1595: Mormon Church Defends Minnesota Leader of Sexual Assault

Mormon Stories Podcast

Dr. John Dehlin

Religion & Spirituality

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🗓️ 18 May 2022

⏱️ 147 minutes

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Summary

What would you think if your Church Leaders were on the defendant's witness list of your child's sex abuser? In this episode, we will discuss a disturbing Mormon sex abuse case in which the Branch and Stake presidents submitted affidavits that would have aided the dismissal of new charges brought against Elders Quorum President and registered sex offender Michael Adam Davis.

Join us this Tuesday evening as LDS Member Michael Benjamin walks us through the details of this alarming case in which The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, once again, chooses to protect the institution over sexually abused children.

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0:00.0	Hello everyone and welcome to another edition of Mormon Stories podcast. I am one of your three co-hosts for today
0:06.4	John Delin. Hi everyone. As you can see if you're watching us. I'm city here next to Jen. Hey Jen. Hey everyone.
0:13.1	It's your first time to co-host in studio one. It is. What do you think? It's great. Yeah, it's good to have you. You little setup. Yeah. Yeah. Thanks for staying late tonight.
0:22.2	So we got Jen Jen camp with us and we also have Harada with us. We'll be showing images this second and
0:28.7	we're super excited to have radio free Mormon here with us as well. This is a timely and important news story.
0:35.5	We try and cover breaking news stories within Mormonism if we feel like they're important and this is an important one.
0:41.4	The title of today's episode is Mormon leaders defend child abuser. It is May 17th, 2022 and we are here to discuss
0:51.4	yet another
0:53.2	disturbing child sex abuse case within Mormonism or the Church of Jesus Christ of Letters.
0:58.6	And I would just have to say it's almost like one of these comes out every month and this has been true for
1:04.7	five or 10 years at least. So it's the type of case Jen that I'm not like happy to do. I'm not excited to do these.
1:13.1	It's depressing and dark and sad in some ways, but how do we not cover it? Yeah, and always. Yeah.
1:21.3	Yeah, it needs to be covered because it needs to change. Yeah. I see Colby's here on the comments. Hi Colby.
1:27.9	Yeah, I'm glad you're here today too. Yeah Colby and his dear wife were on just recently as we covered their attempts to
1:36.4	build awareness within their ward and stake in Idaho about a bishop who is a sex abuser will include their story in the show notes.
1:45.4	But that's what we're here to cover today. We want to begin with a content warning.
1:50.3	We will be talking about sexual abuse and
1:53.4	and some of the discussion may be disturbing. So please either
1:58.6	10 to whoever's listening within the earshot of this episode or viewing it if you're watching it or if you yourself need to practice self-care,
2:07.4	take breaks, whatever, all the trigger warnings for the disturbing adult nature of today's content.
2:14.0	We are here to cover this story. So I'm now showing from the Star Tribune, published May 13th, 2022.
2:21.9	So just four days ago, a story with the headline former Minnesota Mormon leader convicted of sexually assaulting 13 year old boy.
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