Posted by:
Mother Who Knows
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Date: April 22, 2018 06:10PM
Well, I did!
A wealthy real estate mogul, in our ward, who was voted one of Utah's "Most Eligible Bachelors" molested a teen-aged boy, and the boy killed himself. The man bought off the boy's family. I read the newspaper articles from the archives, myself. I was going to put him in a leadership position in the Regional Singles, but decided, um, no.... He had the calling of teaching the teens in Sunday school.
Even when they do know for sure, from newspaper reports, people who know the perps, former victims, the cult accepts these members--as long as they pay tithing!
I also would do background checks on anyone I was thinking of dating, in order to protect my children. Yikes! What an eye-opener those checks were! I did background checks for some of my friends, who didn't follow the warnings. My best friend, and my SIL both found divorce records (open for anyone to read) that one fiancee had broken his wife's arm and had thrown her off a second-story balcony, and the other had been divorced on the grounds of "extreme physical cruelty." The both married their fiancees, anyway, and both were beaten. Two divorced women with houses in the neighborhood got married out of the Mormon singles, after very brief dating-periods. One was conned into mortgaging her house, so that her new husband could start his own plumbing business. The business never got off the ground, and my neighbor ended up losing her house, and getting another divorce. My beautiful closest neighbor married a doctor, who had been a bishop. Everyone knew him, and knew that he had cheated on his wife, but my neighbor married him anyway, and the ward loved him. He had my neighbor mortgage her house, in order to add onto it, and it ended up in his name. He cheated on her, divorced her, and took her house, besides!
We had a handsome chiropractor in the ward who raped his nurses (a fact that a police officer told me). He was the EQ President. A friend in the Mormon singles married him, anyway, when he told her he was innocent of the rapes. They got married in the temple. Later, he brutalized her sexually, too, and she divorced him.
When I first moved into the ward, people wanted to set me up with the stake president, who's wife had died a few years ago. He was good looking and charismatic, but my mother said that there was something "phony" about him. I met a woman who had known him since college, and she told me that he had a shotgun wedding with his wife, and then cheated on her, for many years, as a habit. He had made advances to the woman, and also to a married friend of mine in the ward. Sometimes, background checks are easy! Everyone thought I was crazy to not go out with this man, until a neighbor walked in on him, and caught him in the act with his wife. The wife was only 22 years old, and the mother of twins. It was a huge scandal, which everyone tried to cover up, and everyone was completely SURPRISED?
Another friend in the singles wanted her husband to be excommunicated, when he ran off with another woman. This same adulterous stake president was the head of the court of love, and he let my friend's husband stay a member, and the husband and the other woman were married 5 months later--in the temple.
The Mormon cult is a good-old-boy's club, run by dominant, wealthy white males.