Mormon officials allowed sex abuse.

https://apnews.com/article/Mormon-church-sexual-abuse-investigation-e0e39cf9aa4fbe0d8c1442033b894660

Obviously you can read the horrific details for yourself if you're inclined. The reporter who broke the story worked on the case depicted in Spotlight (Mark Ruffalo played him in the film). This isn't some shoddily reported, cheap hatchet job. This is a very real, very serious problem and the LDS Church is, deservedly, going to pay a huge price, in terms of PR, yes, but also literally in terms of money.

Because it's such a sensitive question, and because it's such a serious set of allegations, I think everyone would benefit from confining the discussion to the actually substantiated facts and specific claims being made, without downplaying or exaggerating their gravity.

But the long and short of it, for now at least, appears to be that in situations where protecting young victims of sexual abuse and protecting the church and church leaders from legal liability were in any measurable degree of tension with each other, the church systematically prioritized the latter over the former, Even if that also meant protecting and enabling abusers.

This was and is a grave and grievous sin, and something for which the church and church leaders must engage not just in soul searching but in the most serious kind of repentance. Then again, it occurs to me that the belief that the church can do no wrong—certainly nothing for which it should ever have to even apologize let alone repent—is basically a precondition that ensures things like this will happen.

Just an absolutely damning, gutting, horrific set of revelations.