failure to report by local LDS church leaders

My dad was a Pedophile protected by the church. I was his main victim for about 10 years. It went on this long because he was the one being protected. During my childhood in Idaho, Arizona, California and Washington, several bishops had been involved, same story every time he got…

My father groomed me to protect him. He molested me in my bed in 1980. When I finally told his bishop in 1991, the bishop called him to meet me in bishop’s office to apologize. My father said “on that day I had to decide what kind of man I…

[An LDS church member] of [a town in] Indiana groped my privates, rear and breasts when I was near the age of 8. He did the same thing to the other girls in my year right in front of me. We told one a couple of our women parents and…

I was groomed and molested by my step dad from the ages of 9-18. When I was around 15 I admitted to the bishop’s wife in my ward in California, what was happening to me. Apparently my step dad went before the stake council and was disfellowshipped. I don’t know…

When I was an 18-year-old university student in 1985/86, attending University in eastern Canada, a high priest in our ward sexually assaulted me while I was supposed to meet up with other students. You see, he wasn’t just a high priest, he also taught Institute. I arrived a few minutes…

All of my ancestors were Mormon pioneers, in fact some notable ones, I’m a descendant of Joseph F Smith. My mother was very Mormon, my father however lost his faith and left the church and us. He left my mother with three young children. My mother did not feel complete…

3 years ago a family friend asked my parents if they could come over and talk to them about something that happened years and years earlier. When they came over we learned that when I was 5 their 12 year old son came into my room while I was asleep…

When I was 13 I was sexually molested by this guy in our ward (Washington state). I wasn’t the only one. When I told my friend about what happened, she had told me it happened to her and her sister too. Talking to more girls, a total of 8 of…

My brother is currently serving time (up to 25 years) for sexual assault of a child. He pled guilty in 2019. He has been inactive his entire adult life and this particular incident was never reported to any church authorities. However, when we were children (late 90s-00s), he also sexually…

Unfortunately this is not my story but I know it well. My brother was charged (and those charges were later dropped in a court) with abusing his 1yr old daughter. He was not wed to the girls mother. In court the church helped him with men who would attest to…