AP: Utah sex abuse tipline shields Mormon groomers and sex pests

[Winehole23]

When an Arizona bishop in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, widely known as the Mormon church, learned that a member of his ward was sexually assaulting his 5-year-old daughter, he followed church policy and called the Mormon Abuse Help Line.

The bishop later told law enforcement that church attorneys in Salt Lake City who staff the help line around the clock said that because he learned of the abuse during a counseling session the church considers a spiritual confession, he was legally bound to keep the abuse secret.

Paul Douglas Adams, a U.S. Border Patrol employee living with his wife and six children in Bisbee, Arizona, continued abusing his daughter for as many as seven more years, and went on to abuse a second daughter. He finally stopped in 2017 with no help from the church only because he was arrested.

https://apnews.com/article/Mormon-ch...9622668b54ac10

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Winester, getting his peeved on this morning.

tee, hee.

[DMC]

Pretty sure this kind of happens in many churches, not just the kooks in Utah. Churches are so accepting (even needy) for new members that pedos gravitate to them to get both catharsis for their past transgressions and to find new victims, knowing that the worst that will happen is they will be asked to leave the church if caught.