LDS child sexual abuse case: Utah man, convicted 2007
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- 132 accused former bishops
- $52.2 million paid after alleged failures
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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)
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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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- Douglas Hall (1952 – ) was an LDS bishop and retired Utah Highway Patrol sergeant in Monticello, Utah; pleaded guilty in 2001 to two third degree felony counts of attempted forcible sexual abuse; pleaded guilty in 2002 to one second degree felony count of sex abuse of a child .
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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 .
Crime: 1980s, 1990s, 
Crime city:
UT - Provo, - Crime state:
Idaho, Utah,
- Convicted:
1991,
During crime: Scout leader, - Alleged:
10 or more victims, Multiple victims, Unknown number of victims,
- Alleged crime scenes:
LDS activity, LDS building, Perpetrator's home, Scout activity, Victim's home,
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"This man has molested so many children that it involved four Bishops from the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints."-
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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 .
- Alleged:
10 or more victims, Multiple victims,
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- John Parkinson (1931 – ) was a Mormon stake president (1981-1991) and physician in Fairfield, California; sentenced to prison in 1997 for sexually abusing two female patients, but the judge delayed the sentence pending an appeal; his conviction was later reversed .
- Crime: 1980s, 1990s,
- Crime state:
California,
- During crime: Stake presidency counselor, Stake president,
- Alleged:
10 or more victims, Multiple victims,
- Alleged crime scenes:
Perpetrator's workplace,
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- Robert Tubbs (1951 – ) was an LDS scout leader in Slaterville, Weber County, Utah; admitted he told a Mormon bishop in the early 1970s he had molested multiple boys; Tubbs said the bishop kept the abuse secret; nearly 20 years passed and Tubbs molested others; in the 1990s, Tubbs pleaded guilty to child sexual abuse charges; sentenced to six years to life in prison; paroled in 2000; violated parole; released in 2008 .
- During crime: Scout leader,
- Alleged:
10 or more victims, Multiple victims,
- Alleged crime scenes:
Scout activity,
- Alleged church actions: Ward official accused of failure to report,
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- Keith Price (1956 – ) was a Mormon bishop in Pleasant Grove, Utah; convicted in 2018 of class A misdemeanor voyeurism; secretly recorded underage girls; the crime occurred while he was serving as bishop .
- Convicted:
2018,
- During crime: Bishop,
- Alleged:
Multiple victims, Unknown number of victims,
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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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- Stephen Field was a Mormon church member in California; convicted of sexual abuse; sentenced to prison .
- Crime: 1970s, 1980s,
- Crime state:
California,
- During crime: Scout leader,
- Alleged:
3 victims, Multiple victims,
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- Paul Burdick (1972 – ) was an LDS bishop and drivers education teacher in Oregon; arrested in 2019 and charged with child sexual abuse; pleaded guilty to third-degree sex abuse involving underage female students in his job as a drivers ed teacher .
- Convicted:
2020,
- During crime: Bishop,
- Alleged:
10 or more victims, Multiple victims,
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- James Hogan (1937 – ) was a Mormon scout leader in California and Oregon; in 1989, was sentenced to five years in prison for child sexual abuse; in 1989, two teenagers sued the church and Hogan (settled 1990); in 2002, two men sued the church and the BSA (church settled for $800,000 and $75,000); in 2011, a man sued the BSA for $5.2 million (he previously settled with the church); in all, 12 alleged victims 1967-1989 .
- Crime: 1960s, 1970s, 1980s,
- Crime state:
California, Oregon,
- Convicted:
1989,
- Alleged:
10 or more victims, Multiple victims, Unknown number of victims,
- Alleged crime scenes:
LDS building,
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Church paid $875,000
- 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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- Marvin Harker (1968 – ) was an LDS bishop in Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada in 2016; reportedly confessed to his mission president in 1987 to sexually abusing multiple children; also reportedly confessed to his bishop; both leaders told him not to report to police, according to records in a 2016 criminal case; convicted in 2019 (alleged abuse 1986-93); sentenced in 2020 to five years in prison; registered sex offender .
- Convicted:
2019,
- During crime: Unknown position,
- Alleged:
5 victims, Multiple victims,
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- Ronald Phelps was an LDS bishop and stake executive secretary, and attorney, in Oklahoma; arrested for indecent exposure before becoming an LDS bishop; accused of child sexual abuse; Mormon church leaders allegedly covered up the abuse .
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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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- 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 .
- Crime: 2010s, 2020s,
- Crime county:
AZ - Maricopa,
- Crime state:
Arizona, Missouri,
- Convicted:
2021,
- During crime: Bishop,
- Alleged:
1 victim,
- Alleged crime scenes:
LDS building, Online,
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- Jeffrey Head (1964 – ) was an LDS bishop in Draper, Utah; committed sex crimes while serving as a Mormon bishop; in 2019, a jury found him guilty of attempted forcible sexual abuse, two counts of lewdness and sexual battery; sentenced to four months in jail and four years of probation .
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- Todd Edwards (1964 – ) was a Mormon bishop in Menifee, Riverside County, California; in 2013, sentenced to three years in prison for sexual abuse of one teenage girl in 2006 and another in 2012; was bishop at the time of the 2012 abuse; in 2024, two victims sued the LDS church in separate lawsuits; one said a stake president and LDS law firm Kirton McConkie hindered police .
- Crime: 2000s, 2010s,
- Crime state:
California,
- Convicted:
2013,
- During crime: Bishop, Youth leader,
- Alleged:
3 victims, Multiple victims,
- Alleged crime scenes:
Perpetrator's home, Vehicle,
- Alleged church actions: Church officials accused of failure to warn ward members, Counseling/therapy for victim, Ward official accused of failure to report,
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- Richard Sampson (1945 – ) was a Mormon bishop, stake high council member and doctor in Provo, Utah; was director of medical affairs for the LDS Missionary Training Center; allegedly sexually abused at least seven children; convicted and sentenced in 2014 to one to 15 years in prison for child sexual abuse; as of 2024, was out on parole living in Holladay, Utah .
- Crime: 2000s, 2010s,
- Crime city:
UT - Provo,
- Crime county:
AZ - Maricopa, UT - Utah,
- Crime state:
Arizona, Utah,
- Convicted:
2014,
- During crime: Bishop, Church employee,
- Alleged:
7 victims, Multiple victims,
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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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- 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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