Showing 25 of 4,074 Mormon church members accused of sex crimes or Mormon leaders accused of failure to report sexual abuse
Jan Manley
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- was a Mormon church member in Virginia; arrested in 2018 on suspicion of various offenses related to child sexual abuse; allegedly abused multiple children.
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- Positions: Unknown position,
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Jason Gagnon
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- was a Mormon church member who allegedly perpetrated sex crimes in Colorado, Oregon and Virginia.
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- Positions: Youth leader,
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Michael Watson
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- was a Mormon church member; accused of sexual abuse.
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- Positions: Bishopric counselor, Stake high council, Youth leader,
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James Sirles
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- was a Mormon church member in Chesterfield, Virginia; convicted of possession of child pornography and production and distribution of child pornography.
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- Crime: 2000s, in Virginia,
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Thomas Evans-Southall
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- was an LDS bishop in Charlottesville, Virginia; originally from England; accused of sexual abuse; convicted in 2018 and sentenced to two consecutive terms of two years in prison.
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- Crime: 2010s, in Virginia,
- Positions: Bishop, Elders quorum, Youth leader,
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Christopher Fleming
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- was an LDS church member in Chesapeake, Virginia; found guilty of 10 counts of various sexual abuse to a minor; currently incarcerated in Virginia.
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- Positions: Youth leader,
Alleged coverup
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Frank Ferrara
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- was a Mormon church member and doctor in Northern Virginia; convicted in 1997 of four counts of forcible sodomy.
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- Crime: 1990s, in Virginia,
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Charles Tyhurst
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- was a former LDS bishop and optometrist in southwest Virginia; accused of sexual abuse; convicted; 2020: sentenced in Virginia to prison for five years for aggravated sexual battery of a minor; 2024: registered sex offender; lives in Richmond, Virginia.
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- Positions: Bishop,
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John Goodrich
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- was a former Mormon bishop and dentist in Idaho; accused of child sexual abuse and of having nonconsensual sex with a woman he admitting to drugging; given a withheld judgement; in December 2023, the AP reported that the Mormon church had offered $300,000 to a victim and her mother to not use her story to sue the church, and to keep the NDA secret; arrested in Virginia in March 2024.
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- Crime: 2000s, in Idaho, Virginia,
- Positions: Bishop,
- Alleged coverup
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David McConkie
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- was a Mormon bishop (approximately 2013-16), stake president (2016-21) and deputy district attorney in Colorado; paternal grandson of Mormon apostle Bruce R. McConkie; arrested in 2023 and charged with felony sexual assault on a child by someone in a position of trust; allegedly confessed child sexual assault to a Mormon church leader in 2008; in April 2025, proposed a plea deal to avoid prison.
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- Alleged crime: 2000s, 2010s, in Colorado,
- Positions: Bishop, Bishopric counselor, Missionary, Scout leader, Stake president, Youth leader,
- Alleged coverup
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Timothy Turner
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- was an LDS church member and middle school band teacher in West Virginia; convicted in 2020 of child sexual abuse.
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- Crime: 2010s, in West Virginia,
- Positions: Scout leader,
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Shawn Frost
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- was an LDS church member in Virginia; arrested in 2022 and charged with child sexual abuse; in 2023, sued in $10.3 million lawsuit alleging child sexual abuse of three more victims; he was the victim's home teacher / ministering brother.
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- Positions: Ministering/home teacher, Missionary, Other leader, Stake clerk, Youth leader,
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Cecil Jacobson
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- was a Mormon church member and fertility doctor in Virginia; found guilty of secretly using his own sperm to artificially inseminate patients.
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- Positions: Unknown position,
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Alan Andrus
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- was a Mormon bishop in Placerville, El Dorado County, California; accused of sexual abuse in 2020; as of June 2024, the case is proceeding through the trial setting process.
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- Alleged crime: 2010s, in California,
- Positions: Bishop, Missionary,
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Calvin McGee
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- was an LDS missionary in Virginia in 2022; accused of soliciting sexually explicit pictures and video from a person he believed to be an 11-year-old girl, and inviting her to meet in person; arrested in Boise, Idaho in July 2023 and accused of rape of a minor; pleaded guilty to two charges related to child sexual abuse; sentenced in May 2024 to three to 25 years in prison.
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- Crime: 2020s, in Idaho, Virginia,
- Positions: Missionary,
- Alleged coverup
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Robert Dahle
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- was an LDS church member, Utah Highway Patrol trooper; alleged rapist of a 13-year-old girl.
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- Positions: Elders quorum, High priest, Scout leader, Sunday school,
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Adam Phipps
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- was an LDS church member in Manassas, Virginia; accused of taking indecent liberties with children; charged and convicted in 1993; registered sex offender.
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- Crime: 1990s, in Virginia,
- Positions: Unknown position,
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Robert Kempton
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- was a former Mormon bishop and stake president in Arizona; was an attorney and served a mission as a legal counsel for the LDS church in Africa; arrested in 2014 in a police sting for prostitution.
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- Alleged crime: 2010s, in Arizona,
- Positions: Bishop, Bishopric counselor, Missionary, Scout leader, Stake president, Youth leader,
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Keith Vallejo
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- was a Mormon bishop in Utah; accused of sexually abusing and raping two underage girls; in 2017, was found guilty in a jury trial of ten counts of second-degree felony forcible sexual abuse and one count of first-degree felony object rape; sentenced to five years to life in prison.
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- Crime: 2010s, in Utah,
- Positions: Bishop, High priest, Other leader,
- Alleged coverup
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Richard Ray
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- was an LDS church member in Arizona; sentenced in 1984 to 61 years in prison for molesting five girls; allegedly had more than 30 victims; the LDS church was involved in a lawsuit regarding clergy-penitent privilege; the church settled out of court for an undisclosed amount just before trial.
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- Crime: 1970s, 1980s, in Arizona,
- Positions: Missionary,
- Alleged coverup
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Eric Avant
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- was a Mormon church member and cub scout leader in Norfolk, Virginia; convicted on 14 counts of aggravated sexual battery; sentenced in 1988 to 26 years in prison for molesting eight boys; had as many as 41 alleged victims.
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- Crime: 1970s, in Virginia,
- Positions: Scout leader,
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John Misseldine
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- was a Mormon missionary in Nevada; charged with sexually abusing two 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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- Crime: 2000s, in Nevada,
- Positions: Missionary,
- Alleged coverup
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Shawn Gooden
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- was an LDS bishop in Lebanon, Pennsylvania from 2016-2020; arrested in 2022 and charged with sexual abuse of two children in Virginia from 1997-2000; pleaded guilty in July 2023 in Virginia to four felony counts; sentenced in November 2023 in Virginia to prison time and supervised probation on release; charged in July 2023 in Pennsylvania with more child sex abuse charges.
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- Crime: 1990s, 2000s, in Pennsylvania, Virginia,
- Positions: Bishop, Scout leader, Stake high council, Stake presidency counselor, Youth leader,
- Alleged coverup
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Christopher Jensen
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- was a Mormon church member in Utah and West Virginia; sentenced to 35 to 75 years in prison for sexually abusing two children; local LDS church coverup alleged; LDS church settled civil lawsuit mid-trial in 2018 for $32 million, also spending over $27 million on legal fees; FLOODLIT.org discovered the settlement details in 2025 and made them public for the first time.
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- Crime: 2000s, 2010s, in Utah, West Virginia,
- Positions: Missionary,
- Alleged coverup
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James Adams
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- was a Mormon church member in Beckley, West Virginia; sentenced to prison in 1994 for sexually abusing multiple children; in 1996, a $750 million lawsuit was filed against the Mormon church alleging coverup; the suit was settled out of court in 2000.
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- Crime: 1980s, in West Virginia,
- Positions: Other leader,
- Alleged coverup
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