I read all the past post, and yes not all elders are bad, but when I was 14 I was raped by an elder who was also a family member, only after it all came out after it was found out he was raping others,cheating on his wife and using drugs. The elders told my mother that it would all be taken care of.... He was Disfellowshipped was was aable to return after one year! when there was a protest we were told he express how sorry he was about all he had done and he had turned his life around. and all we had to do was to stay from around him.
My Life has been a mess and someone I trusted done it do me. So when I got disfellowshiped I was told my actions were unlady like and I shamed my mother.Having premaritail sex was wrong, I told them I never had sex unitll an elder had sex with me I was put out!
When I started having more issues as an adult I was told by another group of elders that I needed to get over it that the matter was handled and unless I had two new eye wintness and new info the matter was closed!
and the issue of women beating their children in the lady's room..Yes it true. They want children to sit for hours and when they play they take them to the bathroom and beat them my mother did it her friends did it.