Posted on 12/13/2010 1:28:49 PM PST by Colofornian
...As many as 15 people who knew...Boise police officer...confessed to molesting babies...face no criminal charges.
...deputies...determined...leaders of...Latter-day Saints congregation that Stephen R. Young attended can’t be charged because of...clergy privilege law.
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...Young turned himself in...March 2... That was about two months after church officials say they first talked to Young about his crimes.
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...Ada County prosecutors say...Steve Nelson sexually abused as many as four children over a 30-year period...Nelson confessed to molesting one child to LDS officials, who learned of the crime from the victim but did not report it.
More than 20 years later, Nelson pleaded guilty...In 2009, the woman he...abused as a preteenager...caught him molesting a 3-year-old girl, according to court records.
Before sending Nelson to...prison...Judge Darla Williamson told him: “I...don’t understand...why the church didn’t require that law enforcement be involved with you. Possibly...we would have at least one less victim.”
...Tim Ryan is serving...probation...after pleading guilty...to...sexual abuse...Detectives say...the case...was dropped when the girl’s family wouldn’t cooperate with investigators. About the time the case was dropped, prosecutors said, the girl met with Ryan and an LDS bishop.
The victim told the Idaho Statesman last week that she had to attend a meeting with an LDS bishop and Ryan where she was asked to forgive Ryan....
“...I was really scared...They wanted me to forgive him. I was 14. I was put on the spot. What are you going to say?”
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...investigators and...prosecutors say Young could have abused as many as 20...victims over a 30-year period... Prosecutors say Young’s victims were infants or babies, 21 months of age or younger...all...family members or children of friends.
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Young’s wife first mentions...LDS Church in a...journal entry...says Young “was relying on (the bishop). He said (the bishop) made a lot of calls to keep him from going to jail.”...
(Excerpt) Read more at mcclatchydc.com ...
From the excerpted article:
...Ada County prosecutors say...Steve Nelson sexually abused as many as four children over a 30-year period...Nelson confessed to molesting one child to LDS officials, who learned of the crime from the victim but did not report it. More than 20 years later, Nelson pleaded guilty...In 2009, the woman he...abused as a preteenager...caught him molesting a 3-year-old girl, according to court records. Before sending Nelson to...prison...Judge Darla Williamson told him: “I...don’t understand...why the church didn’t require that law enforcement be involved with you. Possibly...we would have at least one less victim.”
From the excerpted article: ...Tim Ryan is serving...probation...after pleading guilty...to...sexual abuse...Detectives say...the case...was dropped when the girl’s family wouldn’t cooperate with investigators. About the time the case was dropped, prosecutors said, the girl met with Ryan and an LDS bishop. The victim told the Idaho Statesman last week that she had to attend a meeting with an LDS bishop and Ryan where she was asked to forgive Ryan....“...I was really scared...They wanted me to forgive him. I was 14. I was put on the spot. What are you going to say?”
From the excerpted article: Young’s wife first mentions...LDS Church in a...journal entry...says Young “was relying on (the bishop). He said (the bishop) made a lot of calls to keep him from going to jail.”...
A disturbing post. What’s your take?
Is this what pre-empted and/or set the stage for the Mormon advertisements??
Verity comes from "veritas"
If you watch the George C. Scott version of A Christmas Carol, you see George C. Scott taking a filter-shaped hat and trying to squelch the truths spoken by the Ghost of Christmas Past as she exits the scene.
Her final comment to Scrooge? "Truth lives!"
Truth isn't a hobby, it's Veritas.
(Now...we'll we see you change your FREEPER monikier to HobbyHorse?)
Hang him high.
I don’t have a clue. Asked a question that is currently unanswered. The whole thing strikes me as odd for some reason.
More info -- headline & article sums it up:
No.
I apologize, actually. You see, this was originally part of a double-post. This was a repost due to concern over a few words in a post that exceeded the thread length.
So posted together, it made sense. Here was the other thread post today: Did fellow Mormons cover up officer's baby molestations?
In this thread, I focused upon excerpt info not contained in the other post to avoid redundancy.
Wow, she did it AGAIN!
You use the word “fellow”. Are you one?
So the attorney for the LDS "church" says that it did not do anything wrong. Wow! What a surprise! Come on, Restornu, even you have to take an attorney's statement about his client's innocence with a grain of salt.
This attorney specializes in "child abuse cases for the church" in Salt Lake City? Exactly how much work does he get?
Nice that you save all your venom for posters of pedophiles -- with nary a word about the pedophile perps!
(Thanks for bumping the thread)
(No; It was part of the headline)
What?
The anti-Mormon gang on FR wouldn’t accept truth if it slapped them upside the head I am afraid. That much is clear. The only thing that matters is attacking the Lord’s Church in any and every way conceived (or ill-conceived).
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