#643 Name Hidden. CS: 1,2,3,7
As a youth, there were very few times that I got free of the shame, guilt, and self loathing that accompanied worthiness interviews. Before my mission, I thought I cleared…
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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.
#641 Name Hidden. CS: 1,3. Other: No advancement in church
My son is an excellent, intelligent young man. Completely virtuous in every way. He wanted to serve a mission. The Bishop kept drilling him about pornography. He had never viewed…
#639 Name Hidden. CS: 1,2,3,4,6,7,8. Other: Attempted Self Mutilation
From when I was twelve onward, I was asked by my bishop in semi annual interviews sexual questions. He asked me, from when I was 12, if I engaged in…
#636 Name Hidden. CS: 5. Other: Inappropriate attitudes surrounding sexual assult
This is a second hand story. Years ago, there was an older teenage boy, 17-19 that was having a sexual relationship with a 13 year old girl in the same…
#635 Name Withheld. CS: Other: No consequences. But both my daughter and I remember the incident to this very day. (27 years later)
My daughter, who was 14 years old at the time, went to the bishop so she could get her temple recommend. She was going to the temple to be baptized…
#634 Name Hidden. CS: 1,2,3,4,7,8,9
My daughter has been participating in intensive treatment and therapy for PTSD following years of childhood trauma, resulting from living in the battlefield that was our home. She witnessed abuse,…
#631 Katie L. CS: 1,2,3,4,7,8. obsessive-compulsive disorder, PTSD
A deeply inappropriate worthiness interview when I was 12 or 13 years old traumatized me when a bishop went through the “For the Strength of Youth” pamphlet and asked me…
#629 Name Hidden. CS: 1,2,3,4,6,7,8. Other: Anxiety, Depression, Panic Attacks, Loss of faith
When I was 8 years old and receiving my worthiness interview for baptism, I remember feeling uncomfortable. I didn’t know my bishop well beyond singing songs to him in sacrament…
#627 Georgia S. CS: 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10
My husband is a retired police officer. There have been many times when he was investigating child abuse cases where bishops and other church leaders would not cooperate with the…