(Rick Bowmer | AP) Republican Rep. Merrill Nelson speaks during a special session at the Utah Capitol in 2018 in Salt Lake City. Nelson, a Utah lawmaker and prominent attorney for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints advised a church bishop not to report a confession of child sex abuse to authorities, a decision that allowed the abuse to continue for years, according to records filed in a 2021 lawsuit by three of Paul Adams’ children.