SALT LAKE CITY (UT)
The Salt Lake Tribune
March 26, 2018
By Peggy Fletcher Stack and Benjamin Wood
Amid a grass-roots outcry about sexually explicit interviews with children and sexual assault allegations leveled at a former Mormon mission leader, the LDS Church’s governing First Presidency unveiled revised guidelines Monday for one-on-one meetings between members and local lay leaders while emphasizing that most abuse allegations are “true and should be taken seriously.”
In a document titled “Preventing and Responding to Abuse,” congregational leaders in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints are encouraged to invite a parent or other adult to sit in an adjoining room when meeting with women and children.
A change to those instructions includes the option for the interviewee to ask a witness to sit in on the interview itself.
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