7 cases found.
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Robert Linscott
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- LDS mission:
unknown
- was a Mormon church member; accused of sexual abuse.
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Rowland Wayne James
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- Latest update: January 2024: serving prison time
- Victims: 2 victims, Multiple victims,
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Born: 1968
LDS positions: Unknown, - LDS mission:
unknown
- Criminal case: Convicted,
- was an LDS church member in Lansing, Michigan; found guilty of sexually abusing young girls and a young boy he met at church; serving time in prison as of January 2024.
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Melvin Eugene Barhite
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- Victims: Multiple victims, Unknown number of victims,
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Born: 1944
- LDS positions: Unknown,
- LDS mission:
unknown
- Criminal case: Convicted, Prison,
- was a Mormon church member in Michigan; convicted of sex crimes; sentenced in 2001 to prison; while in prison, argued that prison officials violated his religious rights by confiscating photos of scantily clad females between the ages of 14-26.
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Mark Chapman
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- Victims: 2 victims, Multiple victims,
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Born: 1971
- LDS positions: Church janitor, Scout leader,
- LDS mission:
unknown
- Criminal case: Convicted, Plea agreement, Prison, Registered sex offender,
- Civil case: No civil case,
- was an LDS church member and scout leader in Michigan; served 9 years in prison in New York for charges of engaging in criminal sexual conduct with a person below the age of 17; sentenced to prison in 2022 in Michigan for sexually assaulting two children; some of the abuse took place at an LDS chapel.
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Patrick Robert Oliphant
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- AKA Robbie Oliphant
- Victims: 1 victim,
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Born: 1992
- LDS positions: Missionary,
- LDS mission:
United States - Michigan [unknown city] 2013-2013
- Criminal case: Convicted,
- was a Mormon missionary from Carlsbad, New Mexico who was serving a mission in Michigan in 2013; reportedly turned himself in for sexual abuse of a child he was babysitting; charged with six counts of criminal sexual penetration of a minor and three counts of criminal sexual contact with a minor; convicted in 2015 of nine felony charges and sentenced.
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Maurice Wade Harker
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- AKA Dr. Harker
- Latest update: 2023: charged with aggravated abuse of a vulnerable adult and kidnapping, both second-degree felonies
- Victims: 1 victim,
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Born: 1969
- LDS positions: Missionary,
- LDS mission:
United States - Michigan Dearborn 1988-1990
Leaders allegedly hid sex crimes- Criminal case: Ongoing,
- Civil case: No civil case,
- was an LDS church member and therapist in Utah; accused of psychologically and physically harming sexual abuse victims who came to him as patients; charged in September 2023 with felony aggravated abuse of a vulnerable adult and kidnapping.
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Bruce A McAskill
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- Latest update: 1994: convicted of child sexual abuse, sentenced to prison
- Victims: 1 victim,
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Born: 1928
- LDS positions: Other leader, Ward clerk,
- LDS mission:
no
- Criminal case: Convicted, Found guilty, Prison,
- Civil case: No civil case,
- was a Mormon church ward clerk in Jackson, Michigan; before becoming ward clerk, was convicted of rape; after becoming ward clerk, in 1994, was found guilty by a judge of kissing and fondling an 8-year-old boy whom he was babysitting; McAskill had met the boy's mother at church; a police officer said McAskill told him 'he didn't see any problem' with an adult sleeping naked with a child.
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