BYU students and victim advocates say sex assault recovery can depend on a bishop's reaction — but that lay clergy may not be adequately trained for that responsibility.
Victims don’t always recognize abuse
Kay, who is nonbinary, said they did not immediately recognize an encounter with a teaching assistant as abusive, even though they said the TA threatened to withhold help in a difficult class after Kay refused a sexual favor — and TAs aren’t allowed to date their students in the first place. Kay didn’t recognize the abuse even though, they said, they told the man “no.”
Unlike the bishop who quickly recognized abuse in the confession of the 2019 graduate, Kay’s bishop took them at their word and forbade Kay from taking the sacrament as part of the repentance process. Hanks said “a lot more training” for bishops would be an improvement but wondered if the problem runs deeper.
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