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Former Mormon bishop highlighted in AP investigation arrested on felony child sex abuse charges

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A former bishop in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints who was featured in an Associated Press investigation into how the church protects itself from allegations of sexual abuse was arrested by police in Virginia this week after being indicted on charges he sexually abused his daughter while accompanying her on a school trip when she was a child, according to court filings.

and federal authorities had been searching for Goodrich after a grand jury in Williamsburg on Jan. 17 found probable cause that he committed four felonies, including rape by

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