The Pulitzer-winning journalist who investigated child sex abuse cases in Ch_JesusChrist found “the entire operation of the [faith's] help line is enveloped in secrecy.”
— talked about the story, how he came upon it, how he reported it and how it compares to his previous reporting on this sensitive subject.I generally read stories about the Mormon church whenever I came across them in the newspapers, primarily because of my interest in the Catholic Church. I got interested in the story when I read a small piece about the [abuse] case in West Virginia [against the LDS Church], and it referred to these sealed records.
Michael Rezendes poses for a photograph in the AP bureau in Boston on Tuesday, Sept. 3, 2019. Rezendes recently reported on the handling of child sex abuse cases in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. How did this case involving the LDS Church compare to what the Spotlight team exposed about the priest abuse scandal in and around Boston?
Well, I mean, the Catholic Church does not destroy its records. And so, we were able to get thousands and thousands of pages of internal records ... which showed that there was a systemic problem, at that point, at least within the Boston Archdiocese. We were not able to show that this was a systemic problem churchwide, although it’s clear now that this is aI’m sure there are many such instances.
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