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Anti-trafficking activist Tim Ballard says LDS Church excommunicated him to hide child abuse in the faith

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Tim Ballard accused people within the LDS Church of conspiring to have him booted from the faith to keep him from becoming a U.S. senator after he sounded alarms about pedophilia within the church ranks.