Convicted:
2007, 
LDS positions: Bishop, Bishopric counselor, Other leader, Stake president, - During crime: Unknown position,
- LDS mission:
no
- Alleged:
2 victims, Multiple victims,
- Alleged crime scenes:
Unknown crime scene,
Criminal case(s): Admitted guilt, Convicted, Prison, - Alleged failure to report
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Convicted:
LDS positions: 
Alleged:
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Floodlit’s sources indicate that Brinkerhoff was Bishop of the Lovelock Nevada ward in the early 1980s and Stake President of the Winnemucca Nevada Stake in the mid-late 1980s.
Brinkerhoff was arrested in Nevada in 2007 and admitted to sexually abusing two children. He was convicted and sentenced to 5 to 15 years in prison for battery with intent to commit sexual assault, and 12 to 32 months in prison for sexual abuse of a child.
In 1957, as a 28-year-old, Brinkerhoff served as second counselor in the LDS Lovelock branch presidency in Lovelock, Nevada. He was still serving in that Mormon church calling in 1961, when he was made second counselor in the Lovelock ward bishopric while that unit was converted from a branch into a ward.
Brinkerhoff died in 2019 in Nevada.
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Sources
- marriage of the accused - announcement beforehand,
- marriage of the accused - report after,
- 1961 - became bishopric second counselor,
- 1979 - managed an LDS stake welfare farm in Lovelock, Nevada,
- 2007 arrest,
- Nevada Department of Corrections - offender ID 1009276,
- Obituary | Allen J Brinkerhoff,
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1. marriage of the accused - announcement beforehand
[married 1955-07-14]
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2. marriage of the accused - report after
[married 1955-07-14]
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3. 1961 - became bishopric second counselor
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4. 1979 - managed an LDS stake welfare farm in Lovelock, Nevada
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5. 2007 arrest
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6. Nevada Department of Corrections - offender ID 1009276
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7. Obituary | Allen J Brinkerhoff
Allen J Brinkerhoff, on October 4, 2019, returned home to his Heavenly Father [...] He was 90 years old.
Allen was born July 20, 1929, in Fillmore, Utah to Walter and Viola Brinkerhoff. In 1937, his family moved to Winnemucca, Nevada, seeking work during the Great Depression. He attended school through eighth grade there. Allen and his father worked as trappers. Allen’s job was to stretch and prepare the furs. His family moved to Lovelock when he was a Freshman in high school. He was sure he might die at the thought of the move, but he soon learned to love his life in Lovelock, and it became his home for 76 years.
His father bought a gas station in Lovelock. Allen sold gas and did some mechanic work. At the end of World War II, his dad bought some land in Lower Valley and began farming. After high school, Allen attended LDS business college so that he could learn to do the books for the farm and take some pressure off his parents. In 1950, he joined the National Guard and served for two years.
After his service in the military, he returned home to work on the farm. At the age of 25, he married [...] July 14, 1955.
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Allen served on the school board for 16 years and the water board for many years. He was an active member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints.
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