How Mormon church ‘help line’ hid child sex abuse (Video)

(8 Aug 2022) RESTRICTION SUMMARY: PART MUST CREDIT COCHISE COUNTY SHERIFF'S OFFICE ASSOCIATED PRESS Bisbee, Arizona -  30 October 2021 1. Various of swings ASSOCIATED PRESS Bisbee, Arizona - 28 October 2021 ++COVERED++ 2. SOUNDBITE (English) MJ, Daughter of Paul Adams: "I do think that other people knew." ASSOCIATED PRESS Bisbee, Arizona -  31 October 2021 3. Drone of swing set and LDS Bisbee ward ASSOCIATED PRESS Bisbee, Arizona -  28 October 2021 4. Drone of the Adams neighborhood LEGAL RECORD OBTAINED BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Sierra Vista, Arizona - 19 May 2021 ++SOT PARTIALLY COVERED++ 5. SOUNDBITE (English) Emily Reynolds, former Bisbee ward member, with Lynne Cadigan, Plaintiff's Attorney during her deposition: Cadigan: "Do you have any regrets about not calling the police on Paul Adams?" Reynolds: "Absolutely, because things could have gone better a lot earlier." ASSOCIATED PRESS Tucson, Arizona - 26 October 2021 6. SOUNDBITE (English) Lynne Cadigan, Plaintiffs' Attorney: "Who should be held accountable for this? Someone has to pay the price for the enormous damage done to these children." ASSOCIATED PRESS Tucson, Arizona - 30 October 2021 7. Various of youngest daughter, abuse survivor ASSOCIATED PRESS Bisbee, Arizona - 29 October 2021 ++SOT PARTIALLY COVERED++ 8. SOUNDBITE (English) Brian McIntyre, Cochise County Attorney: "Who doesn't want to protect just every kid that's there. And maybe if changes happen, maybe there won't be another one that suffers five more years because of this... Sorry" ON SCREEN TEXT: On June 17, 2021, Leizza Adams gave a deposition in a lawsuit filed against The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, widely known as the Mormon church. ON SCREEN TEXT: She said the church knew for years that her husband was sexually abusing their oldest daughter. LEGAL RECORDS OBTAINED BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Bisbee, Arizona - 17 June 2021 9. Recorded deposition of Leizza Adams UPSOUND (English) "Did he tell you in that meeting with you and Bishop Herrod that he had sexually molested your oldest daughter? Yes." ASSOCIATED PRESS Bisbee, Arizona - 28 October 2021 10. Drone of dirt road leading to the Adams home ASSOCIATED PRESS New York - 28 May 2022 11. SOUNDBITE (English) Michael Rezendes, AP Investigative Reporter: "Paul Adams was a US Border Patrol employee. He was sexually abusing his daughter and taking videos of the abuse. ASSOCIATED PRESS Bisbee, Arizona - 1 November 2021 12. Border Patrol vehicle near Arizona, Mexico border ASSOCIATED PRESS New York - 28 May 2022 ++SOT PARTIALLY COVERED++ 13. SOUNDBITE (English) Michael Rezendes, AP Investigative Reporter: "The Adams had a second daughter and Paul Adams began abusing his infant daughter." COCHISE COUNTRY SHERIFF'S OFFICE Bisbee, Arizona - 8 February 2017 14. Mug shot of Paul Adams after arrest ASSOCIATED PRESS Bisbee, Arizona - 31 October 2021 15. Various exteriors of the LDS Bisbee Ward ASSOCIATED PRESS Bisbee, Arizona - 29 October 2021 ++SOT PARTIALLY COVERED++ 16. SOUNDBITE (English) Brian McIntyre, Cochise County Attorney: "Most churches have some form of confession. And in this case, the Paul Adams confessed to his bishop that he was sexually acting out and that that included with his daughter. And that there may have been videotape, videotaping of the offenses with his daughter." HOMELAND SECURITY INVESTIGATIONS Bisbee, Arizona - 12 June 2020 17. Various transcripts of an HSI interview with Former LDS Bishop John Herrod ASSOCIATED PRESS Tuscon, Arizona - 26 October 2021 ++SOT PARTIALLY COVERED++ 19. Cadigan's hands ++GRAPHIC++ Subscribe for more Breaking News: http://smarturl.it/AssociatedPress Website: https://apnews.com Twitter: https://twitter.com/AP Facebook: https://facebook.com/APNews Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/APNews/ You can license this story through AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/metadata/youtube/186ad53b89314528a3bc3f62f91089f6