Attorneys are asking a federal judge to set a jury trial in the lawsuit filed by a former Mormon missionary who says she was sexually assaulted by a Missionary Training Center leader in 1984.
McKenna Denson alleges that The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints committed fraud by presenting MTC President Joseph L. Bishop as a safe and trustworthy leader, placing him in charge of the faith’s flagship training center in Provo despite “red flag sexual improprieties” years earlier.
Church attorneys wrote in a recent court filing that the case would not be ready for a jury trial until March 2020.