Mormon sexual abuse database: browse our case reports
FLOODLIT.org has a free public database of hundreds of reports about people who committed or allegedly committed sex crimes, including sexual abuse, while they were active Mormon church members. You can browse the entire database in all sorts of ways, including by LDS church position, number of victims, places where crimes took place, or criminal/civil case result.
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Case #735: Harry O. Jones IV
- is a registered sex offender lives in Fort Wayne, Indiana
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Born: 1970
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- Guilty, Pleaded guilty, probation,
- The accused was a Mormon church member in Buffalo Grove, Illinois; convicted of possessing CSAM; is a registered sex offender.
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Case #665: Malcolm Noyes Goodwin
- AKA Dr. Goodwin
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Born: 1940
- High priest,
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- Ongoing criminal case, Unknown,
- The accused was an LDS church member and retired pathologist and coroner's physician in O'Fallon, Illinois; US Army Reserves and Air Force veteran; arrested in 2022 for Predatory Sexual Assault of a Child; charged with six felony counts of predatory criminal sexual assault involving minors.
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Case #577: Roland Edwin Westrup
- AKA Ronald Westrup (misspelled)
- March 2023: arrested and charged in Utah
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Born: 1999
- Missionary,
- United States - Missouri St. Louis (also served in Champaign-Urbana, Illinois) 2018-2020
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- He was a Mormon church member and returned missionary (St. Louis, Missouri) in approximately 2018-2020; arrested in Salt Lake County, Utah in March 2023; charged with 10 felony counts of sexual exploitation of a minor; admitted to possessing and sharing child pornography, and to having sexual fantasies for many years about having sex with male children as young as infants to teens.
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Case #513: Kay Leroi Walker
- January 2024: lives in Idaho Falls, Idaho
- Victims: 5+, 8,
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Born: 1942
- Missionary,
- United States - served in Virginia and North Carolina
- 1966
- Alford plea, Guilty,
- The accused was a Mormon church member and Nauvoo Inn owner in Nauvoo, Illinois; charged with sexually abusing his employees; entered an Alford plea in 2004, resulting in a conviction while maintaining his innocence before the court; January 2024: lives in Idaho Falls, Idaho.
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Case #478: Leizza Alcantara Adams
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- Unknown,
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- Alleged failure to report
- Guilty,
- She was the wife of sexual abuser Paul Douglas Adams; sentenced in 2018 in Arizona to 2.5 years in prison after pleading no contest to two felony counts of child abuse (not sexual abuse).
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Case #462: Robert Norman Dahle
- AKA Bob
- Victims: 1,
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Born: 1937
Died: 2022
- Sunday school teacher,
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- The accused was an LDS church member, Utah Highway Patrol trooper; alleged rapist of a 13-year-old girl.
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Case #191: Harry O Jones
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Born: 1970
- Scout leader, Youth leader,
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- Guilty,
- He was an LDS church member in Illinois; sentenced to 30 months of probation for possession of child pornography.
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Case #201: Christopher W Kite
- Victims: 1,
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- He was an LDS church member in Chicago, Illinois; accused of sexual abuse.
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Case #112: John Wood Fanning
- Victims: 1,
- Scout leader,
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- Admitted to wrongdoing, Unknown,
- The accused was a Mormon church member and scout leader in Utah; accused of sexual abuse in 1987 of a teenage boy during an overnight scouting activity.
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Case #76: Alfred Francis Cote
- AKA Fred Cote
- Victims: 5+,
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Born: 1958
- Scout leader,
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- Guilty,
- The accused was a Mormon church member and Boy scout leader in New Hampshire and Nauvoo, Illinois; convicted in the 1980s and in 2020 of child sexual abuse.
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FLOODLIT.org has a free public database of hundreds of reports about people who committed or allegedly committed sex crimes, including sexual abuse, while they were active Mormon church members. You can browse the entire database in all sorts of ways, including by LDS church position, number of victims, places where crimes took place, or criminal/civil case result.
Browse by LDS position and more »