If someone is harmed then the appropriate authorities need to be contacted. Delaying it just creates a host of problems.
Boyd K. Packer's famous little factory talk comes to mind. At the end and closing, and not about his main topic, he went on to talk about a missionary that really needed to talk to him. He felt like something was very serious like sleeping with so and so's wife, but was relieved to find out it was only about one companion physically assaulting another one who he believed was gay. When he tried to calm the missionary down, the guy replied " I decked him", and as the story went on Packer would remark "is that all" basically suggesting that someone needed to set his companion straight. I remember being about 15 and sitting up on the stand at the stake center as it was Saturday night general priesthood and you sat where you liked.
FAIR tried to explain that the guy that decked his companion had a right to defend himself. Never in Packer's story did he suggest that the individual who the companion thought was gay attempted at anytime to touch him in anyway. If he did, then it was a crime. Meaning, just like a heterosexual missionary cannot go up and grab the breast of a female missionary without him being in handcuffs ten minutes later, a male missionary who likes guys cannot go up and touch his companion in some similar way, just because he's gay and likes the guy. They are both assaults, but Packer's talk is vague in details.
So we know from Packers talk that a crime did occur. The heterosexual missionary decked his companion. One punch deaths occur throughout the USA and the world every year. Not just death but a host of other problems such as falling back hitting your head which can then go in twenty five different directions including spending the next 60 years in diapers, unable to speak and all goals and plans needing to be set aside. Depression, anxiety, withdrawal, and a host of other problems can appear as well. Why Packer didn't immediately have the physically abusive missionary, released, police contacted and a report filed is beyond me. I'll say it again, delaying it is wrong. It allows the wound to get infected which can lead to a host of other issues.
Why in the MTC an hour or two, is not devoted to those who get abused by their companion and what to do, or to those who do the abusing and what to expect is beyond me. All I remember is Joe Christen*****raising his voice and saying, "Elders, never leave your companion" which sounded like Oz behind the curtain, and J.R. Bail***up on the stand smiling. But as to Elder Boyd K Packer:
"In 1993, President Packer warned that "religion faced the greatest threat from three groups: feminists, homosexuals and intellectuals."
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Did the companion assaulted start showing signs of depression, anxiety, withdrawal, or any other symptoms that children that are abused will likely display. Nobody knows. One talk at general conference about the church not being as important as the Savior was quickly redone even with the sound of someone coughing during the speech, but this one stayed put; it was printed into a very small book for the Aaronic Priesthood, until people started realizing exactly what Packer said and the possible harm and medical assistance needed after the assault. And then it was pulled but this is the age of the internet and it remains alive for everyone to hear.
“one of the important things for anybody in power is to distinguish between what you have the right to do and what is right to do." Potter Stewart, associate justice of the Supreme Court - 1958 to 1981.
