Utah state representative; Kirton McConkie attorney
Merrill F. Nelson
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Sexual Abuse and the Institutional Response
Utah state representative; Kirton McConkie attorney
AP reporting based on a help-line call log and a deposition transcript, filed in the Arizona Court of Appeals, showed that Nelson took the initial call from the bishop who reported the Adams abuse and had further conversations with two bishops over roughly two years. He was simultaneously a sitting Republican member of the Utah House and a lawyer for the firm that staffs the help line, which is why his role became a public question about the overlap of legislative and institutional-legal interests.
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The call log names an attorney and a legislator
AP reporting based on two pages of a call log and a deposition transcript, filed with the Arizona Court of Appeals by the plaintiffs, identified Merrill F. Nelson — then a Republican member of the Utah House and a Kirton McConkie lawyer — as the attorney who took the initial help-line call and who spoke with two bishops over roughly two years. In the same period Church spokesman Sam Penrod said: "As clergy, the bishop was required by Arizona law to maintain the confidentiality of the father's limited confession."
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