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...
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (Mormon/LDS) has not published a list of its sex offenders. So far, FLOODLIT has documented:
- 4,183 reports of sex abuse
- 395 times church officials allegedly hid abuse
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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...
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...
Mormon Sexual Abusers: Examples
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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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- James Schmidt (1944 – ) was an LDS church member and scout leader, with multiple charges of child sexual abuse over six years; convicted in Idaho; convicted in the late 1990s in Maryland; as of 2024, registered as a sex offender .
During crime: Scout leader, - Alleged:
Multiple victims, Unknown number of victims,
- Alleged crime scenes:
LDS building,
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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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- 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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- 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,
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2 victims, Multiple victims,
- Alleged church actions: Excommunicated,
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Mormon sexual abuse statistics
So far, Floodlit has found:
- 4,183 reports of sex abuse by Latter-day Saints
- 395 times church officials allegedly hid abuse
- 199 lawsuits against the LDS church
- 133 accused former Mormon bishops
- 88 reports of abuse in LDS churches/temples
- $52.2 million paid after alleged failures
- 262 ongoing criminal cases and civil suits
- 33,475 documents
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