Mormon church ex-employee reportedly attending Sunday meetings despite past child sexual abuse
Leo Lopshire (1945 – ) was a Mormon church member in Utah, Iowa and South Carolina; arrested June 30, 2026 and charged with multiple felonies...
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints has not published a list of its sex offenders. So far, FLOODLIT has documented:
- 4,236 reports of sex abuse/crimes
- 402 times LDS officials allegedly hid misdeeds
- 138 accused former bishops
- $52.2 million paid after alleged failures
- 271 ongoing criminal / civil cases
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Mormon apostle’s brother convicted of crimes related to child sexual abuse
Wade Christofferson, brother of Latter-day Saints apostle D. Todd Christofferson, has been convicted of federal crimes related to child sexual abuse. News reports are not...
Former Mormon primary presidency member convicted in 2012 of child sexual abuse
FLOODLIT has added another former Latter-day Saint ward primary worker to its database. Lisa Davis (1965 – ) was a Mormon church member in Othello,...
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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...
Mormon Sex Abuse/Crime Example Cases
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- Maynard McFarland (1959 – ) was an LDS church member in California and Minnesota; sentenced in 2005 to 32 years in prison for sexually abusing his daughter for many years; released from prison in 2020; as of 2024, lives in Chula Vista, California as a registered sex offender .
- "I allowed Satan to be my lord."According to a 2022 lawsuit, a bishop knew McFarland was abusing his daughter, but didn't report the abuse to police, and continued to let McFarland participate actively in church ceremonies and meetings, including baptizing his daughter
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- Craig Mathias (1960 – ) was a Mormon scout leader in Santa Clarita, California; was in the Northridge 1st Ward until 1983; convicted in 1987 of sexually molesting five boy scouts at his home; the alleged abuse involved up to 11 scouts; reportedly urged one victim on a recorded phone call not to tell police about the abuse; sentenced to six years in prison; released in 1990; registered sex offender (2025) .
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- Dennis Empey (1957 – ) was a Mormon church member in Driggs, Idaho and scout leader in Provo, Utah; accused of sexually abusing many children between 1981 and 1990; a stake president and four Mormon bishops allegedly failed to report abuse for years; convicted in 1991 in Utah of child molestation; sentenced to one year in jail and three years probation; charged in 2025 in Idaho with sex crimes .
- "This man has molested so many children that it involved four Bishops from the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints."Empey's alleged sex crimes span at least 44 years (1981 - 2025)
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Mormon sexual abuse statistics
So far, Floodlit has found:
- 4,236 reports of sex abuse/crime by Latter-day Saints
- 402 times church officials allegedly hid abuse
- 199 lawsuits against the LDS church
- 138 accused former Mormon bishops
- 90 reports of abuse in LDS churches/temples
- $52.2 million paid after alleged failures
- 271 ongoing criminal cases and civil suits
- 33,475 documents
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