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Warning: Sexually Explicit content.

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.

#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…

#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…

#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…

#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…

#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…

#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…

#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…

#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…

#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…

#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…

#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…

#370 Pattie C. CS: 1,7,10

This is not my story. This is my sister’s story. But she is not here to tell it. My younger sister LeeAnn became a “special project” of her Bishop _____…

#369 Susan B. CS: 4

Even though it was long ago, I remember being interviewed by the bishop as I prepared to be baptized at the age of eight. It was the mid-1950’s, and both…

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

I was ~middle school age when my Mormon leaders started bringing this stuff up and asking me about the same stuff. Wish I’d known back then how messed up it…

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

I’m a pretty sexual person. I don’t know if it’s a consequence of my youth or whether it’s just how I am and I was made to feel ashamed of…

#366 Name Hidden. CS: 4

My story I hope will bring light to how systemic the issue is. The story is my father’s who is now 70. When my father was being interviewed to be…

#365 Name Hidden CS: 1,2,3,6,7,8

When I was in high school I was sexually assaulted by a classmate. When this happened I was totally naive to anything sexual in nature, so obviously I didn’t quite…

#364 Mike S. CS: 1,2,6,7

I haven’t read even one of these stories. I won’t. I can’t let myself read child abuse. I’m 58, BIC, active nearly my entire life. My experience is likely better…

#363 Name Hidden. CS: 1,2,3,4,5,7,10

I remember a dimly lit room where I was interviewed quickly for baptism at 8 years old. My parents were ‘inactive’ and the first I heard of what I was…

#362 Name Hidden. CS: 1,3,4,6,8

I was a new missionary at the MTC. The MTC President groomed the sister missionaries by constantly praising and complementing us as if he had us on a pedestal. At…

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