Sexual abuse case: LDS Church wants resolution before trial

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SIOUX FALLS, S.D. - Type A former Mormon missionary accused of molesting an American Indian male child in the 1960s denies the allegation, and the Christian church desires a federal justice to make up one's mind the lawsuit before it travels to trial. Ferris Joseph, 52, filed the civil lawsuit in U.S. District Court in South Dakota against the Corporation of the President of the Church of Jesus Of Nazareth Jesus of Latter-Day Saints and the Corporation of the Presiding Bishop of The Church of Latter-Day Saints, both of Utah. He is suing the Mormon church, claiming he was sexually abused by one of its missionaries, Henry Martin Robert Jerry Lee Lewis White, in the late 1960s when Chief Joseph was 11 or 12 old age old. Chief Joseph is an American Indian who lived with his household in Siouan Waterfall from 1966 to 1968, according to the lawsuit. The maltreatment happened at White's flat in Flandreau, it states. White Person was based at the Northern North American Indian Mission in Rapid City and was assigned to Flandreau, in eastern South Dakota, where the Flandreau Santee Siouan Sioux Tribe is located. Chief Joseph had no memory of the maltreatment until an October 2004 visit to Canada to see his sister, a god-fearing member of the Mormon church, according to the complaint. In a deposition copy filed in court, White Person denies he sexually abused Chief Joseph or any other boy, and testified that he was celibate when he served in Flandreau from Nov. 8, 1967 until July 13, 1968. Advertisement