12 cases found.
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Jack Lund Schofield
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- Victims: Multiple victims, Unknown number of victims,
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Born: 1923
Died: 2015
- LDS mission:
unknown
Alleged coverup- Criminal: Never charged, Not convicted,
- Civil: No civil case,
- was an LDS church member, school administrator and state senator in Las Vegas, Nevada; accused of sexual harassment; died in 2015; a victim told FLOODLIT he sold her repeatedly to sex trafficking clients at a motel in Las Vegas.
- Case report »
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Michael Joe McClellan
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- Victims: Multiple victims, Unknown number of victims,
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Born: 1957
LDS positions: Youth leader, - LDS mission:
United Kingdom - Scotland
- Criminal: Convicted,
- was an LDS church member in Las Vegas, Nevada; arrested and convicted of LEWDNESS WITH A MINOR (ATTEMPT); was sentenced to prison; currently lives in Cottonwood, Arizona.
- Case report »
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Arthur Gus Bennett
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- Victims: 2 victims, Multiple victims,
- LDS positions: Unknown position,
- LDS mission:
unknown
- Criminal: Died awaiting trial, Not convicted, Suicide,
- was an LDS church member in Hurricane, Utah; accused of sexual abuse of two teenage girls; allegedly faked a suicide to collect insurance money; was arrested and charged with murder and sexual abuse; died by suicide in jail while awaiting trial.
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Michael James Lister
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- AKA Mike Lister
- Victims: 2 victims, Multiple victims,
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Born: 1960
- LDS positions: Unknown position,
- LDS mission:
unknown
- Criminal: Convicted, Plea agreement, Pleaded guilty, Prison,
- was an LDS church member in or near Cedar City, Utah and Bunkerville, Nevada; accused in Utah in 2023 of sexual abuse of two young girls; pleaded guilty to one count of sodomy on a child; sentenced in June 2023 to 25 years to life in prison.
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Boyd K Lords
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- Victims: 1 victim,
- LDS positions: High priest, Missionary, Ward executive secretary,
- LDS mission:
United States - Indiana Indianapolis
- Criminal: Convicted,
- was a Mormon church member in Winnemucca, Nevada; accused of child sexual abuse; pleaded guilty in 2022 to one felony count of lewdness with a child under the age of 14; was sentenced to prison.
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Paul Maxce Jellum
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- AKA Paul M Jellum
- Victims: 1 victim,
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Born: 1959
- LDS positions: Scout leader,
- LDS mission:
no
- Alleged coverup
- Criminal: Police investigation, Unknown result,
- Civil: No civil case,
- was a Mormon scout leader in Logan, Utah in the 1980s; suspended by the BSA in 1987 after being accused of sexually abusing a 14-year-old Boy Scout in his troop during a 1986 Scouting event at Camp Hunt near Bear Lake, Utah; in 1990, Jellum became a scoutmaster in a Nevada LDS ward despite his prior suspension; in 1991, Jellum admitted to the abuse.
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Robert Eric Longman
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- Victims: 1 victim,
- LDS positions: Missionary,
- LDS mission:
no
- Criminal: Convicted, No contest, Probation,
- was a Mormon missionary in Corpus Christi, Texas; molested a three-year old in a bedroom while two other missionaries talked with the mother; pleaded no contest to charges filed in May 1989 of indecency with a child; sentenced to eight years probation, a $1,000 fine, and required to pay $400 in court costs.
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John Misseldine
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- Victims: 2 victims, Multiple victims,
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Born: 1982
- LDS positions: Missionary,
- LDS mission:
no
- Alleged coverup
- Criminal: Alford plea, Convicted, Probation, Registered sex offender,
- Civil: Civil case dismissed, civil-lds-payment-victim-out-court, lawsuit against LDS church, Settlement, Unknown result,
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LDS church payment: $782,000
- was a Mormon missionary in Nevada; charged with sexually abusing two little children at an LDS chapel in the Las Vegas area; in 2005, made a plea deal to avoid prison, via an Alford plea to two counts; a lawsuit said a local Mormon leader failed to report abuse to police; in 2008, sentenced to prison after violating the plea deal; as of 2024, lives in Las Vegas, Nevada as a registered sex offender.
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Martin Gillen
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- Victims: Multiple victims,
- LDS positions: Ministering/home teacher,
- LDS mission:
no
- Criminal: Convicted,
- Civil: No civil case,
- was a Mormon church member in Nevada and Colorado; in 2002, Gillen was convicted of sexual assault of a 6-year-old and sentenced to eight years in prison in Colorado; in 2016, arrested and charged again with child sex abuse, but case was dismissed.
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Arlo Kay Atkin
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- AKA Kay Atkin
- Victims: 1 victim,
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Born: 1956
- LDS positions: Bishop, Missionary,
- LDS mission:
no
- Alleged coverup
- Criminal: Convicted,
- Civil: Civil case dismissed with prejudice, lawsuit against LDS church, Unknown result,
- 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, served time in prison.
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Scott Alan Darrington
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- Victims: Multiple victims, Unknown number of victims,
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Born: 1967
- LDS positions: Bishop,
- LDS mission:
unknown
- Criminal: Convicted, Prison,
- Civil: No civil case,
- was a former LDS bishop and assistant school principal in Fallon, Nevada; convicted of possession of child pornography, spent a year in prison.
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Allen J Brinkerhoff
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- Victims: 2 victims, Multiple victims,
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Born: 1929
Died: 2019
- LDS positions: Bishop, Bishopric counselor, Other leader, Stake president,
- LDS mission:
no
- Criminal: Convicted,
- Civil: No civil case,
- was a Mormon bishop and stake president and manager of an LDS stake welfare farm in Nevada; in 2007, found guilty of child sexual abuse and sentenced.
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