896: Christopher Swallow - LDS Church Calls Known Abuser as Mission President
Mormon Stories Podcast
Dr. John Dehlin
4.5 • 5.7K Ratings
🗓️ 30 March 2018
⏱️ 98 minutes
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Summary
During the 1980s and 1990s, Lowell Robison engaged in predatory sexual behaviors with several male cousins/BYU students. In 1995 Lowell Robison was called to serve as a mission president to the Mexico Leon mission (1995-1998). Christopher Swallow and his brother were two of his victims. When Christopher and his brother learned that Lowell Robison had been called as a mission president, they met with Elder Earl C. Tingey (LDS General Authority) at LDS church headquarters to report Lowell Robison's sexual abuse. Zero support was given to them as abuse victims, and no change was made to Lowell Robison's assignment, and he served out a full term as mission president.
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| 0:57.0 | Hello everyone and welcome to another edition of Warmest Stories podcast. |
| 1:01.0 | I'm your host, John DeLin. |
| 1:03.0 | It is March 22nd, 2018. |
| 1:06.0 | And we have a very important interview to share with you today. |
| 1:11.0 | This is not an interview that was necessarily planned, |
| 1:14.0 | but it comes off the heels of the recent Joseph Bishop sort of controversy |
| 1:20.0 | that's been sweeping Mormonism as of late. |
| 1:24.0 | For those of you who are listening later or who haven't been paying attention this week, |
| 1:29.0 | this week Mormon leaks, released an audio recording of a woman who recorded an interview |
| 1:36.0 | with Joseph Bishop who was the president of the Provo MTC from something like 1983 to 1986 or something to that. |
| 1:48.0 | In the recording he admits to sexually inappropriate behavior with several women, |
| 1:55.0 | both before he was called as president of the MTC, but also during the time he was president of the MTC. |
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