Al Baird explains why a cover-up is not a cover-up.

This is a recording of Al Baird around 2021/22 addressing a closed session of a group of older church members. These members were trying to gain clarity on the way the sin (it has not been disclosed exactly what the sin was) of a high ranking top leader, was handled and why it only came out 6 years later. 

I have removed all the names (the volume dips), including the church location, because really this could be anytime, any place in the history of the ICOC. 

This is how the sins of top leaders have always been handled - in secret and without the rank and file members ever being informed. And if the information does leak out, as it has here,  there are always calls to move on and accusations of bitterness or lack of trust if anyone dares to want more information or challenge any decision. 

I have two friends who were both publicly disfellowshipped twice for sexual immorality (having sex outside of marriage three times), one of them killed himself, not long after the second disfellowshipment. 

I have never heard of a top leader being publicly warned, let alone being disfellowshipped, but we now know that is not because of their "self-control" but because a corrupt system will always protect those who serve its interests.