Questions cloud Mormon church handling of suburban congregation’s ex-leader accused of abusing minors
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A member of a prominent Mormon family who was arrested in Utah in recent months on child exploitation charges previously lived in the Chicago area and for many years attended a congregation in the far northwest suburbs — where he’s accused of abusing other minors.
Questions are now being raised about whether local — or even national — Mormon leaders knew of that abuse but kept it secret, failing to tell police and providing cover that allowed child abuse to perpetuate.
Wade Christofferson, who is in his early 70s, was arrested in November, charged with sexual exploitation crimes against minors and accused in court records of molesting an Ohio child 15 to 20 times.
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