Hello, everyone, and welcome to another edition of Mormon Stories podcast.

I'm your host, John DeLynn. It's February 11th, 2025.

And today we have a very sobering, somber and unpleasant and unfortunate sort of, but very important story to share with you all.

Today, we have attorneys Ann Andrews and Kimberly.

Tell me how to pronounce your name again, Kimberly?

Degonia.

Degonia. Thank you. I need to practice that. I'm sure I'll be saying it more in the future.

We have some very serious new rounds of allegations against the Church of Jesus Christ of Lattery Saints or the Mormon Church for systemically covering up

sex abuse for protecting perpetrators at the expense of victims.

We have covered this topic, unfortunately, way too often on Mormon Stories podcast,

and there's a whole new round.

And it's not just one case, it's not just a couple of cases.

It's a whole cluster of cases, not just in the state of California, but also in Utah and also nationwide.

And then in addition, there's now a federal proceeding under sort of new, as I understand it to be, sort of newish federal trafficking legislation or guidelines

or policies as well. I don't know all the legal terms, but that's why I have Colby Reddish here

as my sort of co-hosts today. Colby, welcome to Mormon Stories podcast. Welcome back. We're so glad to have you.

Hi, John. Thank you so much for having me, even on such a serious topic.

For folks that remember, this is the topic that basically catalyzed my faith crisis.

And so I still care a lot about this and still care a lot about the children that are in the church.

Yeah, yeah, absolutely. So we'll include in the show notes the interview that we did with you, Colby.

But just bizarrely and strangely, what makes this case, one of these cases even more just

gut-wrenching for me is that it involves a family that I knew.

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