LDS Moral Scaffolding In Action - more abuse hiding

[I Have Questions]

Here’s another case of predator facilitation by leaders in the LDS Church finally coming to light:

An Oregon woman has sued the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, claiming a bishop told her not to report years of sexual abuse by a high priest.

The woman, who was a member of the Church, alleged she was raped by the high priest in 1995 when she was 10 years old, and the abuse continued until she was 15 years old, the Las Vegas Review-Journal reported, citing the lawsuit filed Tuesday in a federal court in Las Vegas.

The high priest, whose name the newspaper did not disclose, had served at the East Stake 1st Ward in Las Vegas, counseling congregation members. The woman’s identity is not revealed in the lawsuit.

In 1999, the woman, then just a teenage girl, told a bishop, who oversaw the ward, about the alleged abuse, the lawsuit says, but he told her not to report it to police.

The bishop told the girl that the Church would “‘handle’ the situation,” the lawsuit claims. But the Church ended up telling the high priest that the girl reported the abuse, “and took no meaningful action to prevent further harm.”

Keep in mind that the predator and the Bishop in question (and any other Church leaders with whom the Bishop consulted) had the advantage of the scaffolding of the SLC LDS Church in the development of their moral compasses.