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The woman accusing Missionary Training Center president of rape is holding a news conference in Salt Lake City

A day after filing a lawsuit alleging sexual abuse by the then-president of the LDS Missionary Training Center, the woman at the center of the controversy is expected to speak at a news conference.

McKenna Denson alleges in her lawsuit filed Wednesday against The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints that the church placed Joseph L. Bishop in charge of the training center in Provo despite “red flag sexual improprieties” years earlier.

The lawsuit comes less than a month after MormonLeaks published a recorded conversation between Denson and Bishop. In the recording, the woman confronts Bishop, saying he tried to rape her in early 1984 in a “secret room” of the Missionary Training Center.