former Mormon bishop; sentenced in 2001 to 21 months in federal prison for luring a 17-year-old North Carolina girl to Utah for sex
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Personal information

  • Bodily, Gordon Brent
  • Born: 1949
  • Gender: Male

Case summary

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Former Mormon bishop Gordon Bodily was sentenced in 2001 to 21 months in federal prison for luring a 17-year-old North Carolina girl to Utah for sex. He was also sentenced to 24 months probation after the prison term and ordered to undergo sex offender treatment.

He was also a former high school gym teacher.

from “RANDY BISHOP HAD SEX WITH GIRL OF 15“:

“A RANDY bishop is facing 10 years in jail after admitting having steamy sex sessions with an under-age girl.

Bishop Gordon Bodily pleaded guilty to luring a 17-year-old girl to Salt Lake City to have sex with him by posing as a teenage member of the Mormon Church on the internet.

Bodily admitted meeting the North Carolina girl in February through a teen chatroom focusing on The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

The Mormon bishop originally pretended to be a 19-year-old.

After the relationship began to include sexual conversations on the phone, Bodily admitted to being a 51-year-old man.

A few months later he invited the girl to Utah, telling her parents she would be visiting colleges and Mormon landmarks.

The two had sex at a Salt Lake City motel several times over a three-day period in June.

Bodily has since been removed from his position as a bishop and excommunicated.

He also stands to lose his job as a physical education teacher at night school.

Under Utah law, it is illegal for a person to have sex with a 16- or 17-year-old if they are 10 or more years older than the minor. Bodily will be sentenced in March when he appears at the District Court. “

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LDS/Mormon church membership history

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LDS mission information

The accused did not serve a full-time LDS mission.

LDS temple marriage information

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LDS church positions ever held by the accused: Bishop
LDS church positions held by the accused at the time of the alleged crime(s): Bishop
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LDS church response(s)

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  • Alleged failure to report by local LDS leaders? no
  • Alleged misconduct by local LDS leaders? no
  • Alleged misconduct by global LDS leaders? no

FLOODLIT is not aware whether the Mormon church paid any settlement amounts related to this case.

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