Lawsuit filed against church for coverup of sex abuse

[_Shulem]

Please allow me to add a few thoughts from a cool level headed person such as myself.

I'm convinced that the LDS church on many levels over the course of many years is guilty of all kinds of cover up stories over the course of several generations. Surely there have been countless bishops, stake presidents, and general authorities who have improperly covered and hid serious legal transgressions against children for the sole purpose of milking the testimony of the offender back to health and protecting the so-called good image of the church which is of greatest importance for the corporation.

So, with that said, I suppose there are many crimes that went unpunished and the church has hid up a lot of dirt over the years, especially back in the days when reporting was more voluntary-like and it was easier to keep things hushes between families and church officers involved. The cult has a way of keeping things private through using the old guilt tool, if you know what I mean.

So, again, the church deserves anything it gets and more. It's been a long time coming but sooner or later it catches up. Karma, baby.

Paul O

[_Elphaba]

http://blog.kosnoff.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/2013-10-24-Jane-Doe-1-et-al-v-LDS-Berkeley-County-West-Virginia-Civil-Action-Number-13-C-656.pdf

Is that the lawsuit?

As someone who was sexually abused as a child myself, that was one of the hardest things I've ever read. Even if the boy is only guilty of what he was convicted of, and the complaint claims much more abuse occurred after that, the sheer insanity of his parents, bishop and stake president is beyond my comprehension. These adults literally placed close to a dozen wondrous little innocent babies in the hands of a monster, KNOWING, but of course dismissing, that he was a monster, and I am dumbfounded. How can that happen today, given the horrors of child abuse have been in the headlines for decades now?

And while this is usually not a popular position, this boy was a child himself when he started abusing, and in my opinion, this boy's parents, his bishop and his stake president also abused HIM by not contacting the proper authorities the FIRST (or second, or third, or fourth, or . . . ) time they became aware he had abused a child, by not getting him into therapy, by literally abandoning him, and most of all, by not protecting him from himself. This whole sordid story is unbelievably sad and ugly. m*****f*****s.

I do have a question for the legal eagles here. The complaint lists the church, i.e., "The Corporation of the President of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints of Jesus Christ," as one of the defendants, but while it gives a great deal of detail about the other defendant's actions, it gives only a few sentences about the Church's actions itself, and they were very vague.

I was going to write them down, but got so caught up in the document that I forgot, and don't want to go back through it. One I do remember describes when a second bishop was finally made aware of what was going on, he was told by Salt Lake City to just stay out of it, or something to that effect. I am not even sure if that wording is correct, but that was the gist of it.

I see why they want to implicate the Church if it's true higher ups tried to interfere, but the complaint does not go into any specific details about actions taken by anyone in positions above the stake president. So how do they prove the Church, itself, should be sued? They are requesting a jury trial, so are they just hanging on to information about that until the trial?

Any thoughts on that?

Thanks in advance,
Elphaba

bump: Can any legal eagles answer my question?