The LDS Church and the former president of the Missionary Training Center in Provo are seeking to have a lawsuit alleging the MTC leader sexually assaulted a woman while she was a missionary there in 1984 dismissed because the statute of limitations has long since expired.
In a filing in federal court, attorneys for Joseph Bishop, accused of the assault, and The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints contend that “the statute of limitations for all causes of action ran in the late 1980s or early 1990s, and Ms. Denson’s causes of action are time barred.”
“Plaintiff McKenna Denson initiated this lawsuit amid a media flourish in early April 2018,” they wrote.