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RFM: 299: Operation Underground Railroad: Child Sex Abuse Allegations!

Mormon Discussions Podcasts – Full Lineup

Bill Reel

Religion & Spirituality

4.3618 Ratings

🗓️ 20 September 2023

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

VICE News is reporting that Paul Hutchinson, a former close associate of Tim Ballard and member of Operation Underground Railroad, is alleged to have touched a female minor’s bare breasts while on an OUR mission in Mexico. RFM breaks down these allegations, as well as presenting the latest on the Tim Ballard/Elder Ballard/O.U.R. situation!

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0:00.0

Testing one, two, three. Testing one, two, three. This is Radio Free Mormon on the air,

0:06.5

broadcasting behind enemy lines. Tonight's episode, Operation Underground Railroad, Child Sex Abuse,

0:14.2

allegations. Well, now it is Wednesday morning. It is September 20th, 2020. It is 7.14 a.m. My Time. And I'm looking at the

0:24.6

Church Newsroom website to see if they have at last, at long last, at way too long last,

0:31.2

really some kind of a statement regarding the Tim Ballard situation. And I see nothing there.

0:37.3

No, it's the same as it was yesterday when I reported at this time.

0:40.8

The latest news release is from yesterday,

0:43.0

and it's regarding church leaders inaugurating Shane Reese as the 14th president of BYU.

0:49.5

So that's what's dominating the news releases at the newsroom of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

0:56.4

There's a couple of things to talk about today.

0:59.6

The first is that Tim Ballard has now responded to the allegations made in the Vice News article about seven women who were employees of him claiming sexual misconduct against Tim Ballard while they were on their missions together.

1:16.4

And they basically all line up along the same way as my understanding as these allegations.

1:21.3

And their only allegations at this point is that Tim would have women go with him on missions to pose as his wife and then ask them to do

1:31.5

things that a husband and a wife would do, like showering together or sleeping in the same bed,

1:37.3

all in order to fool the sex traffickers into thinking that they were really married.

1:43.4

Those are the general gist of the

1:45.8

allegations. Tim Ballard has now come out with a denial, a formal denial of those allegations.

1:52.5

And this came out yesterday on September 19, 2020. I am on the website of, let's see.

2:04.1

Well, I'm not sure that's probably an advertisement there.

2:11.4

But the title is, Sound of Freedom, subject, Tim Ballard, denies Vice News claims about sexual misconduct.

2:13.6

He says, they are baseless accusations.

2:16.2

This is written by John F. Trent.

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