These are personal accounts of the negative consequences that inappropriate interviews have had on people.
When I was 12, I was interviewed by not the bishop but someone else in the bishopric. Alone in a room with the door closed, I was asked if I had ever masturbated by a man 30 years older than me. When I was 12. I didn’t know what that meant, so I said that…
I am woman in my late 20s who has grown up in a very devout and large LDS family in Northern Europe.Even thought there are smaller amount of Mormons in Northern Europe, the church culture has always been the #1 part of my family’s life. From when I was small girl I was taught to…
I was raised from birth in the LDS Church. Having been told I was so lucky to have been born into such a wonderful organization for as long as I could remember, I believed it, and in many ways it kept me from leaving for several decades. Around the age of 12, I had my…
For over 7 years I was had meetings with my bishop/stake president/mission president at least monthly to talk about my masturbation “addiction”. Most of them were kind and did not ask for many details. They always told me I could overcome it if I had faith in Jesus Christ and tried to access his atonement.…
I had joined the church later in my life as a young single mom. My son had the opportunity to go to a temple trip with the rest of the youth and was going to be leaving Canada and going to the US for the first time. I found out that he would be staying…
I found out that one of our members (The former bishop )in our ward ended up raping a 16 year old girl. I had concern about this man being around children and so I voiced my concern to another member and she basically said that the girl was bad news and was slutty. When I…
These grown white men need to stop asking masturbation questions to kids they barely know!! Crazy racist cult! I grew up Mormon and am happy not to be associated with the faith anymore. Keep up the great work!!
I was a young adult when I joined the church.. fast forward and I made a friendship with an older man in the church who helped teach me, guide me, study etc.. he ended up touching me inappropriately in his home and I ran away in the middle of the night and later gathered the…
I was raised in the church and my mother was sexually and physically abused by my biological father. Whenever she tried to leave him, the church held her back in several ways. After he began sexually abusing me as an infant, my mother left him. However, regular unsupervised visits with him still happened and I…
I grew up in the LDS church with parents, siblings, friends, and many other family members. I was taught from a young age that men in the bishopric are called of God and that they answer to him. I was raised to trust bishops by my church family. When I turned 12 and I entered…