I have a question wrote:A former president of the LDS Missionary Training Center has admitted that he took a young woman into a small room at the Provo campus in 1984 and asked to see her breasts, according to a report released Wednesday by Brigham Young University police.
https://www.sltrib.com/news/2018/03/22/ ... olice-say/And this guy isn’t yet excommunicated because...
He claimed not to remember the assault she alleged, but three days later, he told BYU officers that he recalled going into his small preparation room with her. “Then while talking to her he asked her to show him her breasts,” the report said, “which she did.”
His son might want to rethink his “my dad can’t remember/didn’t happen” defence...
“I have no reason to doubt the victim’s disclosure, and would have likely prosecuted Mr. Bishop,” Sturgill wrote in the report, “but for the expiration of the statute of limitations.”
The Church might wish to rethink its statement of “the police didn’t believe her”
This is an excellent point.
The police report from the interview done of Bishop by law enforcement on December 6 or 7, 2017, has this admission by Bishop that he asked the sister missionary to show him her breasts, which she did.
The church says it is conducting an investigation.
Surely the investigation would have uncovered at a minimum what was in the police reports.
And yet the church wants to say it will sit back and wait to see how this plays out in the courts?
This is indefensible, I think.
Asking a young lady to show you her breasts and have her comply is not a criminal offense.
But one would think church discipline might be warranted where the one asking is the MTC president and the one showing is a sister missionary at the MTC.