Mormon leaders knew Paul Adams was abusing kids. Why nothing happened
Paul Douglas Adams told Mormon church leaders he was sexually abusing his young daughters. The church leaders were told not to report it.
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Paul Douglas Adams told Mormon church leaders he was sexually abusing his young daughters. The church leaders were told not to report it.
Bishops in Arizona claim church officials told them not to contact police after one of their members allegedly confessed to sexually abusing his children.
The Associated Press has obtained nearly 12,000 pages of sealed records from an unrelated child sex abuse lawsuit against the Mormon church in West Virginia. The documents offer the most detailed and comprehensive look yet at the so-called help line Herrod called. Families of survivors who filed the lawsuit said they show it’s part of a system that can easily be misused by church leaders to divert abuse accusations away from law enforcement and instead to church attorneys who may bury the problem, leaving victims in harm’s way.