1168: Accused Voyeur/Bishop Steven Murdock: A Case Study in How the Mormon Church Ignores/Covers up Abusive Behavior, Leaving Future Victims Vulnerable
Mormon Stories Podcast
Dr. John Dehlin
4.5 • 5.7K Ratings
🗓️ 22 August 2019
⏱️ 102 minutes
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SUMMARY: While I am pleased to finally see extensive news coverage of Mormon Bishop/Stake High Councilman Steven Murdock’s voyeurism story, I feel strongly that the reporters are missing the most important part of this story: basically, that Mormon church leadership explicitly knew of Bishop Murdock’s history of sexual harassment as early as 2017, but chose to ignore the reports, kept him in as bishop for several months after the firing, and eventually “promoted” Steven Murdock to the Stake High Council in spite of at least three different direct reports regarding his pattern of behavior.
The following report comes from personal interviews with over 20 individuals who have personal relationships with Steven Murdock, either as friends, co-workers, neighbors, or ward/stake members.
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| 0:59.2 | Hello everyone and welcome to another edition of mormas Stories podcast. |
| 1:14.8 | I am your host as always Dr. John D'Alene. |
| 1:17.9 | It is August 21st, 2019 and today we have kind of a really sobering, probably very |
| 1:27.8 | disturbing but very important topic that we need to address. |
| 1:33.8 | So I'll just jump right into it. |
| 1:36.2 | Some of you may or may not know that last week mormas Bishop and current Stake High |
| 1:43.6 | Councilman from Holiday Utah by the name of Stephen Murdoch was caught in a Tennessee |
| 1:52.9 | mall in a closed store, taking pictures of a woman who was on dressing there. |
| 2:02.1 | This is a national Tennessee. |
| 2:04.1 | The woman is named Alondra Alcala. |
| 2:08.3 | The woman looked up and saw the phone in the camera peeking up over her dressing stall |
| 2:14.8 | and she confronted Bishop Stephen Murdoch and Stake High Councilor Stephen Murdoch. |
| 2:20.9 | He ended up slapping the phone out of his hands running to mall security and charging |
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