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Mormon Stories Podcast

883: The Unpunished Sexual Abuses of Former MTC President Joseph L. Bishop Pt. 1

Mormon Stories Podcast

Dr. John Dehlin

Religion & Spirituality

4.55.7K Ratings

🗓️ 20 March 2018

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

Ryan McKnight discusses the decision to release the recording on MormonLeaks.io

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I'm your host John DeLin.

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It is March 19th, 2018.

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And we have a breaking story that we decided we wanted to make sure and cover today.

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The story involves the website, Mormon Leaks.

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And it basically involves the release today of an audio recording.

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And the audio recording is between a man named Joseph Bishop.

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This man, according to my research, is a former president of Weber State University.

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He is a former LDS mission president and he's the former president of the Provo Missionary Training Center from 1983 to 1986,

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which is two years before I entered the MTC.

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And in this recording, what we hear is a woman who was in the MTC as the sister missionary during the time that he was an MTC president.

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And she recounts to him what she states as the sexual abuse that she experienced from him, where she was in some form sexually groped or assaulted by him while he was MTC president.

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