1640: Boy Scout Abuse and the Mormon Church with Attorney Tim Kosnoff
Mormon Stories Podcast
Dr. John Dehlin
4.6 • 5.2K Ratings
🗓️ 12 August 2022
⏱️ 137 minutes
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Summary
TRIGGER WARNING: Mentions of Sexual Assault, Rape, Child Abuse
Join John and Gerardo as they interview attorney Tim Kosnoff about the relationship between the Boy Scouts of America abuse epidemic and the Mormon church.
Tim Kosnoff is a US attorney who has spent the last two decades representing victims of abuse.
His introduction to the LDS Church and their lawyers was when he represented Jeremiah Scott who was sexually abused by a serial paedophile Frank Curtis. His work, in this case, appears in Lisa Davis’ legal thriller, The Sins of Brother Curtis. This case has led to a practice in which he has come to represent over 150 Mormon abuse victims bringing him face to face with the Mormon law machine repeatedly.
Tim Kosnoff:
People can reach my office at 206.785.7326
https://www.kosnoff.com https://twitter.com/SexAbuseAttys
https://abusedinscouting.com/
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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
- Abused in Scouting (Tim’s legal efforts)
- The Sins of Brother Curtis
- Spotlight Movie
- Scouts Honor - Sexual Abuse and the BSA
- The Three R’s - Recognize, Review, and Report (BSA Abuse training)
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hello everyone and welcome back to another episode of Mormon Stories podcast. I'm your host John |
| 0:04.7 | Delin. It's August 12th, 2022. We are here in studio with Harado. Hey, Rado. Hey John. You tired yet? No. |
| 0:12.3 | I'm ready to keep going. We are smack dab in the middle or late middle of what we hope is an epic |
| 0:20.2 | series on abuse in the Mormon church. It was kicked off this round. We've covered this for years |
| 0:25.6 | and years and years, but the most recent round of discussion started from an associated press article |
| 0:31.6 | that was released last week about a case in Arizona that also referenced the case in West Virginia and |
| 0:37.3 | even a Spiris case in Oregon. But I guess Mormon sexual abuse and the Mormon church sexual abuse |
| 0:43.8 | hotline is in the news again. And because all of a sudden that makes a lot of people care about it, |
| 0:48.7 | we decided to jump in and really do some deep dives in ways that we never have before because |
| 0:54.4 | these are super important issues that affect thousands, if not tens of thousands of Mormons, |
| 0:58.8 | past, present and future because abuse seems to be way too common within the Mormon context. And so |
| 1:06.6 | we're reporting on it. We have already done an intro episode sharing an episode with Gina Colvin |
| 1:12.0 | and attorney Tim Cosnough kind of about the history of the Mormon church and sexual abuse litigation. |
| 1:18.1 | We also interviewed a new friend of ours, Brenton, an attorney here in Utah where we kind of dug |
| 1:24.5 | deep into the hotline and the AP article, the AP story in Arizona and the church's response. We |
| 1:29.9 | dug into that yesterday. Today we spent two or three wonderful hours with attorney Tim Cosnough |
| 1:36.7 | talking about the history of the hotline and his experience litigating sexual abuse cases within |
| 1:42.4 | Mormonism that we consider Tim to be a legend over the past several decades as one of the world's |
| 1:48.4 | leaders in litigating against religions and specifically the Mormon church and the Catholic church |
| 1:53.5 | and the Boy Scouts of America as it relates to sexual abuse and cover-ups. And so Tim, we're so thrilled |
| 2:00.1 | to have you back for the second part today on Mormon stories. Welcome back. Thank you. Thank you for |
| 2:04.6 | having me. Yeah. And we decided that for the second part of our interview with Tim today, we were |
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