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Salt Lake Tribune
October 30, 2017
Darran Scott, 53, directed ‘Spirit of the Game,’ about LDS missionaries playing basketball in Australia.
By Sean P. Means
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An Australian filmmaker who made a movie about basketball-playing Mormon missionaries has been sentenced to 10 years in prison on charges of sexually abusing boys — some of whom he met as a leader in his local congregation of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
Darran Scott, 53, pleaded guilty to 16 charges related to the sexual abuse of 11 boys over a 25-year period, according to a report Friday by the Australian Broadcasting Company (ABC). He will serve at least seven years in prison, and will be listed on a sex-offender registry for life.
In testimony to the County Court in Morwell, in the Australian state of Victoria, Scott started grooming his victims in the early 1990s, when he was a junior football coach in the suburbs east of Melbourne. He joined the LDS Church in 2005, and reportedly lured another six boys while serving as a youth leader in his ward.
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