4,034+ reports of sexual abuse in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS/Mormon)

The Mormon church has not published a list of leaders or volunteers convicted of sex crimes. FLOODLIT has found:

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Mormon sexual abuse news

  • BREAKING: New lawsuit says Mormon bishopric counselor in Illinois, Richard Clarke McClung, raped an 8-year-old girl after being charged for abusing another child and not released by his LDS stake president. McClung was convicted of child sexual abuse in 2007 and 2014. The plaintiff says a bishop told her she needed to repent “for not being able to forgive.”
  • Feb. 12, 2025 – New lawsuit against LDS church says a Utah bishop failed to report child sexual abuse to police after the plaintiff’s mother alerted him. The alleged perpetrator, Karey Zimmerman, was only “forced to stop taking sacraments and participating in religious ceremonies,” so was able to sexually abuse the plaintiff again years later.
  • Feb. 12, 2025 – At a court hearing today regarding Mormon apostle’s grandson David McConkie (a former stake president) charged with felony sexual assault on a child, his defense attorney said the case remains “status quo.” Trial is scheduled for this summer (arrest was in 2023). An LDS leader allegedly knew of sexual abuse allegations in 2008 but didn’t report.
  • Feb. 10, 2025 – A $25 million lawsuit against the Mormon church says a Vancouver, Washington bishop knew of child sexual abuse allegations but failed to report to police.
  • Feb. 10, 2025 – Former Mormon bishop Scott Owen pleaded guilty to sex abuse charges. An LDS bishop, a stake president (his business partner) and Utah DOPL all allegedly failed to report to police.
  • Feb. 7, 2025 – BREAKING: New lawsuit against Mormon church says temple worker sexually assaulted a man during 1984 anointing ritual in Los Angeles Temple, and plaintiff was “led to believe that the molestation [was] part of his anointing” until 2024, when he heard a podcast where ex-Mormons shared similar stories.
  • Feb. 4, 2025 – Phil Bussey, a former Mormon seventy and mission president, has been accused in a civil lawsuit of helping a convicted child sexual abuser (Paydan Bussey) to get removed from two sex offender registries, and later inviting him to Phil’s mission in Spain, where Paydan allegedly molested a child.
  • Feb. 3, 2025 – Mark Stevens, a former Mormon bishop, has been charged with sexual assault of a 16-year-old girl.
  • Jan. 9, 2025 – FLOODLIT is preparing a report about the recent wave of civil sexual abuse lawsuits filed against the LDS church in California.
  • Dec. 13, 2024 – KUTV altered a news headline and article text to remove Mormon church references 3 hours after reporting on an LDS youth temple prep instructor and mission leader charged with multiple felonies stemming from an undercover police sting operation. He allegedly attempted to meet a 13-year-old for sexual assault.

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