5 cases found.
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Ryan Christopher Hall
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- Latest update: 2024: arrested and charged with several sex crimes related to child sexual abuse
- Victims: Multiple victims, Unknown number of victims,
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Born: 1970
LDS positions: Bishopric, Bishopric counselor, Other leader, Sunday school teacher, Youth leader, - LDS mission:
unknown
- Criminal case: Ongoing,
- Civil case: No civil case,
- was a former Mormon bishopric member and veteran sheriff's department detective in Maryland; in 2024, arrested and charged with several sex crimes related to child sexual abuse.
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Frederick Merlin Edvalson
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- AKA Frederick Merlin Edvalson, Frederick Melvin Edvalson, Frederick Edvalson, Fredrick Edvalson, Fred Edvalson
- Latest update: 2009: died in Utah
- Victims: 1 victim,
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Born: 1920
Died: 2009
- LDS positions: Ministering/home teacher, Other leader, Scout leader,
- LDS mission:
no
Leaders allegedly hid sex crimes- Criminal case: Convicted,
- Civil case: lawsuit against LDS church, Ongoing civil case,
- was a Mormon in Utah and Camp Springs, Prince George's County, Maryland; convicted 3 times of sexual abuse in Maryland in the 1980s; third conviction: while on probation, groomed a 10-year-old girl and sexually assaulted her in a room inside a Mormon chapel on multiple occasions from 1983 to 1984; reportedly told her he was giving her "special religious training;" sentenced to 8 years in prison.
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James Phillip Schmidt
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- Victims: Multiple victims, Unknown number of victims,
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Born: 1944
- LDS positions: Scout leader,
- LDS mission:
no
- Leaders allegedly hid sex crimes
- Criminal case: Convicted,
- Civil case: Unknown result,
- was an LDS church member and scout leader, with multiple charges of child sexual abuse over six years; convicted in the late 1990s in Maryland; as of 2024, registered as a sex offender.
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Luke Elbert Dalton
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- AKA Lee Dalton; Luke Elbert Dalton Jr.
- Victims: 10 or more victims, Multiple victims,
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Born: 1941
- LDS positions: Scout leader,
- LDS mission:
no
- Criminal case: Convicted, Prison,
- Civil case: No civil case,
- was a Mormon church member; admitted to sexually abusing dozens of boys over decades in Ohio, Montana and Utah; arrested in 1997 in Utah for sexually abusing his only son; convicted and sentenced to prison; served 3.5 years in prison.
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James Grant Stringham
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- AKA Grant Stringham; Dr. Stringham; J. Grant Stringham, Jr.
- Latest update: 2017: died
- Victims: Multiple victims,
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Born: 1928
Died: 2017
- LDS positions: Bishopric counselor, Missionary,
- LDS mission:
no
- Criminal case: Convicted,
- Civil case: No civil case,
- was an LDS church member and physician in Salt Lake City; in 1982, was found guilty of sexual exploitation of a minor; was sentenced to five years probation and ordered to pay $7,500 restitution.
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