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.
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Sick.
Crows find food (body).
I didn’t think Pittsburgh was in that bad a shape the mormons needed to send missionaries there.
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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.
I think in Tonga they either throw him in a volcano or feed him to black tipped reef sharks.
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.
Dump the carcass in a remote field; maggots and buzzards gotta eat, too.
Yes, the media never harps on the other two big demographics that commit this kind of abomination: Teachers and cops. And especially politicians.
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.
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