#371 Name Hidden. CS: 1,2,4,7. Other: Loss of innocence.
When I was a very naive 12 year old, I attended my first bishops interview. I was scared & really had no idea what to expect. I was intimidated by…
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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.
#372 Name Hidden. CS: 1,2,3,4,7
I left TSCC in my early 20s almost 45 years ago. My parents were “pioneers” of Mormonism in a small Australian city, hence branch presidents and later bishops were well…
#373 Charmaine Ferreira. CS: 1,2,3,4,7,8. Other: Sexual abuse by Young Men’s President at age 15 onwards
This is my story for all the men and women who’s hearts and souls are broken because of men at church. This My story for you. I didn’t know who…
#374 Name Hidden. CS: 1. Other: Defending physical abuse by a priesthood holding father.
My sister and I, at different times in our respective childhoods mustered up the courage to tell the bishop about our dad, who physically, emotional and mentally abused us and…
#375 Name Hidden. CS: 1,2,3,7,8,9
If you were with me in Utah right now, I would walk you out past my old neighborhood thru a farmer’s field about a quarter of a mile to the…
#376 Name Hidden. CS: 1,2,4
We had postponed my daughter’s baptism for months so that her older brother could return from a sales job and baptize her. Days before the scheduled baptism we got a…
#377 Name Hidden. CS: 5 Other: Current Mormon Bishop who is an abuser.
I am a 41 year old life long male member of the LDS church. I was sexually abused as a young child by my Uncle who was 12 years older…
#378 Name Hidden. CS: 1,6,7
My ex-wife used to masturbate when she was a young woman until our marriage (she was 25). She is a true believer and claims that she didn’t have any bad…
#379 Name Hidden. CS: 4
This is not a story about a mandated bishops interview. But it does show the nature of the naive Mormon mindset that just because someone is a bishop, they are…
#380 Name Hidden. CS: 1,2,4,5,7
I honestly can’t say that I know exactly where it all began. The trouble is that the fond memories intertwine with the inappropriate and drawing that line to decipher between…
#381 Jo T. CS: 1,2,3,5,8
It was summer and we had a large garden in Nothern California we shared with neighbors and ward members. My dad was a postman and money was always tight for…
#382 Name Hidden. CS: 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,10
My father was in church leadership as were all the males in my family dating back to Joseph Smith himself and are direct descendants of him. My maternal grandfather was…
#383 David. CS: 1,2,3,4,6
Those who read my story may well conclude that I have no business posting alongside those who have been subject to the horrors of sexual abuse and assault. My story…
#384 Name Hidden. CS: 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8
When I was in my late teens, I was called into the Bishop’s office, out of the blue, and interrogated for over one and half hours, regarding sexual acts that…
#385 Name Withheld CS: 1,2,3,4,6,7,8,10
I don’t think my story is anywhere near as hurtful and disturbing as others who have come forward. I offer my respect, love, and support to each of the brave…
#386 Name Hidden. CS: 1,4
When I was 15 I slept with my boyfriend. It wasn’t until later that I realized I had done so because I didn’t feel like I could say no. Anyway,…
#387 Name Hidden 1,2,3,4,7,8
I recognize my mother’s voice in another story here, so I think it’s time to share mine. When I was a child, I had a very zealous bishop who thoroughly,…
#388 Name Hidden. CS: 1,2,3,4,5
I want to spend a little time sharing my story. I do not want to give too many details but give readers a pretty good idea of what happened to…
#389 Joel B. CS: 1,2,3,6
I really don’t have a great sense of exactly how to communicate just how damaging these one on one bishop interviews involving sexual topics by untrained men with authority for…
#390 Name Hidden CS: 1
In the spring of 2012, the Stake President of the Winnipeg Canada Stake told us in the annual stake priesthood mtg. that “masturbation leads to murder”. God forbid there was…