Posted by:
Breeze
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Date: January 30, 2015 07:08AM
I had a cousin in our ward, married to a dentist who was in the bishopric. I didn't like him. He was arrogant and creepy. I was divorced at the time, and my calling was with the LDS Single Adults. I became friends with a dental assistant, who got a great paying job with the bishopric dentist. A few weeks later, she called me, crying, wondering if she had to quit her job. She had a little girl to support. This bishopric dentist started making verbal innuendos, which rapidly progressed to wandering hands, to actually chasing her around the room. She was terrified of being alone with him.
In the meantime, this dentist's wife, my cousin, was spending her husband's money on fancy shopping trips to SF and NY, and she was too snobby to associate with any divorced single women. Her manners were rude, and she was unpleasant to be around. (Probably the poor thing was depressed.) The single dental assistant pressed charges of sexual harassment in the workplace, but I don't think she won. What did happen is that the dentist's wife divorced him. The wife had money and land, and as part of the settlement, he owned the land in front of his in-law's fancy house. Typical of Mormon men, the dentist got re married within a few months. My cousin had to work for a living, which, IMO, made her a better person, and her children rallied around her. The dentist also had other lawsuits of sexual harassment, and of molesting unconscious patients. He built a gigantic, ugly house directly in front of his in-laws, deliberately spoiling their view, and started going to the in-laws and wife's ward. He was never excommunicated or anything, and he continued to hold upper level positions. My cousin's parents died, they sold the house, and she moved as far away as possible. She still has her first job, which is a nice career helping other women who are going through nasty divorces.