THE WEEKLY REVEAL
Saturday, July 20, 2024
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Hello! In this issue:
- An unprecedented look at the methods the Mormon church uses to keep child sexual abuse cases secret.
- We now know how many police guns end up at crime scenes—and about the police practice that’s allowing them to end up there.
- Amazon’s Prime Day happened this past week. Our reporting showed how the sale injures workers.
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THIS WEEK’S PODCAST
Hidden Confessions of the Mormon Church
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The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints' Salt Lake Temple in Salt Lake City is shown in 2019. Credit: Rick Bowmer/Associated Press
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Chelsea Goodrich and her mother, Lorraine, were locked in discussions with the director of the Mormon church’s risk management division, Paul Rytting. One of Rytting’s jobs is to protect the church from legal liability, including sexual abuse lawsuits.
The women had come to the meeting with one clear request: Would the church allow a local Idaho bishop who heard Chelsea’s father’s confession of abuse to testify against him at trial?
In this week’s episode, produced in collaboration with The Associated Press, secret audio recordings expose a legal playbook used by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints that keeps evidence of sex abuse out of reach of authorities.
AP reporters Michael Rezendes and Jason Dearen investigate what happened after a former Mormon bishop, John Goodrich, was accused of sexual abuse—and the family pressed Mormon church officials on whether they were going to make decisions that would help Chelsea or her father.
Rezendes and Dearen also sit down with guest host Michael Montgomery to discuss a major development in the Goodrich case since this investigation was released last year—and why states across the country continue to exempt clergy from mandatory reporting laws that are meant to protect children from abuse.
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We know now that 52,529 former police weapons were recovered at crime scenes nationwide between 2006 and 2021. We had to fight for years to get the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives to release that number—then we partnered with The Trace and CBS News to better understand how these former police guns end up being used in crimes.
Listen: How Police Guns End Up in the Hands of Criminals
Read: Why It Took Seven Years to Get One Statistic About Guns
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This week was Amazon’s heavily marketed and highly anticipated annual sale: Prime Day (which is so popular it’s now actually two days). Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders announced a new committee report that found that workers have been getting injured at a high rate during the sale, due to Amazon’s relentless push for speed. But Reveal newsletter readers already knew that, since we broke the story in 2019 that the company’s obsession with speed had turned its warehouses into injury mills. Our reporting has spurred numerous bills and laws around the country aimed at holding Amazon accountable–and our transparency lawsuit forced all employers, including Amazon, to start making injury data public.
Catch up with our most recent Reveal episode from the investigation: A Reckoning at Amazon.
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This issue of The Weekly Reveal was written by Kate Howard and edited by Nikki Frick. If you enjoyed this issue, forward it to a friend. Have some thoughts? Drop us a line with feedback or ideas!
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