Anti-trafficking activist Tim Ballard says LDS Church ‘excommunicated’ him to hide child abuse in the faith – The Salt Lake Tribune

Anti-trafficking activist Tim Ballard says LDS Church ‘excommunicated’ him to hide child abuse in the faith  The Salt Lake Tribune

Tim Ballard accused people within the LDS Church of conspiring to have him booted from the faith to keep him from becoming a U.S. senator after he sounded alarms about pedophilia within the church ranks. (Screenshot) This image is taken from "Backfire," Tim Ballard's nearly four-hour video posted recently to YouTube in which he accuses individuals in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints of conspiring to keep him from being elected to the U.S. Senate because they didn't want him exposing child abuse in the church. Anti-trafficking celebrity Tim Ballard is accusing people within The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints of derailing his U.S.

Senate bid and booting him from the faith after he brought them what he has called evidence of pedophilia within the religion. In a nearly four-hour video posted recently on YouTube, Ballard alleges he supplied “an abundance of evidence about child abuse in the church ranks being covered up” to a member of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles, the second highest presiding body of the global church. Ballard alleges that the church leader told him, “Don’t go down this rabbit hole,” but he said that he “knew that Jesus would condemn me if I didn’t go down this rabbit hole, so I continued.” “They knew that Senator Ballard would expose that