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Date: January 16, 2018 10:39AM
I will be there to support Sam so please come and join the force for good!
https://invisiblescubit.wordpress.com/2018/01/13/news-conference-its-time-to-roar-for-the-children/News Release–Protect LDS Children
When: January 18, 2018 10am
What: News conference
Where: 50 West Club & Café located at 50 W. Broadway in Salt Lake City.
Event: Protect LDS Children
Current status of the Petition: Protect the Children—Stop Sexually Explicit Interviews of Mormon Youth.
Large collection of survivor stories.
Announcement of the March-for-the-Children to deliver the petition to the Church Office Building.
Three speakers will be on the podium:
Sam Young, concerned father, former Mormon bishop, petition organizer;
Joelle Casteix, sex abuse victims’ advocate, Western Regional Director of SNAP, the Survivors Network;
Natasha Helfer Parker, a certified sex therapist and licensed marriage & family therapist.
For decades, it has been common place for a significant number of LDS Bishops to pose questions of a sexual nature to children, all alone, behind closed doors. This practice has caused incalculable damage to our children.
The consequences range from childhood self-loathing all the way to sexual abuse and suicide. The goal of Protect-LDS-Children is to bring a halt to these dangerous and damaging interviews.
The petition has now garnered well over 10,000 signatures. 5,000 of the signers are from Utah. Many of them are active LDS members.
To date more than 1,000 survivor stories have been collected. They recount horrifying and heartrending interviews, the accompanying trauma and the lasting damage. All of this has been done to our children behind closed doors of bishop’s offices.
The time has come to bring this practice to an immediate stop. How this will be accomplished will be a central part of the news conference message.