A former pastor at the troubled Tongan United Methodist Church in West Valley City, the Rev. Filimone Havili Mone, has been found guilty in a church trial of violating denominational law for failing to timely report suspected sexual abuse by a boy in the congregation.
As part of the verdict, the jury voted unanimously to terminate Mone's United Methodist membership. He retains his ordination in the Free Wesleyan Church of Tonga, an independent Methodist denomination.
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