Damned Mormons

[Clueless Morgan]

members of the Navajo Nation have sued The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, alleging the church placed Native American children in Mormon foster homes where they were sexually abused and that LDS leaders did not take adequate steps to protect those children.

http://fox13now.com/2016/03/24/lds-churc...r-program/

Seems Mormons have an appetite for people they think are descendants of cursed Jewish tribe. WTF?!

“The problem is, when they reported this to LDS social services, we don’t believe that the police was ever contacted,” Vernon said. “First and foremost, that’s what needs to happen.”

If such abuse is reported to clergy or other, similar people who hold "confidentiality" with those who come to them (like those in positions of authority in the Mormon church), then depending on the state in which the abuse is reported, that authority figure is not always required to tell the police. The instructions given in the Church Handbook of Instructions for what to do if a member reports abuse is not to call the police or file a report, it's to call a church hotline that connects you to the LDS church lawyers. I have heard that the LDS church lawyers have a sort of flow-chart that they use when one of these calls comes in, and they instruct the person on the other end whether they are legally required to report the abuse and, if not, I think they are encouraged to handle the situation "in-house."

Here's a link to a podcast by Mormon Stories where John Dehlin interviews a sex crimes prosecutor who has experience with prosecuting such cases involving the LDS church.
http://mormonstories.org/matt-long-sex-c...-policies/

Also, a Mormon Stories episode on the Indian Placement Program
http://mormonstories.org/indian-placement-program/