1644: Mormon Church Discouraging Sex Abuse Victims from Reporting - Survivor Stories
Mormon Stories Podcast
Dr. John Dehlin
4.6 • 5.2K Ratings
🗓️ 19 August 2022
⏱️ 168 minutes
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Summary
TRIGGER WARNING: Mentions of Sexual Assault, Rape, Child Abuse
In light of the recent Associated Press article about the Mormon church abuse hotline, we decided to ask our podcast listeners if any of them had ever been discouraged by Mormon leadership from reporting abuse to the police. Hundreds of listeners responded with concrete, and heart-wrenching examples. In Friday's episode, John and Jenn will be reading many of the accounts (scrubbed of identifying information), so as to highlight the longstanding and ongoing problem of abuse cases NOT being reported to police within the Mormon church.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello everyone and welcome to another edition of Mormon Stories Podcast. I am one of your two hosts for today, John Delin. |
| 0:08.0 | It is August 19th, 2022 and we are holding kind of a sobering, not fun, hard and kind of sad episode on Mormon Stories Podcast. |
| 0:22.0 | Today we are going to be sharing stories of the LDS Church or the Mormon Church's leadership, |
| 0:32.0 | mishandling abuse, as shared by members or ex-members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, |
| 0:40.0 | told in their own words. That's kind of an introduction for today. |
| 0:46.0 | I am super grateful to be joined in studio by co-host and producer of today's episode, Jen Camp. Hey Jen. |
| 0:56.0 | Hey, hi everyone. Thanks for being here. |
| 1:00.0 | Yeah, not a fun topic. |
| 1:03.0 | No, no, it's been, we've been covering this for a couple weeks now and this one is the heaviest, |
| 1:13.0 | mardy and sir crane. The heaviest for my heart, but it's been a long time pulling everything together, |
| 1:23.0 | but it's been really heavy and disturbing but very important. |
| 1:31.0 | So I think in this episode today, I don't know, there's something about it that makes everything else that we've been talking about the last two weeks, very real. |
| 1:41.0 | And that just connects you with it and makes it more personal to have laws changed and ways within the Mormon Church hopefully changed when they're heard. |
| 1:55.0 | Yeah. |
| 1:58.0 | Yeah. And when I say Jen's the producer, she's been heavily behind the show prep for today. |
| 2:05.0 | I've been pitching in. We've also had a little bit of help from staff. So again, thanks for helping make this happen, Jen. |
| 2:12.0 | To get people a background of what we're going to do today, here's how it's going to roll. First of all, we're going to give some disclaimers. |
| 2:19.0 | We're going to be talking today about several unpleasant things, including assault, rape, abuse, violence and suicidality. |
| 2:29.0 | So please make sure and take care of yourself, self-care, engage in this in this episode only is your mental health and your, you know, faculties allow and also be mindful of who else is going to be listening or viewing. |
| 2:46.0 | We will be sharing from, I don't know, some like 300 different accounts of people who experienced the mishandling of abuse within a Mormon context. |
| 2:56.0 | We could not possibly have included all the stories that we received. Then right Jen? |
| 3:02.0 | Yeah. Yeah. We're too many. |
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