
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To: budj

I think in Tonga they either throw him in a volcano or feed him to black tipped reef sharks.


8 posted on 07/27/2025 12:24:25 PM PDT by packagingguy
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To: whitney69

Two elders came to our front door yesterday, wanting to talk to me about God.

I told them I wasn’t interested, and they moved along. Today we have some 100+ degree “heat index”. so hope they are not out again today (probably not, being Sunday). They had on white dress shirts and ties.


9 posted on 07/27/2025 12:26:45 PM PDT by NEMDF
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To: budj

Dump the carcass in a remote field; maggots and buzzards gotta eat, too.


10 posted on 07/27/2025 2:45:29 PM PDT by Carriage Hill (A society grows great when old men plant trees, in whose shade they know they will never sit.)
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To: Vigilanteman
School teacher is arrested for giving little boys toys and food in exchange for sexual favors

Yes, the media never harps on the other two big demographics that commit this kind of abomination: Teachers and cops. And especially politicians.

11 posted on 07/27/2025 2:49:19 PM PDT by Sirius Lee ("Never argue with a fool, onlookers may not be able to tell the difference.”)
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To: Morgana

Joseph Smith did a bunch of stuff that added up to a violent end for him, including underage women, but there is no indication he liked little boys.


12 posted on 07/27/2025 6:42:46 PM PDT by lurk (u)
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