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Sex abuse lawsuit filed against Mormon church [allegations re: Lds missionary & cover-up]
Palm Springs Desert Sun ^ | May 2, 2014 | Reza Gostar

Posted on 06/27/2014 9:09:58 AM PDT by Colofornian

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From the article: Lawsuit claims teen girl was repeatedly abused by Mormon missionary in 1985 in Rancho Mirage and Palm Desert. PALM SPRINGS – A lawsuit filed Friday against The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, a church bishop and a missionary, claims a woman was repeatedly sexually abused when she was a teenager in Rancho Mirage and Palm Desert, and it was covered up. The lawsuit, which was filed in Riverside County Superior Court in Palm Springs, contends that from July to November 1985, Jacqueline Tyler, then 13, was repeatedly abused by a missionary and that after a church bishop learned of the alleged abuse, her family was told to stay quiet and the bishop "made advance payment or partial payment of damages as an accommodation to plaintiff."...In January, two Salt Lake City men, ages 41 and 42, sued the Mormon church claiming they were sexually molested in Hawaii after the church recruited them to work at a pineapple farm there. The alleged abuse, they said, took place in the late 1980s and was committed by a Mormon missionary who was a leader at one of the church's camps.
1 posted on 06/27/2014 9:09:58 AM PDT by Colofornian
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not surprised.....we humans gravitate towards sin, no matter what religious or nonreligious persuasion.....

the fact that the Catholic church and the Mormon church and the Boy Scouts and any other large group with money would be targeted by lawyers is not surprising as well.....

2 posted on 06/27/2014 9:14:48 AM PDT by cherry
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Unfortunately pedophiles gravitate towards any group that has access to children
It is also very sad that some groups try and hide this fact


3 posted on 06/27/2014 9:17:55 AM PDT by svcw (Not 'hope and change' but 'dopes in chains')
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To: svcw

CAUTION!! CHRISTIAN BASHING THREAD!!
4 posted on 06/27/2014 9:21:17 AM PDT by laotzu
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To: cherry

It’s a little more than greed. Sounds like you are blaming the victims. These people were really violated. The perps should pay by incarceration and those who covered up their crimes should be liable to the only recourse victims have - in the civil courts.


5 posted on 06/27/2014 9:22:42 AM PDT by Dr. Thorne ("Don't be afraid. Just believe." - Mark 5:36)
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To: cherry; svcw; All
we humans gravitate towards sin, no matter what religious or nonreligious persuasion.....

Interesting.

When other stories appear about a person having similarly raped a 13 yo and then eventually impregnating her, I don't seem to recall seeing comments about that rapist's "gravitation toward sin" as some explanation for why he committed the ongoing rapes.

(Is this explanation only being offered up because the rapist happened to be a Mormon mishie...or do you regularly offer posts of early-teens being sexually abused attributing it to mere "sin gravitation" by said rapists?)

6 posted on 06/27/2014 9:23:52 AM PDT by Colofornian
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To: laotzu; Salvation

“CAUTION!! CHRISTIAN BASHING THREAD!! “

++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

If only Mormon Missionaries were allowed to marry?


7 posted on 06/27/2014 9:28:18 AM PDT by Morgana ( Always a bit of truth in dark humor.)
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To: laotzu

As of post two, lawyers are added to the thread, not just “Christian bashing”.

Watch yer sef’ - soon some post will slag you about whether LDS really are Christians.

Some days, I wonder if we are just sales boosters for the popcorn industry.


8 posted on 06/27/2014 9:28:46 AM PDT by GladesGuru (Islam Delenda Est. Because of what Islam is - and for what Muslims do.)
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It took her 28 years to figure out she had been emotionally traumatized?

Sorry, but $$$$.


9 posted on 06/27/2014 9:29:18 AM PDT by PAR35
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or do you regularly offer posts of early-teens being sexually abused..?

No. That's me. I love working with children.

10 posted on 06/27/2014 9:30:28 AM PDT by laotzu
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Some days, I wonder if we are just sales boosters for the popcorn industry.

Har!! Its funny 'cuz its true.

11 posted on 06/27/2014 9:32:20 AM PDT by laotzu
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It took her 28 years to figure out she had been emotionally traumatized? Sorry, but $$$$.

Perhaps, but not sure you would be good at trying to get inside EVERY SINGLE sexually abused (from early teenhood) woman and pronounce judgment upon them to the world that their lone motivation is $.

In some cultures -- where cover-ups are prevalent -- it's the "cultural" secret that's to remain in the closet...just like how in some families -- where cover-ups are prevalent...the victim may "protect" the family perps for quite some time.

The timing issue of lawsuits isn't only about getting recompense. For many victims, it's the nerve to finally go public with the matter...and also breaking the cycle of keeping it all hush-hush.

12 posted on 06/27/2014 9:38:58 AM PDT by Colofornian
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But they always seem to be looking for the deep pockets, and they just happen to ask for large sums.

The real guilty parties are the rapist and the girl’s parents. I don’t see the parents named in the suit.


13 posted on 06/27/2014 9:53:06 AM PDT by PAR35
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MORMONS
14 posted on 06/27/2014 9:56:45 AM PDT by baddog 219
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As tempted as I am to hit the abuse button, I won’t. I believe it says more about the poster of that image than the one they are attempting to denigrate.

Not one of us who reject mormon doctrine and theology don’t believe the scurrilous and filthy statement contained in that image. We all believe that mormons are children of God. The Biblical God, not one of the millions of mormon gods who their doctrine teaches and states is a “perfected man who earned his godhood”.

In fact, it may be too much for some minds to comprehend since any opposition to something they hold in regard is to be viewed as “hatred”, regardless of any facts posted to the contrary.

I’m grateful for the truth and knowledge posted on FR that prompted me to further investigate the veracity of mormonism and to have found my way out of it.


15 posted on 06/27/2014 10:15:26 AM PDT by SZonian (Throwing our allegiances to political parties in the long run gave away our liberty.)
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To: PAR35

Will the legal case be called False Prophets v False Profits?


16 posted on 06/27/2014 10:48:10 AM PDT by edpc (Wilby 2016)
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But they always seem to be looking for the deep pockets, and they just happen to ask for large sums.

C'mon now...start listing the lawyers you know from around the country who are going to "specialize" in asking for small sums...

Yes, attorneys represent their clients...but they don't always represent the initial or preferential leanings of their clients. Besides, we all know the legal formula. Ask big. Expect a small response. And settle somewhere in between.

17 posted on 06/27/2014 11:01:15 AM PDT by Colofornian
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” I don’t see the parents named in the suit.”

Does it matter? The Girl is now a woman. All she needs is her lawyer. I figure her parents will be called in to testify. In fact I hope they are called in, because I wanna know how this happened in the first place.


18 posted on 06/27/2014 11:44:49 AM PDT by Morgana ( Always a bit of truth in dark humor.)
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1985?

Why so long?

19 posted on 06/27/2014 2:18:32 PM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: laotzu

Caution!

Rape ignoring reply...

20 posted on 06/27/2014 2:19:17 PM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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