Predatory or a good defense? Ex-BYU baseball pitcher Candon Dahle was convicted in an Idaho child sexual abuse case. Then, he got letters of support from the three places the victim had found worth living for, after years of SA. School, dance and her child advocacy center. Does this re-victimize the victim? “It was never…
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Full case report: Dan Workman Mormon sex abuse case Dan Workman is a Mormon church member and school bus driver in St. George, Utah. On Sept. 3, Workman, 44, was charged with 20 counts related to child sexual exploitation. Workman is being held in the Washington County Jail. Floodlit is seeking a copy of the…
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Case report: https://floodlit.org/a/b345/ Jacob Fisher (Jake Fisher) was a Mormon church member and ward young men’s leader in Eagle Mountain, Utah. Fisher was arrested in August 2025 for allegedly sending explicit videos of himself to, and attempting to meet to sexually assault, a person he thought was a 13-year-old girl (but was actually an undercover…
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Case report: Russell Kenneth Gatrell Russ Gatrell was raised in the Mormon church in Utah. In 2025, Gatrell was charged in Utah with felonies related to child sexual abuse material (CSAM). “Gatrell admitted to viewing, downloading, and sharing child sexual abuse material from his residence. Gatrell admitted to storing the child sexual abuse material on…
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Case report: https://floodlit.org/a/b343/ Tyson Green was a Mormon church member and firefighter in Murray, Utah. In August 2025, Green was arrested on two second-degree felony counts of aggravated sexual exploitation of a minor. A person familiar with Green told Floodlit that Green was a stake high council member in the Layton Utah West Stake at…
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Her statement at today’s sentencing moved us to tears. Note from Jane the executive director of Floodlit: We at floodlit.org are so proud of this brave survivor of childhood sexual abuse. We wish her complete healing and hope she continues to be a strong voice of support and advocacy for others who have experienced abuse.…
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Last week, we here at Floodlit.org added former Mormon bishop Joseph Walker of Utah to our growing database of reports of sexual abuse in the Mormon church. Walker, 70, was the initial editor in 2008 of MormonTimes.com (see https://web.archive.org/web/20080225160640/http://mormontimes.com/contact.php), a publication of the church-owned Deseret News. In 2021, Deseret Book published a biography of then-apostle…
DetailsJoseph Walker was a former Mormon bishop, stake presidency counselor and LDS Public Affairs employee in Utah; charged in 2025 with three third-degree felony counts related to child sexual exploitation; allegedly “engaged in several sexually explicit conversations within which he sought or attempted to seduce, lure, and entice [a 14-year-old girl] into engaging in multiple…
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Richard Mallard was a Mormon church member in Orem, Utah; charged in July 2025 with 41 felony counts related to child sexual exploitation; in August 2025, was released on bond, despite initially being held without bail; several LDS church members sent the court letters of support on Mallard’s behalf prior to his detention hearing. Full…
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