Former bishop; founder, Protect LDS Children
Sam Young
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Sexual Abuse and the Institutional Response
Former bishop; founder, Protect LDS Children
Young campaigned publicly from 2017 to end one-on-one interviews in which bishops ask minors sexually explicit questions, collecting accounts from members and staging a hunger strike and a march. In March 2018 the First Presidency announced that children, youth and women could invite an adult into such interviews. Young was excommunicated in September 2018. He is the clearest case in this topic of a member-driven campaign that produced a policy change and cost the campaigner his membership.
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The First Presidency changes the interview policyhinge
After a sustained public campaign by former bishop Sam Young and his organization Protect LDS Children, the First Presidency announced changes governing how bishops and stake presidencies conduct interviews with women and children and how they counsel abuse victims. Children, youth and women may now invite an adult to join them in what had traditionally been one-on-one interviews. Current Handbook guidance directs a leader meeting with a child, youth or woman to ask a parent or another adult to be in an adjoining room, foyer or hall.
Sam Young is excommunicated
Six months after the interview policy changed, the Church excommunicated Young, the former bishop whose campaign had pressed for the change. He had gathered and published accounts from members describing sexually explicit questioning of minors in bishops' interviews.
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