was excommunicated from the LDS church in 2007 for personal conduct unrelated to child sexual abuse.) But a church bishop, Paul Tonga, made the idiotic decision to investigate the matter himself. Burrell Jr.'s former wife, we've learned, took her children's complaints that they were being abused to the church. left the Community of Christ in 1982 and joined Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS), or Mormon church. The RFT's sister paper in Kansas City, The Pitch, sums up the situation thusly:īurrell Mohler Jr. The take-home message of the piece? Both churches failed to step in and stop the unspeakable abuse. The latter feature lays out the Mohler family tree, details all of the disgusting deeds in question and sets it all against the backdrop of the family's involvement with the Mormon Church and an obscure offshoot called the Community of Christ, headquartered in Independence and also founded by Joseph Smith. Turns out the article in the Post was cribbed from a much longer and much more compelling piece that led Sunday's Kansas City Star. Along with his brother and four sons, the 74-year-old Independence, Missouri, native is accused of repeatedly raping his elementary school-aged granddaughters. Yesterday on Daily RFT we had a couple bones to pick with a misleading headline in the local daily and the bible-thumping defenders of Burrell E.
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