Posted on 12/13/2010 10:19:57 AM PST by Colofornian
BOISE, Idaho — As many as 15 church members who knew several months before authorities did that a Boise police officer had molested children will face no criminal charges for failing to report the crimes, Idaho authorities say.
The Ada County Sheriff's Office says members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints are protected by Idaho's clergy privilege law.
Police said Stephen R. Young confessed his crimes to church officials in January, but the crimes didn't become public until March. Young attended an LDS church in Eagle.
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Court records say Young admitted molesting four children, ages 1 month to 21 months, between 2005 and 2008. He initially was charged with four counts of lewd conduct with a minor but later pleaded guilty to one count of sexual battery of a child.
Young was sentenced in September to 25 years in prison, but he can ask for parole after 12 years.
Young, 59, was a Boise police officer from 1978 until he retired in February and was a school resource officer from 1995 to 2005.
According to court records and a journal kept by his wife, Young in August 2009 told his wife about his crimes...
In January, Young confessed his crimes to church officials...
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Investigators and church officials said LDS members who knew about Young's confessions initiated an internal disciplinary process...
Sheriff's reports say Boise police officer Kyle Christensen was a member of that process. But they say an LDS official asked him not to be involved in a hearing involving Young because, as a police officer, he was duty-bound to report crimes, but as a member of the High Council, he had to keep whatever he heard secret. Police say the LDS official did not tell Christensen who was involved in the disciplinary hearing...
(Excerpt) Read more at idahostatesman.com ...
From the article: Investigators and church officials said LDS members who knew about Young's confessions initiated an internal disciplinary process against him. Sheriff's reports say Boise police officer Kyle Christensen was a member of that process. But they say an LDS official asked him not to be involved in a hearing involving Young because, as a police officer, he was duty-bound to report crimes, but as a member of the High Council, he had to keep whatever he heard secret.
He stopped working with the school in 2005. He stopped working as a police officer in 2010. How many officers knew?
Were the infants from non-LDS families?
Article infers at least some (if not all) were from Lds families (says family members)...
Also says, though, "friends"...
And frankly, who knows -- in terms of beyond the families and friends?
He only confessed to four.
Was only charged with one.
And this guy was a school resource officer for over a decade, including working @ a number of elementary schools between 1995-2000 according to another article:
As a resource officer, Young spent a four-year stint at South Junior High and two years at Boise High between 2000 and 2005. He also worked at several elementary schools between 1995 and 2000, including Owyhee, McKinley, Monroe and Whitney.
Source: Boise Police veteran Stephen R. Young pleads guilty to molesting toddler: Stephen R. Young, who spent 32 years in law enforcement and a decade working in Boise schools, could serve two to 10 years in prison.
I don't think he was "broadcasting" it, do you?
Told his wife in '09; his church in early January; a fellow Lds police officer in early March -- apparently only after the church had disciplined him.
When an AP or other source article is excerpted, do not continue with more text in subsequent posts as that violates the fair use statute and could cause problems for Free Republic.
Thank you.
Here was the "inference" quote -- already excerpted: Court records say Young admitted molesting four children, ages 1 month to 21 months, between 2005 and 2008. He initially was charged with four counts of lewd conduct with a minor but later pleaded guilty to one count of sexual battery of a child.
I then proceeded (& cited) another article from June.
Never mind...I seen the line you were referencing
For those unaware of it, Colofornian makes a career of posting anti-Mormon hit pieces. Truthful or not, if it's nasty, post it !
Unfortunately, when you drain out the vitriol, there's nothing else there. It's sad.
All of the text in post one was from this article, yes much of it repeated.
And a few words added.
With those you barely squeak under the 300 word limit, so we will restore your post #1.
I took the time to go back and read about Mr Smith and LDS.
Very strange religion for sure.
That would be anti-MormonISM.
The poster in question isn't anti Mormon individuals, just the LDS belief system.
And yes, this story is about a very nasty incidence.
So, do you dispute the truth of this story?
Please post your findings.
“I have learned for myself that Presbyterianism is not true.”
17 It no sooner appeared than I found myself delivered from the enemy which held me bound. When the light rested upon me I saw two Personages, whose brightness and glory defy all description, standing above me in the air. One of them spake unto me, calling me by name and said, pointing to the other—This is My Beloved Son. Hear Him!
18 My object in going to inquire of the Lord was to know which of all the sects was right, that I might know which to join. No sooner, therefore, did I get possession of myself, so as to be able to speak, than I asked the Personages who stood above me in the light, which of all the sects was right (for at this time it had never entered into my heart that all were wrong)—and which I should join.
19 I was answered that I must join none of them, for they were all wrong; and the Personage who addressed me said that all their creeds were an abomination in his sight; that those professors were all corrupt; that: “they draw near to me with their lips, but their hearts are far from me, they teach for doctrines the commandments of men, having a form of godliness, but they deny the power thereof.”
20 He again forbade me to join with any of them; and many other things did he say unto me, which I cannot write at this time. When I came to myself again, I found myself lying on my back, looking up into heaven. When the light had departed, I had no strength; but soon recovering in some degree, I went home. And as I leaned up to the fireplace, mother inquired what the matter was. I replied, “Never mind, all is well—I am well enough off.” I then said to my mother,
Joseph Smith continues: "for the teachers of religion of the different sects understood the same passages of scripture so differently as to destroy all confidence in settling the question by an appeal to the Bible" (from Pearl of Great Price, Joseph Smith-History 1:12). "What is it that inspires professors of Christianity generally with a hope of salvation? It is that smooth, sophisticated influence of the devil, by which he deceives the whole world" (Teachings of the Prophet Joseph Smith, p.270).Questions put to Joseph Smith: "'Do you believe the Bible?' [Smith:]'If we do, we are the only people under heaven that does, for there are none of the religious sects of the day that do'. When asked 'Will everybody be damned, but Mormons'? [Smith replied] 'Yes, and a great portion of them, unless they repent, and work righteousness." (Teachings of the Prophet Joseph Smith, p. 119).Brigham Young stated this repeatedly: "When the light came to me I saw that all the so-called Christian world was grovelling in darkness" (Journal of Discourses 5:73); "The Christian world, so-called, are heathens as to the knowledge of the salvation of God" (Journal of Discourses 8:171); "With a regard to true theology, a more ignorant people never lived than the present so-called Christian world" (Journal of Discourses 8:199); "And who is there that acknowledges [God's] hand? ...You may wander east, west, north, and south, and you cannot find it in any church or government on the earth, except the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints" (Journal of Discourses, vol. 6, p.24); "Should you ask why we differ from other Christians, as they are called, it is simply because they are not Christians as the New Testament defines Christianity" (Journal of Discourses 10:230).Orson Pratt proclaimed: "Both Catholics and Protestants are nothing less than the 'whore of Babylon' whom the Lord denounces by the mouth of John the Revelator as having corrupted all the earth by their fornications and wickedness. Any person who shall be so corrupt as to receive a holy ordinance of the Gospel from the ministers of any of these apostate churches will be sent down to hell with them, unless they repent" (The Seer, p. 255).Pratt also said: "This great apostasy commenced about the close of the first century of the Christian era, and it has been waxing worse and worse from then until now" (Journal of Discourses, vol.18, p.44) and: "But as there has been no Christian Church on the earth for a great many centuries past, until the present century, the people have lost sight of the pattern that God has given according to which the Christian Church should be established, and they have denominated a great variety of people Christian Churches, because they profess to be ...But there has been a long apostasy, during which the nations have been cursed with apostate churches in great abundance" (Journal of Discourses, 18:172).President John Taylor stated: "Christianity...is a perfect pack of nonsense...the devil could not invent a better engine to spread his work than the Christianity of the nineteenth century." (Journal of Discourses, vol. 6, p.167); "Where shall we look for the true order or authority of God? It cannot be found in any nation of Christendom." (Journal of Discourses, 10:127).James Talmage said: "A self-suggesting interpretation of history indicates that there has been a great departure from the way of salvation as laid down by the Savior, a universal apostasy from the Church of Christ". (A Study of the Articles of Faith, p.182).President Joseph Fielding Smith said: "Doctrines were corrupted, authority lost, and a false order of religion took the place of the gospel of Jesus Christ, just as it had been the case in former dispensations, and the people were left in spiritual darkness." (Doctrines of Salvation, p.266). "For hundreds of years the world was wrapped in a veil of spiritual darkness, until there was not one fundamental truth belonging to the place of salvation ...Joseph Smith declared that in the year 1820 the Lord revealed to him that all the 'Christian' churches were in error, teaching for commandments the doctrines of men" (Doctrines of Salvation, vol. 3, p.282).More recent statements by apostle Bruce McConkie are also very clear: "Apostasy was universal...And this darkness still prevails except among those who have come to a knowledge of the restored gospel" (Doctrines of Salvation, vol 3, p.265); "Thus the signs of the times include the prevailing apostate darkness in the sects of Christendom and in the religious world in general" (The Millennial Messiah, p.403); "a perverted Christianity holds sway among the so-called Christians of apostate Christendom" (Mormon Doctrine, p.132); "virtually all the millions of apostate Christendom have abased themselves before the mythical throne of a mythical Christ whom they vainly suppose to be a spirit essence who is incorporeal uncreated, immaterial and three-in-one with the Father and Holy Spirit" (Mormon Doctrine, p.269); "Gnosticism is one of the great pagan philosophies which antedated Christ and the Christian Era and which was later commingled with pure Christianity to form the apostate religion that has prevailed in the world since the early days of that era." (Mormon Doctrine, p.316).President George Q. Cannon said: "After the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints was organized, there were only two churches upon the earth. They were known respectively as the Church of the Lamb of God and Babylon. The various organizations which are called churches throughout Christendom, though differing in their creeds and organizations, have one common origin. They all belong to Babylon" (Gospel Truth, p.324).President Wilford Woodruff stated: "the Gospel of modern Christendom shuts up the Lord, and stops all communication with Him. I want nothing to do with such a Gospel, I would rather prefer the Gospel of the dark ages, so called" (Journal of Discourses, vol. 2, p.196).
There own words show what the LDS really espouses (no pun intended about multiple spouses) and they hate that. (re the posted LDS text)
As of December 31, 2009, there were 51,736 LDS missionaries serving in 344 church missions throughout the world. Their work, often in cooperation with local members, resulted in 280,106 convert baptisms in 2009.[12] Author David Stewart points out that the number of convert baptisms per missionary per year has fallen from a high of 8.03 in 1989 to just 4.67 in 2005.[13] He argues that the number of converts would increase if Mormon missionaries made greater efforts in meeting new people; he points out that the average companionship spends only four or five hours per week attempting to meet new people.[13]
How terrible it is that a handful of Christians post a handful of threads per week on FreeRepublic to counter the proselytizing efforts of the missionaries and public relations campaign of the mormon church. Don't you just feel SO sorry that the poor, persecuted mormons aren't able to have their message heard?
Interesting how some people come in these threads & immediately attack the poster of those exposing pedophiles. No critique of the pedophile perps -- just the poster.
"Interesting" advocacy displayed.
Virtual TAR?
Virtual FEATHERS?
Bah!!!
I can live with THAT!
I found these two comments from another Web site made today "interesting." (I assume Mormons made the comments; but I can't say that with certainty):
This comment was made from poster Alas @ www.newordermormon.org: When the wife went to the stake president, it was no longer a confessional, but a wife reporting what her husband had done and that by law should have been reported because it was NOT a confession. So, by their own standards of "we must protect the confessional" they didn't report when they should have.
Source: New Order Mormon: Did fellow Mormons cover up officer's baby molestations discussion
There ya have it: Mormons breaking the law by staying silent to protect a pedophile. (Well what'ya expect?...How many hundreds, if not thousands, of Mormons didn't "tattle" on the Mountain Meadow Massacre slaughterers of babies & children & their parents in the 1850s as that silence lingered into the 1860s, the 1870s, the 1880s, the 1890s, & then into the 20th century before taking it to their graves?)
My dad grew up in Mormon culture amongst Mormon people. He partially defended Mormons, saying, "They knew how to take care of their own."
(Well, I "guess" they do)
BTW, from the same source above, poster Zadok @ NewOrderMormon.org concluded:
If I am not mistaken, I believe the instructions to the Bishops and Stake Presidents of the Church are to notify authorities. The greater good of protecting the innocent children, (and of course the good name of the Church) trump the sanctity of the confessional in these circumstances.
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