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This is Radio Free Mormon on the air, broadcasting behind enemy lines.

Tonight's episode, the LDS Church gets away with protecting a child molester. Yes, you may think that that title is

clickbait. That statement as a headline for a podcast cannot possibly be true. But I assure you,

this is 100% accurate. And I'm going to spend the rest of the podcast explaining why it is I feel that way, and you can make up your own mind on the subject.

I will tell you that this is perhaps the most disturbing story I have seen, at least recently involving the LDS Church and the way they treat child abusers who are members of the church versus how they treat the victims of child molesters.

All right. So this is based upon a story that came out last Wednesday, November 8th, 2023. I am recording this on Sunday morning, November 12th, 2023. I came into the studio

yesterday. I spent a bunch of time researching. I already recorded this podcast, and it was about an

hour long. And I went back, I looked at it. It wasn't what I wanted. I was dissatisfied with it.

I scrapped it. I'm coming back into the studio to re-record that episode. But let me give you the thumbnail version first. Before I get into the

details, there was a member of the church, a man named Paul Adams. He lived in Arizona with his wife and small daughter. He worked for the

Border Patrol. And when he was not working for the Border Patrol, he would spend time at home

sexually abusing and even raping his young daughter. This went on for some time. Then he went to his bishop, feeling some kind of

compunction about what it was he was doing. He went to his bishop and confessed to his bishop what it was

that he was doing to his daughter in their home. The bishop did what a bishop is supposed to do in the Mormon church,

which is he has a hotline that he's supposed to call in situations like this. That hotline goes

directly to Curtin McConkey. There is a screener who screens calls. There's probably

multiple screeners who screen calls, but he talks to a screener.

The screener takes down some notes to keep the details fresh. It's a bit of a complicated story.

And then the screener recognizes that this is one of the reports where the LDS Church could be in trouble.

And so what they do is they pass it on to an attorney who works for Curtin-McConkey.

And now the attorney talks to the bishop.

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