A former missionary was arrested Thursday in Pittsburgh on accusations that he sexually abused several minors while in Tonga.

A West Valley City man was arrested Thursday on charges related to sexually exploiting minors in Tonga while working as a ...

A Utah man has been federally indicted for allegedly abusing young boys while in the Kingdom of Tonga, first as a missionary ...

A Mormon missionary accused of sexually abusing at least 14 children in Tonga was arrested on Thursday in Pittsburgh. William ...

July 28, 2025 – A former missionary was arrested on Thursday, July 24, 2025, in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, for sexually abusing minors abroad. William James Purdy, 28, of West Valley, Utah, was ...

Prosecutors say William James Purdy groomed and sexually abused multiple minor boys while serving a Latter-day Saint mission ...

A West Valley man was arrested Thursday on federal charges of sexually abusing multiple children in Tonga while he was a ...

West Valley City man indicted for sexually abusing children while a missionary in Tonga and teaching there later.

William James Purdy, 28, of West Valley, Utah, is accused of sexually abusing 14 boys before he fled Tonga as a fugitive in March 2023 and flew to Utah, according to prosecutors.

A Commonwealth Latimer House Dialogue was held in Tonga last week to help strengthen how the country’s judicial, executive ...

A new study shows that ground water levels responded to forcing by barometric pressure pulses from the 2022 Hunga Tonga-Hunga ...

LONDON -- It may take weeks to repair an undersea fiber-optic cable connecting Tonga to the rest of the world, which was severed during Saturday's massive eruption of a submarine volcano near the ...