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Lawsuit: Mormon Church leaders in San Diego turned a blind eye to a report of molestation

Warning: This story contains graphic accounts of the sexual abuse of a minor. Some of the details are disturbing. Elizabeth P says her father, an elder at a San Diego-area chapter of the Mormon Church, told her that he became sexually aroused the first time he held her as an infant. Sexual abuse by her father, who served at a ward in Lemon Grove, is all she ever knew from the days after she was born in 1983 to when she was a teenager. Her father, Maynard McFarland, was convicted of molesting

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