Very poor, unprofessional reporting, Noah Bond. "LDS leaders guilty of molesting Boy Scouts" ???? LDS LEADERS? What, exactly, did you want readers to infer from that? Here's a free Journalism 100 tip for you: If yellow journalism is NOT what you're shooting for, a less egregious way to smear the LDS would be to write: "Breaking News: A Few of the Child-molesting Scout Leaders were LDS." That way you still get to be sensationalistic without the misleading implication that the molesters were LDS apostles or stake presidents. If 3 or 4 of the thousands of molesters turned out to belong to a Baptist church, I wonder if you'd have headlined an article "Baptist Leaders Guilty of Molesting Boy Scouts." No? Hmmm. Almost seems like a double standard....

Child sex predators need to be kept far away from kids forever... They are very cunning and manipulative. They seek to work and volunteer in places where they have easy access to children. They know every trick on how to groom, threaten, lie, and put the fear of god into their victims and sometimes even their family members. They also appear to do a lot of goods things, they can be very charismatic and you may think they would never harm a child. They have to be this way, in order to not get caught and to continue to abuse. They count of their victims to stay silent. BUT, an even more powerful danger is when high ranking officials enable, empower, and cover up these crimes against kids. They need to be held accountable for allowing more innocent kids to be sexually abused. It is and was a crime to sexually abuse a child. Child sex abuse thrives in secrecy and secret systems that allow it to continue to this day. Keep in mind that child predators rarely have only one victim. So if you have been harmed by anyone in the Boy Scouts, church, or any institution, your silence only hurts, and by speaking up, contacting the police, and exposing the truth, there is a chance for healing, and protecting others. Judy Jones, SNAP Midwest Associate Director, USA, 636-433-2511. snapjudy@gmail.com, (SNAP, the Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests,) is the worlds oldest and largest support group for clergy abuse victims. SNAP was founded in 1988 and has more than 12,000 members. Despite the word priest in our title, we have members who were molested by religious figures of all denominations, including nuns, rabbis, bishops, and Protestant ministers and increasingly, victims who were assaulted in a wide range of institutional settings like summer camps, athletic programs, Boy Scouts, etc.