LDS sexual abuse case: non-compliant Utah registered sex offender
Andrew Bowers (1988 – ) was a Mormon church member in Salt Lake City, Utah; convicted of SEXUAL ABUSE OF A CHILD/2ND DEGREE FELONY in...
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- 4,193 reports of sex abuse
- 397 times church officials allegedly hid abuse
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LDS sexual abuse case: Utah child rapist, registered sex offender
Scott Bowers (1955 – ) was a Mormon church member in Salt Lake City, Utah; April 2006 was convicted of 2 counts of: SEXUAL ABUSE...
LDS sexual abuse case: Utah man convicted of lewdness, 2026
Daniel Mooy (1972 – ) was a Mormon church member in St. George, Utah; pleaded guilty to two counts of lewdness and intoxication in April...
Mormon sexual abuse case: ex-police officer in Utah, Arizona, convicted; LDS church excommunicated him in 2006, but church officials allegedly never told police
Gerald Salcido (1954 – ) was a Mormon church member and police officer in Mesa, Arizona and in Provo, Utah; accused of child sexual abuse...
Mormon sexual abuse case: Utah man “abused so many children that he can’t keep his victims straight”
Arvid Oakley (1943 – ) was a Mormon church member in Springville, Utah; accused of sexually abusing several girls who were between 4 and 6...
Mormon child sex abuse case: Utah serial killer, 1980s
Arthur Bishop (1952 – 1988) was a Mormon boy scout leader in Utah; was excommunicated in the 1970s; later molested multiple children and killed five...
Mormon sexual abuse: serial killer’s brother convicted of CSA
Douglas Bishop (1960 – ) was raised Mormon; arrested in 1983 and convicted in 1984 of three counts of sodomy on a child and one...
Mormon sexual abuse: Utah mental health counselor convicted of raping a teenage patient
Jason Calder (1976 – ) was a Mormon church member and mental health counselor in Utah; accused of raping a teenage patient; pleaded guilty; sentenced...
Mormon child sex abuse case: Nevada CSAM, convicted 2023
Kent Schank (1986 – ) was a Mormon church member in Henderson, Nevada; pleaded guilty to POSSESSION OF VISUAL PRESENTATION DEPICTING SEXUAL CONDUCT OF A...
BYU sexual abuse news: professor arrested, charged
Stephen McKean (1993 – ) was a Mormon church member in Springville, Utah and a BYU professor; arrested in April 2026 and charged with distributing...
Mormon sexual abuse case: disbarred Idaho attorney accused of rape, convicted of reduced charges in 2025
Richard Morriss (1973 – ) was a Mormon church member and divorce lawyer in Meridian, Idaho; accused of rape in 2022; pleaded guilty in 2025...
Mormon registered sex offender added: Magna, Utah (2016 conviction)
Joshua Twelves was a Mormon church member in Utah; convicted in 2016 of two second-degree felony counts of sexual exploitation of a minor; as of...
Mormon child sexual abuse news: former high school soccer coach in Logan, Utah charged
Jorge Cruz (1973 – ) was a former high school soccer coach in Logan, Utah; booked into the Cache County Jail in February 2026 after...
Latter-day Saints sexual abuse case: former California middle school teacher, sentenced to prison in 2012 for enticement of a minor
Eugene Wasson Ballantyne (1982 – ) was a Mormon church member and middle school teacher; pleaded guilty in July 2012 to one count of attempting...
LDS sex abuse case: Fallon, Nevada offender; church leaders allegedly failed to report to civil authorities
Daniel Bake (1978 – ) was a Mormon church member in Fernley, Nevada; in February 2021, was convicted of two counts of LEWDNESS W/CHILD, UNDER...
Mormon sexual abuse case added: 4+ alleged Maryland victims; one said she was pressured to support rebaptism
Corey Taylor (1960 – ) was a Mormon church member in Baltimore, Maryland; pleaded guilty to two felony counts related to sexual abuse of two...
LDS child sexual abuse case: Utah man, convicted 2007
Floodlit’s LDS sexual abuse database has added another case. David Lee Boatwright was a Mormon church member in Providence, Utah; pleaded guilty to two counts...
Mormon sexual abuse: ex-Wyoming youth leader, CSAM, guilty
Another child sexual abuse material (CSAM) case has been added to Floodlit’s growing Mormon sex abuse database. Gregory Weinand was a Cowley, Wyoming man; convicted...
Latter-day Saints child sexual abuse: Utah man, 2020, guilty
Floodlit has added another Latter-day Saint child sexual abuser to our database. According to the Declaration for Arrest, Gordon Krengel was caught sexually abusing a...
LDS sex abuse case: abuser lists Utah temples as addresses
Floodlit has added another LDS sex abuse case to our database. Adam Kelly of St. George, Utah was convicted in 2009 of second-degree felony child...
LDS Sex Abuse: Special Reports
BREAKING: Mormon church accused of omitting 19 pages of evidence in “deeply disingenuous” attempt to stop sexual abuse lawsuit after rejected $250M immunity bid
Floodlit, an independent newsroom reporting on sexual abuse in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, has obtained documents revealing a legal battle in...
Rinse & Repeat: Mormon church trying to force BSA victim to dismiss sex abuse lawsuit
Floodlit case report: Richard Kent James Complaint: John Doe v. LDS Church, Bill Marriott, Mormon officials John Doe Objection to LDS Church Motion, BSA Bankruptcy,...
For 26 years (1963-89), LDS-BSA top execs knew of “perversion files,” but allegedly did not tell LDS church
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...
Uncovering the Mormon Church’s Knowledge of Child Sexual Abuse: The 1984 Lawsuit
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...
Findings re: Mormon official’s declaration on church knowledge of sexual abuse
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...
Where are the letters? Alleged sex abuse coverup by Mormon First Presidency
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 discovers three more Mormon sex abuse settlements, totaling over $2 million
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,...
BREAKING: Mormon church files appeal after losing civil suit against sex abuse insurers
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...
BREAKING: Mormon Church Nears Massive Settlement of Over 100 Sexual Abuse Claims
Part of a series of Floodlit special reports on lawsuits alleging sexual abuse coverups by Mormon officials. FLOODLIT.org, an independent newsroom investigating sexual abuse in...
Mormon church loses civil suit against insurers over sexual abuse settlements
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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- Joseph Neipp was a former LDS bishop in San Jose, California; in 2021, pleaded no contest to four molestation counts and was given an 18-year prison sentence, with credit for the three years he spent in county jail prior to his sentencing; father of convicted Mormon child sexual abuser Samuel Neipp .
Convicted:
2021, 
Alleged:
2 victims, Multiple victims, - Alleged crime scenes:
LDS activity, LDS building,
- Alleged church actions: Excommunicated, Rebaptized,
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- Douglas Stoddard (1949 – ) was an LDS bishop in Hurst, Texas; convicted in 1992 of a felony child sexual abuse charge of indecency with a child by contact; sentenced to 8 years of probation; a lifetime registered sex offender in Texas; named publicly in August 2023 by a victim who said Stoddard molested him and three other boys in his Mormon ward while serving as bishop .
- During crime: Bishop,
- Alleged:
4 victims, Multiple victims,
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- Dylan Whiting (1988 – ) was an LDS bishop in Nampa, Idaho; was removed from his position in 2021 after child sexual abuse allegations surfaced; was charged with four sex crimes; pleaded guilty to one felony count; sentenced in 2022; FLOODLIT is seeking info on the sentence .
- Convicted:
2022,
- Alleged:
Multiple victims, Unknown number of victims,
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- Matthew Doyle (1973 – ) was an LDS bishop in Copperas Cove, Texas (2nd Ward) in the 2000s; was a high school basketball coach; convicted in 2011 of sexual assault .
- During crime: Bishop,
- Alleged:
1 victim,
- Alleged crime scenes:
Perpetrator's home,
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- Geoffrey Ashdown (1947 – ) was a Mormon bishop and deputy school principal in Australia; convicted after alleged sexual abuse of two boys; the alleged abuse took place while Ashdown was a bishop; died in 2012 .
- Convicted:
1994,
- During crime: Bishop,
- Alleged:
2 victims, Multiple victims,
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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 .
- Crime: 1980s, 1990s,
Crime state:
California,
- Convicted:
1991,
- During crime: Scout leader,
- Alleged:
2 victims, Multiple victims,
- Alleged crime scenes:
Perpetrator's home,
- Alleged church actions: Excommunicated,
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- David McConkie (1978 – ) was a Mormon bishop (approximately 2013-16), stake president (2016-21) and deputy district attorney in Colorado; paternal grandson of Mormon apostle Bruce R. McConkie; arrested in 2023 and charged with felony sexual assault on a child by someone in a position of trust; allegedly confessed child sexual assault to a Mormon church leader in 2008; in July 2025, sentenced to five years probation .
- During crime: Unknown position,
- Alleged:
3 victims, Multiple victims,
- Alleged crime scenes:
Perpetrator's home, Victim's home,
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- Frederick Edvalson (1920 – 2009) was a Mormon in Utah and Camp Springs, Prince George's County, Maryland; convicted 3 times of sexual abuse in Maryland in the 1980s; third conviction: while on probation, groomed a 10-year-old girl and sexually assaulted her in a room inside a Mormon chapel on multiple occasions from 1983 to 1984; reportedly told her he was giving her "special religious training;" sentenced to 8 years in prison .
- During crime: Other leader,
- Alleged:
1 victim,
- Alleged crime scenes:
LDS building,
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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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Mormon sexual abuse statistics
So far, Floodlit has found:
- 4,193 reports of sex abuse by Latter-day Saints
- 397 times church officials allegedly hid abuse
- 199 lawsuits against the LDS church
- 136 accused former Mormon bishops
- 90 reports of abuse in LDS churches/temples
- $52.2 million paid after alleged failures
- 262 ongoing criminal cases and civil suits
- 33,475 documents
Mormon sexual abuse map
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Special report: Mormon sexual abuse lawsuits
In 2025, Floodlit learned that the Mormon church spent nearly $60 million to defend and settle a 2013 West Virginia lawsuit by child sexual abuse victims.
In an ongoing series, we examine lawsuits alleging that Mormon officials failed to report sexual abuse or protect victims.
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