Help And Justice For Abused Members Of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
Names changed for privacy. Story shared at this link. Please share your story here as well: https://forms.gle/D9d2gF5R3PZs9fRk6 The Abuse My abuser was my father, who was a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. The first instance of abuse was sleeping in his bed as a little girl. I don’t remember the first …
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The Abuse ABC News Story, Including Video Case Summary From WHSV News In 2004, Chistopher Michael Jensen was arrested at age 13 at his middle school and charged with two felony counts of sexual abuse against two girls. Despite this fact, he was recommended as a babysitter to multiple members of the ward, where he …
Survivor’s actual name used at survivor’s request. Story shared at this link. Please share your story here as well: https://forms.gle/D9d2gF5R3PZs9fRk6 The Abuse James (name changed for privacy) was my Sunday School teacher and child of a general authority. He was a temple recommend holder at the time he was abusing me. I was 15. They’d recently …
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Names changed for privacy. Story shared at this link. Please share your story here as well: https://forms.gle/D9d2gF5R3PZs9fRk6 The Abuse My abuser was my boyfriend, who was a returned missionary of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. I was 19 (2012) the first time he abused me sexually. He told me he was so in …
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Names changed for privacy. Story shared at this link. Please share your story here as well: https://forms.gle/D9d2gF5R3PZs9fRk6 The Abuse My earliest memory was from about age 5. This one would’ve been mental\emotional abuse. I told my dad that I wanted to die, and all he said was, “No you don’t. If you really want to die, …
Story shared at this link. Please share your story here as well: https://forms.gle/D9d2gF5R3PZs9fRk6 The Abuse I was a 23-year-old BYU student. I had started dating a guy, Tom, but after a few dates things got inappropriate. He touched me inappropriately, and then started to do it more because I would freeze. I broke things off …
Here are some of the stories of brave people who have been willing to share their stories of LDS abuse. The point of sharing these stories is to help give these survivors a voice and to help with their healing. It is also to show clearly that there IS a major issue with how The …