A SHOCKING sex scandal is rocking the Mormon church to its very foundation after salacious allegations charge religious leaders systematically covered up a decades-long epidemic of sexual abuse and incest to protect the secretive maledominated institution!
Explosive lawsuits claim top officials at the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints did whatever it took to conceal horrifying sex abuse within their congregations and protect the organization's reputation and $100 billion coffers!
"There's extremely high rates of incest and sexual abuse going on in Mormon homes," says Kathleen Wallace, who claims she suffered abuse by a relative that was concealed by church officials. "This kind of abuse is rampant."
In one stunning case, a now-39-year old Riverside, Calif., woman who insists she was repeatedly molested as a child by her stepfather in the 1980s accused local bishops of using "intimidation and shaming" tactics to prevent her mother from going to the law!
Late last year, the church quietly settled her lawsuit for $1 million without admitting wrongdoing.
In another disturbing case, the Mormon institution was forced to cough up an undisclosed sum after being accused of hiding abuse by a teenager who preyed on children as young as three years old!
Meanwhile, two bishops and several other church leaders are accused of conspiracy and negligence for failing to report church member Paul Douglas Adams after he allegedly confessed to his local minister he was abusing his five-year-old daughter, identified only as MJ.
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