991: When the Church Protects Abusers - Jared and Juli Egley - Alleged Abuser is Current Bishop Pt. 1

Mormon Stories Podcast

Dr. John Dehlin

Religion & Spirituality

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🗓️ 5 October 2018

⏱️ 64 minutes

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Summary

Join us as we begin a new series on instances where the LDS Church protects alleged abusers instead of advocating for their victims.

Trigger warning: This interview discusses sexual assault. Please practice self care, and use discretion regarding who else listens in.

In Part 1 of this interview, Jared shares how he was allegedly sexually abused as a young boy by his uncle and how these experiences formed the basis for his most vivid memories. Jared also talks about the guilt and shame he carried from those experiences throughout his youth and through his LDS mission. As Jared progresses through life, he feels he has forgiven his uncle and was ready to move on, until his uncle was called as a bishop and given stewardship over a ward, including children. Feeling pressure to say something, Jared finally told his wife Juli of the abuse he suffered decades earlier.

In Part 2 of this interview, Jared and Juli discuss multiple meetings and interactions with LDS Church leaders including multiple stake presidents and bishops, and a private meeting with Elder Steven O. Laing of the Seventy (recorded by Jared and Juli and presented as Part 3 of this interview) to warn them of his uncle’s alleged history of abuse. During this meeting, both Jared and Juli were still true believing members, but now regard the inaction taken by their priesthood leaders and instead focusing on their personal faith as a major tipping point for their testimonies. As of today, Jared’s uncle remains bishop in a northern Utah ward.

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1:22.0	I hope you'll be wasn't.
1:27.0	Hello everyone and welcome to another edition of Mormon Stories podcast. I'm your host,
1:32.0	John DeLin. It is October 2nd, 2018 and we are very excited to be broadcasting live to you today
1:41.0	for those of you on Facebook Live from Salt Lake City, Utah in the Mormon Stories studios.
1:46.0	Today we have a really sobering story, so I think I want to begin just with some trigger warnings.
1:53.0	Today we're going to be talking about sexual abuse with kind of an overriding theme of how the Mormon Church
2:02.0	in 2018 continues to cover up and protect their abusers at the expense of the abused.
2:12.0	So that's a theme we plan to do a multi-interview series on this topic just like we did kind of
2:19.0	the Losing the Lamanites series and the inappropriate Bishop Interview series.
2:24.0	So if any of you are interested in willing to come on Mormon Stories on video and tell your stories
2:31.0	about how you or the victim of abuse and the church covered it up and protected the abuse or at your expense,
2:38.0	our intent is not to embarrass your shame the church or even less to embarrass or shame perpetrators.
2:47.0	It's to help fix a system that systematically is again harming abuse victims by focusing on sort of its own legal concerns,
2:59.0	its own reputation concerns and its own leadership at the expense of the abused.
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