LDS Church buys the silence of another 100 sex abuse victims

[I Have Questions]

Getting back on topic…

Not to badger you or anything, and I might be mostly thinking out loud here, but NOT paying off victims and instead throwing perpetrators to law enforcement would have no effect on making money from interest and investments. So forgive me if I can't buy into that last sentence quite yet.

That’s okay, I’m not trying to sell you on it. I’m only guessing based on what I see. It’s a struggle to find a reason for why they don’t do what seems to be the obviously right thing on this topic - which is to assist in rooting out perpetrators and take any and all actions to improve policies and practices to avoid further incidents.

All of that makes sense. Maybe they pay off victims and shield perpetrators because they believe (perhaps rightfully) that the church's image and their own image is one and the same? I.e., if the church's image is squeaky-clean, then so is their own?

If that's the case, then ego maintenance is overriding money-making, which is hardly an unheard-of phenomenon. Maybe that's the key.

I think ego plays a massive part in First Presidency and Q12 thinking.