#854 Name Hidden. CS: 1,7,8,9. Other: Drugs and alcohol abuse
My adult daughter came to us 2 years ago to let us know that our Bishop in Bedford New Hampshire head sexually molested her at the age of 17 when…
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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.
#855 Name Hidden. CS: 1,2,3,4,5,7
This is NOT my story, but it IS the story of what can happen and what DID happen because of the policies of The Church of JESUS CHRIST of Latter-day…
#856 Jeffrey J. CS: 1,7
I am a convert to the church. I joined when I was 13 years old along with my family. I grew up in a broken home, the church was a…
#858 Renee M. CS: 1,2,3,4,5,6,7
At the age of 18 I finally told my mom and my bishop that my step father had sexually abused me, the good bishop did what our culture had taught…
#859 Name Hidden. CS: 1,2,3,4,7,8
The devaluing of My worth. I was a girl around 3 to 5 or so. A tomboy. I loved doing rough and tumble things with the neighborhood boys and I…
#860 Name Hidden. CS: 1,2,3,6,7,8
I was always shamed by The Church like everyone else growing up. I’ve tried writing my story now twice and every time I feel too much pain as I write…
#861 Name Hidden. CS: 1,2,3,4,7
I was 14 or 15 at the time and I remember my friends suddenly not attending church anymore. It all seemed to happen around the time that we were being…
#862 Name Hidden. CS: 1,2,3,4,5,7,8,9. Other: Belief that it was my fault when I was raped, so I never reported it
Prior to my first interview with the Bishop, I had no idea about sexual things. “Doing it” was something adults did. I was 11. But I wore sun dresses outside…
#863 Randal C. CS: 1,2,3,4,7. Other: Unworthy
At the age of 9, I was introduced to a powerful man, by the Rev/ Billy Graham. This powerful, loving man was my Lord, Jesus Christ, and it instilled in…
#864 Name Hidden. CS: 1,2,3,7
When I was 14 I went to my bishop to confess to looking at pornography and masturbation. I remember the shame more than anything. My bishop at the time was…
#865 Joseph P. CS: 1,2,7. Other: belief that I was somehow bad or wrong for going through the natural process of becoming an adult.
As a teenager, I was repeatedly interrogated by my bishop about masturbation. I lied and felt horrible about it. I thought there was something wrong with me. I thought I…
#866 Name Hidden. CS: 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10. Other: Years of late night harassing phone calls on my family’s home phone. I always suspected it was one of the male abusers from my families ward. If anyone but me picked up the phone, they would hang up. If I picked up the phone the voice on the other side would say sexually explicit things also talking of incest, and made it clear they were masturbating on the phone.
I was raised in a family with half a dozen siblings. Very close, very conservative. My parents were very “morally driven” and extremely uncomfortable with anything adult oriented or things…
#867 Name Hidden. CS: 4
I had two interviews happen to me that I did not question but did not feel right about at all. When I was 14 and had admitted to having sexual…
#868 Name Hidden. CS: 1,2,3,4,7
My children will not be interviewed by bishops because of what I faced as a teenager. When counseling about my “sins,” my bishop, a man who lived on the next…
#869 Name Hidden. CS: 1,2,4,5,7,8
My father, Stan ______, held one on one “priesthood” interviews with his children when I was growing up. He set this up to feel much like a Bishop interview, and…
#870 Name Hidden. CS: 1,2
This story is not my own but my wife’s. I share it in hopes that others can learn that they’re not unique when it comes to inappropriate interviews of minors.…
#871 E. M. CS: 1,2,3,4
I served as Young Women’s president for almost 10 years between three wards. On several occasions, the Bishop of the ward I was serving in made comments to me about…
#872 Jenna B. CS: 1,3,7,8,9. Other: Afraid of going to the bishop
It was October of 2007, and I had just turned 8. I was told I had to meet the bishop, to see if I was worthy enough, so I could…
#873 Name Hidden. CS: 1
Bishop asked me about touching myself inappropriately when I was 12. I didn’t realize this meant masturbating until later and that it was bad. I said no at the time…