Brother of LDS apostle (Christofferson) charged with attempting to sexually exploit children in Utah and Ohio

[Equality]

Something more troubling I saw someone comment, if we take the church’s statement at face value that Wade got no special help from his familial relation. It just goes to show the church will happily rebaptize and remove the annotation for any old child sex abuser.

So what’s worse special treatment for one, or a general policy of child sex abusers can easily get back into a position to abuse more children?

This is a bit like the church digging up records to contradict Beau Oyler’s claim, records they have sworn to the court do not exist as a matter of practice and policy.

LDS Church: No special treatment for Mormon royalty. No siree, uh-uh, no way José! We cover up the sexual-abuse history of all our church pedos whether they be librarians, primary school teachers, Bishops, or brothers of apostles, for truly God is no respecter of persons. We are equal-opportunity whitewashers.

[Tom]

The Salt Lake Tribune reported today that a new accuser of Wade Christofferson has stepped forward.

Five months after Wade Christofferson was charged with attempting to sexually exploit a Utah child, a woman has stepped forward to publicly disclose that, as a young teenager decades ago, she reported to a Latter-day Saint bishop that Christofferson had sexually abused her.

At the time of her report, she and Christofferson — a brother of a now high-ranking Latter-day Saint apostle — attended the same congregation in Illinois. Speaking at an April 17 event held at Harvard Divinity School, Kristin Dunbar Mautz, now 48, said, “I did what I thought I should do.”

“I went to my bishop,” she said at the symposium on religious trauma. “I reported it. I was a child expecting safety, expecting protection.”

The adults, she thought, would decide what the consequences should be, caution others, set things right.

“Instead, I was given a punishment,” Mautz said. “I was forced to sit in that congregation Sunday after Sunday and watch him … sitting up on the stand, serving in the bishopric, a position of honor and trust.”

That’s the church’s gold standard approach in action.

The Tribune article continues:

In a statement to The Salt Lake Tribune, a spokesperson for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints said that Wade Christofferson was excommunicated more than 30 years ago. He was then rebaptized before again serving, “for a brief time,” as a member of a bishopric, this time in Ohio.

What does the unnamed spokesperson mean by “a brief time”? It’s not clear. According to Floodlit’s timeline, however, Christofferson served as second counselor in a young single adult ward bishopric from 2006 to 2011. He then served as first counselor in two bishoprics from 2016 to 2019. If the timeline is accurate, Christofferson served as a member of a bishopric for anywhere from about six years to ten years. That’s apparently “a brief time” in churchspeak.

The Tribune notes that federal prosecutors recently argued that they possess evidence that “reflects additional victims at church where [Christofferson] held leadership roles. … Other alleged conduct includes sexual assault of very young children.” A federal magistrate ruled last week that Christofferson should remain in custody.

The Tribune quotes the church statement as saying that when Todd Christofferson learned “late last year” of allegations of recent child abuse by his brother, he “reported it to legal authorities within hours.” Mark it down. Did Todd Christofferson, in fact, report within hours? How many?

[Marcus]

The Salt Lake Tribune reported today that a new accuser of Wade Christofferson has stepped forward.

Five months after Wade Christofferson was charged with attempting to sexually exploit a Utah child, a woman has stepped forward to publicly disclose that, as a young teenager decades ago, she reported to a Latter-day Saint bishop that Christofferson had sexually abused her.

At the time of her report, she and Christofferson — a brother of a now high-ranking Latter-day Saint apostle — attended the same congregation in Illinois. Speaking at an April 17 event held at Harvard Divinity School, Kristin Dunbar Mautz, now 48, said, “I did what I thought I should do.”

“I went to my bishop,” she said at the symposium on religious trauma. “I reported it. I was a child expecting safety, expecting protection.”

The adults, she thought, would decide what the consequences should be, caution others, set things right.

“Instead, I was given a punishment,” Mautz said. “I was forced to sit in that congregation Sunday after Sunday and watch him … sitting up on the stand, serving in the bishopric, a position of honor and trust.”

That’s the church’s gold standard approach in action.

The Tribune article continues:

In a statement to The Salt Lake Tribune, a spokesperson for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints said that Wade Christofferson was excommunicated more than 30 years ago. He was then rebaptized before again serving, “for a brief time,” as a member of a bishopric, this time in Ohio.

What does the unnamed spokesperson mean by “a brief time”? It’s not clear. According to Floodlit’s timeline, however, Christofferson served as second counselor in a young single adult ward bishopric from 2006 to 2011. He then served as first counselor in two bishoprics from 2016 to 2019. If the timeline is accurate, Christofferson served as a member of a bishopric for anywhere from about six years to ten years. That’s apparently “a brief time” in churchspeak.

The Tribune notes that federal prosecutors recently argued that they possess evidence that “reflects additional victims at church where [Christofferson] held leadership roles. … Other alleged conduct includes sexual assault of very young children.” A federal magistrate ruled last week that Christofferson should remain in custody.

The Tribune quotes the church statement as saying that when Todd Christofferson learned “late last year” of allegations of recent child abuse by his brother, he “reported it to legal authorities within hours.” Mark it down. Did Todd Christofferson, in fact, report within hours? How many?

Thanks for the update, Tom. You know what's really horrifying? Do you think they put him in a bishopric of a ysa ward at first, because they thought the women there were safe because they were older than his preference?

[I Have Questions]

The Salt Lake Tribune reported today that a new accuser of Wade Christofferson has stepped forward.

Five months after Wade Christofferson was charged with attempting to sexually exploit a Utah child, a woman has stepped forward to publicly disclose that, as a young teenager decades ago, she reported to a Latter-day Saint bishop that Christofferson had sexually abused her.

At the time of her report, she and Christofferson — a brother of a now high-ranking Latter-day Saint apostle — attended the same congregation in Illinois. Speaking at an April 17 event held at Harvard Divinity School, Kristin Dunbar Mautz, now 48, said, “I did what I thought I should do.”

“I went to my bishop,” she said at the symposium on religious trauma. “I reported it. I was a child expecting safety, expecting protection.”

The adults, she thought, would decide what the consequences should be, caution others, set things right.

“Instead, I was given a punishment,” Mautz said. “I was forced to sit in that congregation Sunday after Sunday and watch him … sitting up on the stand, serving in the bishopric, a position of honor and trust.”

That’s the church’s gold standard approach in action.

The Tribune article continues:

In a statement to The Salt Lake Tribune, a spokesperson for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints said that Wade Christofferson was excommunicated more than 30 years ago. He was then rebaptized before again serving, “for a brief time,” as a member of a bishopric, this time in Ohio.

What does the unnamed spokesperson mean by “a brief time”? It’s not clear. According to Floodlit’s timeline, however, Christofferson served as second counselor in a young single adult ward bishopric from 2006 to 2011. He then served as first counselor in two bishoprics from 2016 to 2019. If the timeline is accurate, Christofferson served as a member of a bishopric for anywhere from about six years to ten years. That’s apparently “a brief time” in churchspeak.

The Tribune notes that federal prosecutors recently argued that they possess evidence that “reflects additional victims at church where [Christofferson] held leadership roles. … Other alleged conduct includes sexual assault of very young children.” A federal magistrate ruled last week that Christofferson should remain in custody.

The Tribune quotes the church statement as saying that when Todd Christofferson learned “late last year” of allegations of recent child abuse by his brother, he “reported it to legal authorities within hours.” Mark it down. Did Todd Christofferson, in fact, report within hours? How many?

Todd Christofferson has a track record of not reporting. Floodlit [/url=https://floodlit.org/a/b428/]reports[/url]

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Mormon apostle D. Todd Christofferson learned in around 2020 that his brother Wade Christofferson allegedly sexually abused multiple children between the late 1980s and early 1990s, but Todd did not report the alleged abuse to law enforcement. In March 2026, a church spokesman said Todd “respected the adult victims’ wishes not to involve law enforcement at that time.”[/quote]Todd, in 2020, did not seem to be prompted to fully ascertain how many victims there were. Clearly there were plenty that would have wanted him to contact the police on their behalf. Mautz for one. Todd is complicit in covering up child abuse.