EXCLUSIVE: Mormon leaders ignored our family's 'rampant' incest abuse: Devastating claims of two young sisters assaulted by the same family member - and accuse the church of a cover-up to PROTECT their abuser

Daily Mail UK ^ | November 26, 2023 | Miles Dilworth

[Morgana]

A few months before her 18th birthday, Katie Wallace hatched a plan to overdose on heroin.

She and a male friend who had her hooked on the drug would do it together, ending years of misery to which the 17-year-old saw no way out.

It was not the path the Mormon church, in which Katie had been raised, had ordained for her.

But it was one that she holds the religion responsible for, after church leaders allegedly covered up years of rampant sexual abuse and incest within her family.

For Katie, now 39, it began when she was four. Unbeknown to her, her abuser, a close relative, had assaulted her older sister, Becky, years before.

The church knew but did nothing, allowing a 'vicious circle' of abuse to break out within the family, the sisters claim.

They have bravely shared their story with DailyMail.com to expose what they believe is an 'epidemic' of sexual abuse in Mormon homes, which they and countless other victims claim is buried by ecclesiastical leaders in a bid to protect the church's reputation.

It comes after our investigation revealed last week that the church is facing legal action over allegations it has 'maintained a pattern and practice' of hiding abuse from authorities.

More than a dozen current and former members of the church have come forward with shocking claims of a culture of 'cover ups' - defying leaders who are alleged to have 'silenced' and 'threatened' those who speak out. A model Mormon family

Becky, now 48, was the second eldest and Katie the second youngest of five siblings raised in an authoritarian Mormon family in Colorado.

They were taught to obey their parents, who dictated strict rules on clothing and routines.

[MeganC]

“It’s a cult, Jim!”

[IamConservative]

Same thing happens with largely the same result in the Amish Community.

[DIRTYSECRET]

Catholics are worse. Just ask the MSM.

[Flaming Conservative]

I wish they’d stop calling it a church; it’s not a church, it’s a cult. By definition, a church is a group that is Christian. Mormons are NOT Christians. Christians believe that Jesus is God incarnate, that Jesus is the only begotten Son of the Father, that He was with the Father in the Beginning, that all things were made by Him, and that without Him nothing was made that was made. He was crucified for the sin of the world, died, was buried and rose again on the third day, and is seated at the right hand of the Father, ever living to make intercession for us.

[No name given]

Well said.

[No name given]

Exactly.