- Victims: 1 victim,
LDS positions: Apostle, Missionary, - Criminal case: Never charged,
- Civil case: No civil case,
Gordon Hinckley Case 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.
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Hinckley died in 2008.
If you or someone you know was a sex abuse victim who Gordon Hinckley failed in some way, please consider reporting the failure anonymously to Floodlit.
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Suffering Abuse in the Shadow of Mormon Prophets - Christine Burton | Ep. 1621
Source type: Website
Publisher: Mormon Stories Podcast
Date published/accessed: 5 Jul 2022
archive 1 | archive 2Christine Burton tells her heartbreaking story of abuse, neglect and dismissal by multiple Mormon Prophets while they simultaneously publicly extolled the "virtues" of her abusive mother and father. Listen as she expresses her growth in healing the generational abuse, loving her gay son in troubled times, losing loved ones to shame and finding her voice! This Mormon Stories Podcast is one you won't soon forget!
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- Video title: Suffering Abuse in the Shadow of Mormon Prophets - Christine Burton | Ep. 1621
- Video description: Christine Burton tells her heartbreaking story of abuse, neglect and dismissal by multiple Mormon Prophets while they simultaneously publicly extolled the "virtues" of her abusive mother and father. Listen as she expresses her growth in healing the generational abuse, loving her gay son in troubled times, losing loved ones to shame and finding her voice! This Mormon Stories podcast is one you won't soon forget!
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