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...
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:
- 4,186 reports of sex abuse
- 395 times church officials allegedly hid abuse
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Mormon Sexual Abuse News
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...
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...
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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- Michael Antrobus (1947 – 2023) was a former Mormon branch president (similar to a bishop) and bishop in Connersville, Indiana for 10 years (approximately 1974-84); convicted of child sexual abuse charges (9 counts, 6 victims) in Sacramento County, California in 2021-2022; sentenced to 8 years in San Quentin State Prison; died by suicide in prison in September 2023; allegedly had at least a dozen victims .
Convicted:
2021, 2022, 
During crime: Bishop, Branch president, - Alleged:
10 or more victims, Multiple victims,
- Alleged crime scenes:
Unknown crime scene,
- Alleged church actions: Excommunicated, Stake official accused of failure to report, Ward official accused of failure to report,
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- David Bennett (1954 – ) was an LDS church member and scout leader in California and Korea; convicted in 1987 in California of child sexual abuse; moved to Korea; was assigned to be an LDS young men's president and scoutmaster; was accused of molesting several boys; disappeared in 1991; FLOODLIT is attempting to locate him .
- During crime: Scout leader,
- Alleged:
8 victims, Multiple victims,
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- Clayton Hildreth (1952 – ) was a Mormon stake president in Butte, Montana; from Dillon, Montana; arrested in June 2004 by Boise, Idaho police for soliciting sex from a person he thought was a 14-year-old girl online; was stake president at the time of his arrest; pleaded guilty in October to a charge of interstate travel with intent to have sex with a minor; sentenced in 2005 to three years and five months in prison .
- Convicted:
2005,
- During crime: Stake president,
- Alleged:
1 victim,
- Alleged church actions: Excommunicated,
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- Larry Judd (1936 – ) was an LDS church member in Mesa, Arizona; accused of sexual abuse; admitted to molesting 12 girls over a period of about 20 years; some of the alleged abuse took place at church and at church-sponsored summer camps .
- Alleged:
10 or more victims, Multiple victims,
- Alleged crime scenes:
LDS activity, LDS building, Perpetrator's home,
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- Brian Peterson (1964 – ) was an LDS church member and scout leader in Orem, Utah; accused in 1988 of child sexual abuse; convicted and sentenced to prison in 1990 .
- Convicted:
1989,
- During crime: Scout leader,
- Alleged:
Multiple victims, Unknown number of victims,
- Alleged church actions: Unknown church action,
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"I've had little boys all over the state of Utah in conjunction with the Boy Scout program. Give me an 11-year-old boy for a week, and I'll make him a homosexual for life."-
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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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- Eneudo Petit (1972 – ) was a Mormon bishop in Provo, Utah; while bishop, allegedly sexually abused a child; accused of molesting another child before becoming a bishop; allegedly avoided arrest warrant for child sexual abuse by fleeing the US to Venezuela; arrested in Texas in 2021; convicted in Utah in 2022 and sentenced to prison; as of July 2024, is in the Uintah County Jail .
- Convicted:
2022,
- During crime: Bishop,
- Alleged:
2 victims, Multiple victims,
- Alleged crime scenes:
Perpetrator's home,
- View report »
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- John Goodrich (1959 – ) was a former Mormon bishop and dentist in Idaho; accused of child sexual abuse and of having nonconsensual sex with a woman he admitting to drugging; given a withheld judgment; in 2023, the AP reported that the church paid $300,000 to a victim and her mother under conditions of secrecy; in 2024, a criminal case opened in Virginia; in December 2025, another alleged victim sued the church .
- Convicted:
2017,
- During crime: Bishop,
- Alleged:
Multiple victims,
- Alleged crime scenes:
Perpetrator's home, Victim's home,
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Church paid $300,000
- Alleged church actions: Excommunicated,
- View report »
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- Arlo Atkin (1956 – ) was a former LDS bishop in or near Chandler, Maricopa County, Arizona; accused of raping and impregnating a 14-year-old girl in his ward while he was her bishop; pleaded guilty, spent 132 days in jail .
- During crime: Bishop,
- Alleged:
1 victim,
- Alleged crime scenes:
Perpetrator's home,
- Alleged church actions: Excommunicated,
- View report »
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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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Convicted:
During crime: 
Alleged:
Alleged crime scenes:
Alleged church actions: 
Crime state:
Church paid 
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Mormon sexual abuse statistics
So far, Floodlit has found:
- 4,186 reports of sex abuse by Latter-day Saints
- 395 times church officials allegedly hid abuse
- 199 lawsuits against the LDS church
- 135 accused former Mormon bishops
- 89 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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