Gordon Bitner Hinckley

Summary

Gordon Hinckley was a Mormon apostle who was the president of the LDS church from 1995 until his death in 2008.

In 2022, Mormon Stories Podcast published an interview in which Hinckley’s niece said that she told Hinckley, when he was president of the LDS church, that her parents had sexually abused her. The victim’s mother was Hinckley’s sister.

Hinckley failed to provide comfort or validation to the victim, instead telling her, “Those things happen and you need to put it behind you and go forward with your life,” she said in the MSP interview.

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Gordon Hinckley was an apostle in the LDS church and became the president of the church in 1995.

Hinckley allegedly failed to help a child sexual abuse victim and extended family member who came to him to report being sexually abused by her parents when she was a child.

Related Mormon sex abuse cases:

• Christine Hinckley Robinson
• Oliver Preston Robinson

Hinckley died in 2008.

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