Last year, my colleague Mike Rezendes and I wrote a series of stories revealing the legal playbook used by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints to keep child sex abuse secret, a system that sometimes keeps predators free and children in harm's way.
In the aftermath of those stories, sources approached us with hours of secret recordings alleging that the head of the church’s Risk Management Division, Paul Rytting, was personally involved in a series of meetings with a woman alleging abuse that resulted in the cover-up of yet another case. If true, it was an important story.
We collaborated with Reveal from The Center for Investigative Reporting for a public radio show and podcast.
READ the AP Investigation here (w/links to previous coverage).
LISTEN to the Reveal podcast here.
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