Audio recordings of the meetings over the next four months, obtained by The Associated Press, show how [Utah attorney and head of the church’s Risk Management Division] Rytting, despite expressing concern for what he called John [Goodrich]’s “significant sexual transgression,” would employ the risk management playbook that has helped the church keep child sexual abuse cases secret. In particular, the church would discourage [Bishop Michael] Miller from testifying, citing a law that exempts clergy from having to divulge information about child sex abuse that is gleaned in a confession. Without Miller’s testimony, prosecutors dropped the charges, telling Lorraine that her impending divorce and the years that had passed since Chelsea {Goodrich}'s alleged abuse might prejudice jurors.
When the LDS church’s legal council, “advised the bishop not to report the abuse to civil authorities … that failure to report allowed the church member, the late Paul Adams, to repeatedly rape his two daughters and allegedly abuse one of his four sons for many years,” then, yes, I will be blaming the church.
I think you’re confusing the inability for prosecutors to hold “clergy volunteers” accountable for failure to report with being a decent human being and reporting the monster. You may think that Adams is getting his full torment in the Outer Darkness in death, but a surprising percentage of the US would like to see others like him face their torment in this life as well.
Did you even read the article? You’re talking about an entirely different situation in a different state.
They are pointing out the pattern the church follows. The church protects child rapists and leaves the children to twist in the wind.
That’s not really true, but it is the narrative that the Associated Press is attempting to spin with this article. However, this is all irrelevant to the actual topic which is being discussed. You can find the link to the Associated Press article being discussed at the top of the page.