Michael Jensen preyed on children in the close-knit Mormon community around Martinsburg, West Virginia. At least, that's how law enforcement officials and at least half a dozen families see it now.
But for years, Jensen was a trusted member of the local church community, a young man whom Mormon leaders praised as a role model for youths — and recommended as a babysitter for one child after another, even as reports allegedly came back to some church volunteers that Jensen was sexually abusing boys and girls as young as two.
But a group of parents say now that it's not just Jensen who should be held responsible; it's the much larger Mormon hierarchy in West Virginia that they believe failed to respond appropriately to complaints about Jensen.