Judge won't toss claim against Mormon church in rape case

[Judi Lynn]

Source: Associated Press

Updated 3:55 pm CDT, Monday, August 13, 2018

SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — A judge is refusing to dismiss a lawsuit claiming a woman was raped after the Mormon church allowed a man to oversee young missionaries in the 1980s despite a history of sexual misconduct.

McKenna Denson's attorney, Craig Vernon, says the Monday decision will allow them to investigate for other possible victims.

The Associated Press doesn't usually name alleged victims of sexual assault, but Denson wants her story to be public.

A Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints spokesman says the court will discover the truth.

Read more: https://www.chron.com/news/crime/article/Judge-won-t-toss-claim-against-Mormon-church-in-13152958.php

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Joseph Bishop

Mar 24
Timeline of the Joseph Bishop Sexual Abuse Scandal


On March 19, 2018, MormonLeaks released an audio recording and written transcript of a Dec. 2, 2017 conversation between an unnamed woman (Survivor) and Joseph Bishop, in which the woman confronts Bishop for trying to rape her in 1984 while he was the MTC president and she was a sister missionary in training. Since then, the LDS Church responded and more details have become available. The following is my attempt to produce a timeline, so readers can get clearer picture of the 34-year scandal:

Prior to 1972
Joseph Bishop, while in an LDS bishopric, is involved with sexually abusive activity of which he admitted in the Dec. 2, 2017 recording:

Survivor: How many other women are there?
Joseph Bishop: It’s not that there’s so many other women, it’s just the two that were there [at the MTC], I remember one when I was in the Bishopric.

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More:
https://tinyurl.com/y8q2ar6k

[bitterross]

1. "the court will discover the truth."

Yes, they will. If the church weren't afraid of the truth they wouldn't have tried to get the case dismissed.