1638: The Mormon Abuse AP Article and The Church's Response
Mormon Stories Podcast
Dr. John Dehlin
4.6 • 5.2K Ratings
🗓️ 11 August 2022
⏱️ 199 minutes
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Summary
TRIGGER WARNING: Mentions of Sexual Assault, Rape, Child Abuse
When a father of a 5-year-old girl who was in counseling with his Mormon Bishop admitted to abusing his daughter, the Bishop followed the guidance of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and called a so-called "helpline" and he was advised by Church Lawyers to tell no one. The man continued to abuse his daughter for 7 more years and went on to assault her newborn sister. The AP has done a deep investigation into the Mormon Church's mishandling of child abuse and their article from last week has spread like wildfire.
The LDS Church has put its PR department and news media outlets on high alert and they issued an official response and at least two articles trying to respond to the egregious revelations by the Associated Press.
Join John, Gerardo, and Utah criminal defense attorney Brenton Erickson as they do a deep dive into the AP article and analyze whether the Church adequately explained the alarming allegations in the article.
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Show Notes:
- AP: Seven years of sex abuse: How Mormon officials let it happen
- AP: How Mormon church 'help line' hid child sex abuse
- Church Offers Statement on Help Line and Abuse (Response to AP)
- Deseret News Opinion: Perspective: I survived abuse. I worked for the church’s help line. The AP story broke my heart
- Church responds to AP story on abuse of a child and reporting hotline
- Spotlight Movie
- MormonLeaks 1999 Protocol for Abuse Helpline [PDF]
- Are Publicized Abuse Cases Exceptional or Representative of Our Faith?
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hello everyone and welcome to another edition of Mormon Stories podcast. I am your host |
| 0:05.4 | John Dillin. It is August 11th, 2022 and I have no voice and the reason I have no voice |
| 0:11.9 | is because I've been covering the AP story on Mormon Abuse all week and it's left me with |
| 0:17.1 | no voice. But I am not to be held back. I am undaunted. This is such an important story |
| 0:24.9 | that we've been working around the clock for the past week to prepare an entire series. |
| 0:29.3 | Yesterday we rebroadcast an episode of a thoughtful faith podcast with Dr. Gina Colvin interviewing |
| 0:36.8 | Timothy Cosnoff who is one of the world leaders in suing the Mormon Church and other churches |
| 0:42.2 | over abuse. And we, Herato and Jen and I did commentary but it was a really important |
| 0:48.8 | article kind of giving you an overview of the Mormon Church and abuse. We're going to |
| 0:54.0 | be having Timothy Cosnoff in studio tomorrow morning to both talk about the AP case and the |
| 1:02.6 | state of the Church's handling of abuse since his interview with Gina Colvin. And we're |
| 1:07.4 | also going to be talking about the boy Scouts of America class action lawsuit and it will |
| 1:11.8 | be the first time Tim's ever done kind of a high quality video audio in studio kind of |
| 1:16.9 | interview. I think anywhere. So we're really excited for tomorrow. I don't know that there's |
| 1:22.1 | any attorney in the world. I don't know of any attorney in the world who's sued the |
| 1:27.2 | Mormon Church more on behalf of sexual victims than Tim if there is one. I don't know about |
| 1:32.8 | that person. So tomorrow's going to be great. Today for this episode this afternoon we are |
| 1:39.5 | super excited to have as my writing shotgun partner, hit out of those sumano. Hey, Herato. |
| 1:46.0 | Hey, John. Herato's been a producer on many of our recent episodes and he has been a |
| 1:51.8 | co-producer on this one. Thanks for being here for sitting in Gen seat because Gen is |
| 1:57.2 | excused. She is on vacation with her family. And thanks for helping us make this happen. |
| 2:03.2 | Of course. Anything you want to say? No. I'm excited to just start reading the article. |
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