CALIFORNIA
The Desert Sun
Reza Gostar, The Desert Sun May 2, 2014
PALM SPRINGS – A lawsuit filed Friday against the The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, a former church bishop and a former missionary, claims a woman was repeatedly sexually abused when she was a teenager in Rancho Mirage and Palm Desert.
The lawsuit claims the victim, Jacqueline Tyler, then 13, was repeatedly abused by a missionary from July to November 1985.
As a result of the abuse, Tyler gave birth to a child on June 30, 1986, the lawsuit alleges.
The missionary, described only as in his 20s at the time, began working for a Mormon church in the same area where Tyler and her family lived, according to attorney Michael J. Kinslow.
The family was Mormon and “their home was a place where he could seek hospitality, food and water when he was working out in the community,” wrote Kinslow in the complaint, adding that, as Mormons, the family had a duty to provide such hospitality.
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