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At 12 years old, she says she was raped repeatedly by a man working for the LDS Church Indian Student Placement Program. Today, she’s still fighting for change.

(Francisco Kjolseth | Tribune file photo) A new lawsuit alleges sexual abuse of Navajo children in the Mormon Indian Placement Program. David Clohessy, center, of the National Director of SNAP (Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests) and attorneys for a man known as L.K., a Utah resident who was abused as a kid at the ward pictured, speak on his behalf and other survivors of childhood sexual abuse from the Lamanite (Indian) Placement Program during the press event in Salt Lake on June 7, 2016. Also pictured are attorney's Billy Keeler, left, and Craig Vernon.