Anyone read the AP Story about sex abuse in the LDS Church?

[Anonymous]

I simply don’t understand the mentality. Maybe a man could explain it. None of it makes sense to me as a desire for the husband, wife, priest, religious community. It just doesn’t make sense to me. And why has this stuff been so hidden for so long? Why have communities just put up with it?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I simply don’t understand the mentality. Maybe a man could explain it. None of it makes sense to me as a desire for the husband, wife, priest, religious community. It just doesn’t make sense to me. And why has this stuff been so hidden for so long? Why have communities just put up with it?

Because the patriarchy is in charge and it says hush up, keep sweet and smile. It denies the pain, it denies the abuse, and then communities begin to deny it altogether.

It doesn’t solve anything. The cycle continues.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I simply don’t understand the mentality. Maybe a man could explain it. None of it makes sense to me as a desire for the husband, wife, priest, religious community. It just doesn’t make sense to me. And why has this stuff been so hidden for so long? Why have communities just put up with it?

Because the patriarchy is in charge and it says hush up, keep sweet and smile. It denies the pain, it denies the abuse, and then communities begin to deny it altogether.

It doesn’t solve anything. The cycle continues.

No, I mean where does the desire come from to abuse if you are a religious leader who already gets a lot of dopamine hits and where does the desire come from to hush it up even from among the women in the parish?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Just terrible. He didn't even try to hide it, and the Church actively covered it up.
https://apnews.com/article/Mormon-church-sexual-abuse-investigation-e0e39cf9aa4fbe0d8c1442033b894660

The Adams family lived on a lonely dirt road about 8 miles from the center of Bisbee, an old copper-mining town in southeastern Arizona known today for its antique shops and laid-back attitude. Far from prying eyes, the Adams home — a three-bedroom, open concept affair surrounded by desert — was often littered with piles of clothing and containers of lubricant Adams used to sexually abuse his children, according to legal documents reviewed by the AP.

Paul’s wife, Leizza, assumed most of the child-rearing responsibilities, including getting their six children off to school and chauffeuring them to church and religious instruction on Sundays. Paul, who worked for the U.S. Border Patrol, spent much of his time online looking at porn, often with his children watching, or wandering the house naked or in nothing but his underwear.

He had a short fuse and would frequently throw things, yell at his wife and beat his kids. “He just had this explosive personality,” said Shaunice Warr, a Border Patrol agent and a Mormon who worked with Paul and described herself as Leizza’s best friend. “He had a horrible temper.”

Paul was more relaxed while coaxing his older daughter to hold a smartphone camera and record him while he sexually abused her. He also seemed to revel in the abuse in online chat rooms, where he once bragged that he had “the perfect lifestyle” because he could have sex with his daughters whenever he pleased, while his wife knew and “doesn’t care.”

I am not a fan of lds, but this is bs. It's a sexual abuser and pedophile, he is not following lds nor does lds mandate sex abuse, pedophilia. It's like saying all American are rapist and murders because Jeffrey Dahmer is American. Wtf.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Just terrible. He didn't even try to hide it, and the Church actively covered it up.
https://apnews.com/article/Mormon-church-sexual-abuse-investigation-e0e39cf9aa4fbe0d8c1442033b894660

The Adams family lived on a lonely dirt road about 8 miles from the center of Bisbee, an old copper-mining town in southeastern Arizona known today for its antique shops and laid-back attitude. Far from prying eyes, the Adams home — a three-bedroom, open concept affair surrounded by desert — was often littered with piles of clothing and containers of lubricant Adams used to sexually abuse his children, according to legal documents reviewed by the AP.

Paul’s wife, Leizza, assumed most of the child-rearing responsibilities, including getting their six children off to school and chauffeuring them to church and religious instruction on Sundays. Paul, who worked for the U.S. Border Patrol, spent much of his time online looking at porn, often with his children watching, or wandering the house naked or in nothing but his underwear.

He had a short fuse and would frequently throw things, yell at his wife and beat his kids. “He just had this explosive personality,” said Shaunice Warr, a Border Patrol agent and a Mormon who worked with Paul and described herself as Leizza’s best friend. “He had a horrible temper.”

Paul was more relaxed while coaxing his older daughter to hold a smartphone camera and record him while he sexually abused her. He also seemed to revel in the abuse in online chat rooms, where he once bragged that he had “the perfect lifestyle” because he could have sex with his daughters whenever he pleased, while his wife knew and “doesn’t care.”

I am not a fan of lds, but this is bs. It's a sexual abuser and pedophile, he is not following lds nor does lds mandate sex abuse, pedophilia. It's like saying all American are rapist and murders because Jeffrey Dahmer is American. Wtf.

I shouldn’t even respond to you since you didn’t read the article - and you should. The main person used in the article was a young girl who was raped by her father who told his bishop (who was also a physician, a mandated reporter) who called the “help” line who did the Mormon Church approved thing and buried it. Never told police. Never told social workers. If I read the article correctly, she was raped for several more years until police in New Zealand found the videos online. The church’s organized policies kept that child getting raped.

From the article OP linked (and you didn’t read):

“Mormon leaders established the help line in 1995 and it operated not within its Department of Family Services, but instead in its Office of Risk Management, whose role is to protect the church and members from injury and liability in an array of circumstances, including fires, explosions, hazardous chemical spills and severe weather. The department ultimately reports to the First Presidency, the three officials at the very top of the church hierarchy, according to records in the sealed documents.

Risk management also tracks all sex abuse lawsuits against the church, according to a sealed affidavit by Dwayne Liddell, a past director of the department who helped establish the help line. He said members of the church’s First Presidency knew the details of the help line.”

This is just like the Catholic Church’s abuse of the faith.