978: Experiencing Sexual Assault as a Missionary - Camille and Maddy Pt. 3
Mormon Stories Podcast
Dr. John Dehlin
4.5 • 5.7K Ratings
🗓️ 12 September 2018
⏱️ 59 minutes
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Summary
Join us now on Mormon Stories Podcast as we interview Camille and Maddy about experiencing rape/sexual assault as a Mormon missionary.
Trigger warning: This episode discusses rape and sexual assault. Please practice self care, and use discretion regarding who else listens in.
In these important episodes, we will cover Camille’s sexual assault during her mission to Mexico, Maddy’s sexual assault while on a mission in Bolivia, and how the LDS Church handled the aftermath of these traumatic experiences. Camille and Maddy also share their thoughts on how the LDS Church can improve their handling of sexual assaults and importantly, why they decided to go public with their stories now.
Also discussed throughout these episodes is the missionary cultural belief of obedience to mission rules results in protection from the Lord, even in the most war-torn and violent areas in the world. We talk about the feeling of invincibility and protection that Camille and Maddy felt before their assaults, and how their sexual assaults affected their faith in both LDS Church leadership, and in God.
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| 1:22.0 | I hope you'll be wasn't. |
| 1:27.0 | Welcome back to part three of this episode on Mormon Stories podcast. I'm your host, John |
| 1:33.0 | Dillin. This is part three of our episode on Mormon missionaries experiencing sexual assault |
| 1:40.0 | while they're on a mission and how the church handled it and how the church is handling it. |
| 1:47.0 | And what we can all do and how we can all be a part of making things better. |
| 1:54.0 | If you joined us, hopefully join us for parts one and two of this episode. For part one, |
| 1:59.0 | we interviewed Camille Hunca and she talked about her sexual assault that she experienced on her |
| 2:06.0 | mission in Mexico a few years ago, about four years ago. All right, three or four years ago. |
| 2:13.0 | Almost four years ago. Yeah. And that was part one and then part two, we interviewed |
| 2:20.0 | Maddie Seacot and she talked about her sexual assault in Bolivia and there were two |
| 2:28.0 | harrowing heart-wrenching interviews and episodes. And as we left it, we sort of left each |
| 2:37.0 | story at the point where Camille and Maddie ended up getting connected together. |
| 2:42.0 | And what we're going to be covering now in this episode is Camille and Maddie's efforts |
| 2:49.0 | to help the Mormon Church change. It's the way it handles sexual assault of missionaries |
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