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Case summary
Add info | Back to topFloodlit’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 as that unit was converted from a branch into a ward.
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Sources
- 1961 - became bishopric second counselor (archive) - Reno Gazette - Journal - 24 May 1961
- 1979 - managed an LDS stake welfare farm in Lovelock, Nevada (archive) - Mason Valley News - 19 Oct 1979
- 2007 arrest (archive) - Reno Gazette - Journal - 9 Feb 2007
- Nevada Department of Corrections - offender ID 1009276 (archive) - Nevada Department of Corrections - 15 Mar 2023
Case summary - other sources
- Directory of the General Authorities and Officers of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints - 1957 - p. 272
- Directory of the General Authorities and Officers of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints - 1961 - p. 269
LDS/Mormon church membership history
Add info | Back to topLDS mission information
The accused did not serve a full-time LDS mission.
LDS temple marriage information
The accused was married (sealed) in the Logan Mormon temple in Jul 1955.
Alleged victim(s)
Add info | Back to top- Number of alleged victim(s) - note if approximate:
- Average age of alleged victim(s) at time of alleged crime(s):
LDS church response(s)
Add info | Back to top- 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.
