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...
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- 394 times church officials allegedly hid abuse
- 132 accused former bishops
- $52.2 million paid after alleged failures
- 261 ongoing criminal / civil cases
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Mormon Sexual Abuse News
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...
Mormon sexual abuse case added: 2006 BYU student
Floodlit has added another Latter-day Saints sex abuse case to our growing database. Details: Daniel Duke case report Daniel Duke (1987 – ) was a...
Former Mormon missionary to Hawaii sent to prison for Utah child sex crimes
Details: Cade Hilton Boyle Boyle told investigators he was sent home early from his LDS mission to Hawaii for starting an inappropriate conversation with a...
Wade Christofferson excommunication confirmed by former stake high council member
Today, Mormon Stories Podcast published a recorded interview with Edward Nachel, a former Mormon stake high council member in Illinois. Nachel confirmed what Floodlit reported...
Former Mormon bishopric counselor approved for rebaptism despite child sexual abuse conviction
Case details: Robert David Adams
Former Latter-day Saint bishop sentenced to jail for assault; registered sex offender
Alan Roman Andrus was sentenced Feb. 20, 2026 to 32 days in jail and probation after a California jury found him guilty of simple assault....
Former Mormon branch president jailed in Utah for child sex abuse; Mormon church accused of failure to report abuse for years
UPDATE February 2026: Jeffrey Rock was sentenced to 18 months in Utah County jail for sexual battery February 2026. Family members of Jeffrey Butler Rock...
Former Salt Lake City fire battalion chief arrested, accused of possessing hundreds of child sexual abuse images (CSAM)
To read more, please visit: https://floodlit.org/a/b679/ Help us raise awareness: https://floodlit.org/get-involved/
Lawsuit: Arkansas Mormon officials failed to protect victim after 11 years of child sexual abuse
A new lawsuit has been filed against The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints in Arkansas. According to the lawsuit, in 1993 G.S. was...
Boy Scout official who suspended SA perpetrators, was later convicted of possessing and distributing CSAM
Floodlit recently added two men to our database. Dick Jensen was a Mormon dentist in McMinnville, Oregon. Douglas S. Smith Jr. was a Boy Scout...
A survivor is looking for academic study participants: women who experienced patriarchal violence in the LDS church
An academic researcher (a survivor herself) is seeking LDS participants to interview who have experienced patriarchal violence in the LDS Church (interpersonal/institutional or both). –...
A temple’s tale: Years after child sex abuse lawsuit, Mormon stake president accused of coverup became temple president, abuser attended
BREAKING NEWS FROM FLOODLIT.org: A Floodlit investigation has revealed that after a stake president in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS/Mormon church)...
Updated Mormon sex abuse case report: James Ricky Neumeyer, Utah
Details: James Ricky Neumeyer Floodlit obtained copies of police records created by the Centerville Police Department in 2024. A police detective reported that in June...
New federal lawsuit accuses former Mormon bishop John Goodrich of sexual abuse of another child
Floodlit.org has learned of a newly filed federal lawsuit against The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints over allegations of child sexual abuse by...
Candon Dahle, a Mormon and former BYU baseball pitcher, 180-day jail sentence to END EARLY; after 5 years of alleged child sex abuse, he WON’T have to register as a sex offender, thanks to a plea deal
Floodlit.org has learned that Candon Dahle is about to be released from jail. Details: https://floodlit.org/a/b168/ Candon Dahle full case report Dahle, 22, was a starting...
Victim: LDS Primary general president (2005-10) covered up son’s alleged CSA in 1980s; he was convicted in 2018, 2023 of crimes related to CSA of two children
Floodlit has updated our case report on Robert Tanner Lant of Utah, adding a timeline and details of allegations that Lant’s parents, both prominent members...
Former Mormon bishop accused of sexual assault awaits sentencing for misdemeanor battery
Details: https://floodlit.org/a/a534/ Over 130 former bishops accused of sex crimes: https://floodlit.org/lpe/ever-bishop/
Listed: Jeff Rock, former LDS bishopric counselor
Case report: https://floodlit.org/a/e995/ Jeffrey Rock (1955 – ) pleaded guilty in December 2025 in Utah to three charges of sexual battery; set to be sentenced...
Listed: Todd Nef, in Washington prison for child sexual abuse
Todd Nef case report Michael Nef case report (Todd’s father)
Michael Nef (LDS) went to prison in Idaho for one of the “most shocking” cases in county history. Died Dec 13. Obit says he “leaves a great legacy of faith and repentance”
Michael Nef case report Todd Nef case report (Michael’s son)
Former Zions Bank VP Spencer Pratt sentencing Dec. 31 for charges related to 10 years of alleged child sex abuse of two children
To read more, please visit: https://floodlit.org/a/b159 Spencer Pratt will be sentenced tomorrow for forcible sex abuse and aggravated sex abuse of a child in Utah....
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...
Wave of around 100 Mormon sex abuse lawsuits continues in California
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...
Timeline: LDS church sued insurers to collect $90 million, after settling 5-year-long child sex abuse suit
FLOODLIT.org, an independent newsroom investigating sexual abuse in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, broke the story last week that the church spent...
$59 million, five years: what Mormon officials spent to stop a sex abuse lawsuit
FLOODLIT.org, an independent newsroom investigating sexual abuse in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, has learned that the church spent nearly $60 million...
Mormon Sexual Abusers: Examples
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- Eric Avant (1959 – ) was a Mormon cub scout leader in Norfolk, Virginia; convicted in 1979 of sodomizing an 11-year-old; Mormon leaders allegedly knew of his sexual attraction to young boys but did not check police records; convicted in 1988 of 14 counts of aggravated sexual battery and sentenced to 26 years in prison for molesting nine boys; had as many as 41 alleged victims; the church settled a lawsuit in 1992 .
During crime: Scout leader, - Alleged:
10 or more victims, Multiple victims,
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Church paid $2,000,000
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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 .
- During crime: Scout leader,
- Alleged:
5 victims, Multiple victims,
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- Alfred Cote (1958 – ) was a Mormon church member and Boy scout leader in New Hampshire and Nauvoo, Illinois; convicted in the 1980s and in 2020 of child sexual abuse .
Crime: 1980s, 2000s, 2010s, 
Crime state:
Illinois, New Hampshire,
- Alleged:
4 victims, Multiple victims,
- Alleged crime scenes:
Scout activity,
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- Alfred Forrester (1936 – 2013) was a Mormon church member in California; excommunicated in the 1950s after conviction for child molestation; moved to Iowa, reoffended, incarcerated; returned to California, convicted once or twice more, then assigned to be a Mormon church scoutmaster; abused again, caught, sentenced to prison in 1979; a 2024 lawsuit against the LDS church alleged that a bishop failed to protect kids .
- Crime: 1950s, 1960s, 1970s,
- Crime state:
California, Iowa,
- Convicted:
1956, 1960, 1966, 1979,
- During crime: Scout leader,
- Alleged:
10 or more victims, Multiple victims,
- Alleged crime scenes:
LDS activity, LDS building, Scout activity,
- Alleged church actions: Church officials accused of failure to warn ward members, Church position after conviction, Excommunicated,
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- Timur Dykes was a Mormon church member and scout leader in Portland, Oregon; accused of sexual abuse; reportedly admitted to molesting 17 boys; convicted multiple times; in 1987, three plaintiffs sued the Mormon church and the Boy Scouts of America; in about 2009, the Mormon church paid $350,000 to a victim to settle its portion of a civil lawsuit .
- During crime: Scout leader,
- Alleged:
10 or more victims, Multiple victims,
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Church paid $350,000
- Alleged church actions: Church officials accused of failure to protect victims after learning of possible abuse, Church officials accused of failure to warn ward members, Excommunicated,
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- Prescott De Jean (1955 – ) was a Mormon church member and scout leader in Texas; accused of sexual abuse; convicted between 1991 and 1997 of indecency with a child by contact; victim was 6 years old at the time of the abuse; convicted in 2013 of third degree felony failure to comply with sex offender registration requirements; as of March 2024, lives in Port Lavaca, Texas as a registered sex offender .
- Convicted:
2013,
- Alleged:
1 victim,
- Alleged church actions: Excommunicated,
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- Wendell Thompson (1963 – ) was a former LDS bishop and stake presidency member in Clinton, Mississippi; convicted in 2011 of felony child sexual abuse (gratification of lust); some of the abuse took place while Thompson was in an LDS stake presidency role .
- Crime: 2010s,
- Crime state:
Mississippi,
- Convicted:
2011,
- During crime: Stake presidency counselor,
- Alleged:
Unknown number of victims,
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- Erik Hughes (1966 – ) was a Mormon bishop in Mapleton, Utah and a Mormon church senior product manager when he sexually abused two underage children in his LDS ward dozens of times; was sentenced to prison in 2017; released in 2023; as of 2024, registered sex offender living in Utah .
- Convicted:
2017,
- During crime: Bishop, Church employee,
- Alleged:
2 victims, Multiple victims,
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- Larren Arnold (1935 – 2017) was a Mormon church member and scout leader in Idaho; in 1984, arrested for lewd conduct with a minor under 16; convicted, received a five-year suspended sentence and three years probation; Mormon leaders allegedly knew as early as 1964 about Arnold's abuse; the Mormon church made a $50,000 settlement payment to a victim in 2001, and a payment to another victim in 2012; died in 2017 .
- During crime: Scout leader,
- Alleged:
1 victim,
- Alleged crime scenes:
Unknown crime scene,
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Church paid $50,000
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- Timothy McCleve (1956 – ) was a former Mormon bishop in Harrisville, Utah when he was charged with sexually abusing three children; some of the abuse took place while he was bishop; sentenced in 2008 to up to 30 years in prison for child sexual abuse; in 2024, charged in Utah with threatening a witness in a parole violation investigation .
- Convicted:
2008,
- During crime: Bishop,
- Alleged:
4 victims, Multiple victims,
- Alleged crime scenes:
Victim's home,
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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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- Richard James (1966 – ) was a Mormon church member in Potomac, Maryland; accused of sexually abusing a boy from 1995 to 1999 at billionaire Bill Marriott's home, an LDS church and other locations; pleaded guilty to reduced child abuse charges; sentenced to 10 years in prison (nine suspended); was a registered sex offender; the victim sued the church, Marriott and six others in 2024 .
- Crime: 1990s,
- Crime state:
Maine, Maryland, North Carolina,
- Convicted:
2002,
- During crime: Scout leader, Youth leader,
- Alleged:
1 victim,
- Alleged crime scenes:
LDS activity, LDS building, Public, Scout activity, Vehicle,
- Alleged church actions: Excommunicated, Rebaptized,
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- Gordon Bodily (1949 – ) was a Mormon bishop and physical education teacher in Hyrum, Cache Valley, Utah; accused in 2000 of luring a 17-year-old North Carolina girl to Utah for sex while serving as an LDS bishop; sentenced in 2001 to 21 months in federal prison .
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- James Carnegie was a Mormon bishop in Silverdale, Washington in the mid-1980s (Silverdale 3rd Ward, Silverdale Washington Stake); convicted in 2009 and sentenced to jail for child molestation .
- Convicted:
2009,
- During crime: Bishop,
- Alleged:
2 victims, Multiple victims,
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- Clark Crookston (1949 – ) was a former Mormon bishop, dentist and college professor in Orem, Utah; accused of nearly 60 years of sex abuse of multiple children; pleaded guilty to attempted aggravated child sexual abuse; sentenced in 2022 to up to 35 years in prison .
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"I assumed I was alone. I felt guilty even to question his worthiness. [...] I buried the hurt and kept it secret for over 30 years. [...] The children who came forward are my heroes. These are the brave souls [who] broke the curse that has been happening for nearly 60 years."-
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- Errol Pilling (1942 – ) was a Mormon bishop and licensed psychologist in Calgary, Alberta, Canada; went on an LDS mission to England in the early 1960s; pleaded guilty in 1988 and in 1994 to charges of sexual misconduct; in September 1994, his registration as a chartered psychologist with the Psychologists Association of Alberta was cancelled; in 1994, was excommunicated; as of February 2024, lives in Twin Falls, Idaho .
- During crime: Bishop,
- Alleged:
2 victims, Multiple victims,
- Alleged church actions: Excommunicated,
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- Mark Treter (1954 – ) was a Mormon church member and environmental lawyer in Greendale, Indiana; accused of sexual abuse; pleaded no contest to one felony count; sentenced in 2023 to probation; local LDS church leaders allegedly knew of Treter's criminal behavior but did not report to police .
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- James Denos (1929 – 2017) was a former LDS bishop and junior high school teacher in Utah; previously lived and served as a Mormon bishop in 1970 in Westminster, Orange County, California; sentenced in 2002 to a minimum of 20 years in a Utah state prison for sexually abusing four minor girls living in Utah; allegedly began molesting kids as early as 1950 .
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"In public, my father was always so perfect, and he told us he was perfect. [...] He went to church every Sunday, we had family home evening and we read the Scriptures. People put him on a pedestal. But he was molesting children … right under our noses."-
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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 .
- During crime: Bishopric counselor, Scout leader,
- Alleged:
5 victims, Multiple victims, Unknown number of victims,
- Alleged crime scenes:
LDS activity, Scout activity, Victim's home,
- Alleged church actions: Excommunicated,
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- William Hanson (1962 – ) was a Mormon youth leader who allegedly sexually abused children in several US states, including Arkansas, Indiana, Iowa, Utah, Texas, Wisconsin and New Jersey; sentenced to prison for child sexual abuse; in the 2000s, the Mormon church settled a civil lawsuit in which the victim accused it of failing to protect him .
- During crime: High priest, Scout leader, Youth leader,
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Church paid $unknown
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Mormon sexual abuse statistics
So far, Floodlit has found:
- 4,178 reports of sex abuse by Latter-day Saints
- 394 times church officials allegedly hid abuse
- 199 lawsuits against the LDS church
- 132 accused former Mormon bishops
- 88 reports of abuse in LDS churches/temples
- $52.2 million paid after alleged failures
- 261 ongoing criminal cases and civil suits
- 33,475 documents
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