Joseph Layton Bishop Jr. (born 1932) is a retired administrator of colleges and other post-secondary educational institutions and a Latter-day Saint devotional and motivational author.
[6] The LDS Church assigned Bishop to serve as president[7] of the Argentina Buenos Aires North Mission from 1978 to 1981.
[5] After his retirement, Bishop and his wife, Carolyn, served as the LDS Church's area welfare agents for Central America, headquartered in Guatemala, 1994–1996.
[12] McKenna Denson, a woman alleged to have been sexually assaulted by Bishop in 1984, recorded an interview with him at a hotel conference room in Chandler, Arizona in December 2017,[13] which was leaked to the public in March 2018.
Local county prosecutor's office said it likely would have filed charges against Bishop based on Denson's allegations, however, the statute of limitations for rape in Utah in the 1980s was four years.
[13] In April 2018, Denson filed suit against Bishop and the LDS Church in federal court in Salt Lake City for redress concerning her mental, physical, and economic hardships as caused by the alleged sexual assault and battery, negligent and intentional infliction of emotional distress, fraud, fraudulent nondisclosure, and fraudulent concealment.