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David John Keller (1970 – ) was a Mormon temple worker, Sunday school teacher and former stake presidency member in Paradise, Cache Valley, Utah; admitted...
Bryan Randall Brown (1972 – ) was a former Mormon stake president 2009-2015 Corpus Christi, TX and active bishop in Copperas Cove, TX area when...
Matthew Kennington (1970 – ) was a Mormon church member and high school teacher at Maeser Preparatory Academy in Lindon, Utah; was convicted of four...
Dennis Crawford (1946 – ) was a Mormon church member in Twin Falls, Idaho and in Utah; convicted in 2022 of AGGRAVATED SEXUAL ABUSE OF...
Dale Heckel (1976 – ) was a Mormon church member in West Valley, Utah; convicted of sexual abuse in 2009; is a registered sex offender...
Jay Forscutt (1958 – ) was a Mormon church member in Nephi, Utah; convicted in 2022 of sexual exploitation of a minor; sentenced to eight...
Jason Kilgore (1982 – ) was a Mormon church member in Mountain Green, Utah; charged in 2024 with four felony counts of aggravated child sexual...
Daniel Scott Larsen (1982 – ) was a Mormon church member in Winslow, Arizona; convicted of sexually abusing 4 minors from ages 5-15, some dating...
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is appealing a federal court ruling that denied insurance reimbursement for a $32 million settlement paid to...
Andrew Bowers (1988 – ) was a Mormon church member in Salt Lake City, Utah; convicted of SEXUAL ABUSE OF A CHILD/2ND DEGREE FELONY in...
Scott Bowers (1955 – ) was a Mormon church member in Salt Lake City, Utah; April 2006 was convicted of 2 counts of: SEXUAL ABUSE...
Daniel Mooy (1972 – ) was a Mormon church member in St. George, Utah; pleaded guilty to two counts of lewdness and intoxication in April...
Gerald Salcido (1954 – ) was a Mormon church member and police officer in Mesa, Arizona and in Provo, Utah; accused of child sexual abuse...
Arvid Oakley (1943 – ) was a Mormon church member in Springville, Utah; accused of sexually abusing several girls who were between 4 and 6...
Arthur Bishop (1952 – 1988) was a Mormon boy scout leader in Utah; was excommunicated in the 1970s; later molested multiple children and killed five...
Douglas Bishop (1960 – ) was raised Mormon; arrested in 1983 and convicted in 1984 of three counts of sodomy on a child and one...
Jason Calder (1976 – ) was a Mormon church member and mental health counselor in Utah; accused of raping a teenage patient; pleaded guilty; sentenced...
Kent Schank (1986 – ) was a Mormon church member in Henderson, Nevada; pleaded guilty to POSSESSION OF VISUAL PRESENTATION DEPICTING SEXUAL CONDUCT OF A...
Stephen McKean (1993 – ) was a Mormon church member in Springville, Utah and a BYU professor; arrested in April 2026 and charged with distributing...
Richard Morriss (1973 – ) was a Mormon church member and divorce lawyer in Meridian, Idaho; accused of rape in 2022; pleaded guilty in 2025...
LDS Sex Abuse: Special Reports
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Floodlit.org has learned that from 1963 to 1989 (26 straight years), five Mormon men who knew of the Boy Scout perversion files held the paid...
Yesterday, we mentioned the disturbing case of Richard Kenneth Ray, a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS church) who admitted...
Floodlit.org has learned that in 2012, LDS church risk management director Paul Rytting declared under penalty of perjury, “the first lawsuit against the Church relating...
Did you know there is a current lawsuit accusing the First Presidency of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints of aiding a sex...
FLOODLIT has learned of three more settlements the Mormon church paid after alleged sexual abuse of children. 1. $1.5 Million in 2019 in Riverside County,...
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Part of a series of Floodlit special reports on lawsuits alleging sexual abuse coverups by Mormon officials. The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints...
Mormon Sexual Abusers: Examples
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David Cannata (1965 – ) was a Mormon bishop in Tucson, Arizona in 2005 when he sexually abused a child who was 5 or 6 years old; was a stake high council member sometime in the 2010s; was confronted by the victim and turned himself into the police; convicted in 2019 and sentenced to seven and a half years in prison; was excommunicated from the Mormon church because of the abuse
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Douglas Bowen (1950 – ) was an LDS church member and Boy Scout leader in Washington, California, Utah and Idaho; was convicted of attempted aggravated sexual abuse of a child; in a 2017 lawsuit filed against the Mormon church, two plaintiffs alleged that Bowen abused them in Scouting in approximately 1974 or 1975
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Keith Vallejo (1974 – ) was a Mormon bishop in Utah; accused of sexually abusing and raping two underage girls; in 2017, was found guilty in a jury trial of ten counts of second-degree felony forcible sexual abuse and one count of first-degree felony object rape; sentenced to five years to life in prison
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Vance Hein (1951 – ) was an LDS church member and scoutmaster in West Bradford, Pennsylvania; was convicted in 1999 of a misdemeanor for sexually abusing one of his boy scouts; sentenced in 2000 to 15 years of probation; arrested in 2011 for possessing child pornography; sentenced in 2012 to 15 to 30 years in prison; the Mormon church settled a related lawsuit in 2014
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George Tilson (1942 – 2020) was a Mormon church member in the Salt Lake City, Utah area (including Holladay); pleaded guilty to child sexual abuse in the 1990s; alleged coverup by Mormon leaders
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Arlo Atkin (1956 – ) was a former LDS bishop in or near Chandler, Maricopa County, Arizona; accused of raping and impregnating a 14-year-old girl in his ward while he was her bishop; pleaded guilty, spent 132 days in jail
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Dennis Schult (1935 – ) was a Mormon church member and scout leader in southern California; pleaded no contest to two counts of child molestation as part of a plea agreement wherein six other molestation charges were dropped; sentenced in 1991 to eight years in prison for sexually abusing two of his scouts for several years; as of 2024, registered sex offender living in Granada Hills, California
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James Hayes (1956 – ) was an LDS bishop in the Timmins - North Bay area, Ontario, Canada; convicted of sexual exploitation in November 2001; molested an underage girl in his ward while serving as her bishop
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Larry Deutsch (1966 – ) was a Mormon bishop in Missouri; arrested in 2020 and charged with possession of child pornography (child sexual abuse material, or CSAM) and accused of luring an underage teenager from Arizona to Missouri; pleaded guilty; sentenced in 2021 to 12 years in federal prison plus a lifetime of supervised release; in 2024, the victim filed a civil lawsuit against the LDS church
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Ronald Jenkins (1942 – ) was a Mormon scout leader, bishopric counselor and stake high council member in Idaho; worked as a high school teacher; accused of sexual abuse; convicted in 1996 of 10 counts of lewd conduct with a minor; sentenced to 17 years in prison; registered sex offender
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During crime: Cub/Boy Scout leader, 
Alleged:
5 victims, Multiple victims, 
Crime: 1990s, 2010s, 
Crime state:
Pennsylvania, 
Crime country:
Canada, 
Alleged crime scenes:
Perpetrator's home, Recreational trip/outing, Scout activity, 
Church paid $unknown
Alleged church actions: Excommunicated, 
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