He was racked with guilt, second-guessing his decision to out the man who molested him as a young teen.
In February, he gave the Truth & Transparency Foundation, the nonprofit group behind the MormonLeaks website, permission to release a conversation he secretly recorded with Sterling Van Wagenen — a prominent Latter-day Saint filmmaker and co-founder of what would become the Sundance Film Festival. In that recording, Van Wagenen admitted to violating Escobar during a sleepover in 1993.
The fallout was swift: The Salt Lake Film Society severed ties with Van Wagenen and the University of Utah, where he worked as an instructor, put him on administrative leave.