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Legend for Consequences Suffered (CS):

Inappropriate shame and guilt
Childhood self-loathing
Adulthood self-loathing
Normalizing children to sexual questions by adult men. (Grooming)
Sexual abuse. (Pedophilia)
Impaired sexual relations after marriage.
Years of recovery from childhood shaming. Often lasting decades.
Suicide Ideation
Attempted Suicide
Suicide of a loved one or friend.

#724 Carrie CS: 1,3

When I was 23 I was a recent BYU grad, still living in BYU housing (thus in a BYU ward), and in graduate school (not BYU). I also had a…

#723 Jennifer H. CS: 1,6

I remember sitting in my bishops office at the age of 16. I had lost my virginity to my high school sweetheart. We decided to stop having sex so that…

#722 Marianne F. CS: 1,2,3,7,8. Other: anxiety

I admitted to premarital sex as a teenage girl. I did this willingly because I was told it was the right thing to do and I believed it. The whole…

#721 Name Hidden. CS: 1,2,3,4,6,7,8

When I was 15 I had an almost 18 year-old boyfriend. He tried to force things on me and sometimes had the upper hand He tried to go too far…

#720 Name Hidden. CS: 1,3,4

I was 14 when I moved into a new ward. I was as innocent as they come. My bishop called me in for an annual birthday interview. The topic of…

#719 Name Hidden. CS: 1,2,3,5

During one of my worthiness interviews while I was a teenager, my bishop informed my that my best friend and I were too close, and that people were talking. He…

#718 Name Hidden. CS: 1,4

My daughter at age 12 was being interviewed alone in the bishops office and asked if she masturbates and asked if she kisses girls. (An adult male asked my 12…

#717 Name Hidden. CS: 1,2,3,4,7,8,9

I grew up in the same ward as a lot of my Facebook friends. We all had the same Bishops and ward leaders and I am so grateful to those…

#716 Name Withheld. CS: 1,2,3,5,6,7

The following is my personal story of childhood abuse and how church leadership concealed and diminished its significance. It is long. I come from a large Mormon family. I was…

#715 Name Hidden. CS: 5. Other: Frustration towards church leaders in how they handle cases of childhood sexual abuse.

My stepfather sexually abused my sisters and I when we were younger. I hid the fact, until 5 years later. I wanted to heal from the abuse, and for the…

#714 Name Hidden. CS: 1,2,3,6,7

Mine is a story of abuse. Not from a bishop but from a mormon dad who rose in the levels of mormon leadership because he did things like eloquently pray.…

#713 Name Hidden. CS: 1,2,4,7,9

I was 12 years old and recently found out that something I had been doing for years was called masturbation. My bishop happened to be my uncle, and I had…

#712 Name Hidden. CS: 1,3,5,7

I was roughly six or seven when I was molested by an older cousin during a family vacation. (Everyone was Mormon, and all the men mentioned below are Melchizedek priesthood…

#711 Name Hidden. CS: 1,3,6,7,8. Other: Limited capability to feel love. Deep rooted belief I am not worthy of love. Unable to believe Christ could forgive me. Works, no grace.

My story happened not because of a Bishop with inappropriate intentions, but because the several men I dealt with were trying their best with very little guidance and only very…

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