A Dear Media Original Podcast. A note before we get started. We will be using an AI of Coco's voice

to read her emails and Facebook messages. While Coco's voice is sometimes computer generated, her words are 100% real.

And a warning.

This episode includes mention of rape, sexual violence against children, and of suicide.

Listen with care.

There's no better place to start figuring out Coco Birthman's story than in Temple Square.

It's basically like the Vatican of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints.

And back in November when I visited Salt Lake City, Utah

for the first time, I basically landed at the airport

and came straight here.

So do you want me just give you a lay of the land?

And then I came back a few months later to show So do you want me just give you a lay of the land? Yeah.

And then I came back a few months later to show producer Karen Given what Coco experienced here

back in 2017, the first time that she stood in this place.

Oh, I hear the music.

Do you hear the music?

Coco told her story on Saints Unscripted.

It's a video channel for all things LDS, or Latter- Day Saints. It was in February 2017, yeah.

Coco was 23 years old at the time and she was living in Las Vegas more than 400 miles

south of Salt Lake.

That was an au pair.

So what you do, you live with host families,

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