Crime: 1980s, 1990s, 
Crime country:
Scotland, United Kingdom,
- Convicted:
2014,
LDS positions: Youth leader, - During crime: Youth leader,
- LDS mission:
no
- Alleged:
8 victims, Multiple victims,
Criminal case(s): Convicted, Jail, Registered sex offender, 
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Crime country:
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This case arose in Glasgow, Scotland in 1984.
Elvik filmed boys in various stages of undress.
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from UK Database:
“January 2014
Pervert church youth leader jailed for 18 months after admitting a host of indecency offences against eight young boys
A church youth leader who admitted indecency offences against eight boys has been jailed for 18 months.
Karl Monsen Elvik, an ex-member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints in Pollok, Glasgow, committed the offences from 1986 to 1994.
His victims were aged between 12 and 16 when the offences took place.
Elvik, 51, admitted his crimes after an anonymous report to police in 2011.
He admitted taking indecent images of children, four charges of lewd and libidinous behaviour and two charges of indecent assault dating from 1986 to 1994.
He was also placed on the sex offenders’ register and told he would be supervised for nine months after his release.
Elvik, from Wishaw, North Lanarkshire, lived in Nitshill, Glasgow, at the time of the offences.
Years later he was confronted by one of his victims and begged him not to go to the police, but it was later reported anonymously in April 2011.
The court heard Monsen Elvik made extensive admissions and gave a list of names of victims.”
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- Pervert church youth leader jailed for 18 months after admitting a host of indecency offences against eight young boys - UK Database - 2014-01-10,
- Pervert church youth leader jailed for 18 months after admitting a host of indecency offences against eight young boys - Daily Record - 2014-01-10,
- Church Youth Leader Jailed For Abusing Boys - Clyde1 - 2014-01-09,
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1. Pervert church youth leader jailed for 18 months after admitting a host of indecency offences against eight young boys - UK Database - 2014-01-10
Glasgow Sheriff Court heard how he took pictures of boys in states of undress, timed them sitting naked in cold baths and rubbed ice cubes on them.
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The court heard how he invited one boy to go running with him and afterwards at his house, massaged him and indecently touched him.
He invented a game where the boys would take turns sitting in a cold bath and timed them to see who could last the longest.
The youth leader would rub ice-cubes on their bodies or have them strip if they lost a game while at his house.
On one occasion when a boy was alone in the flat sitting in the bath, Elvik appeared in the bathroom naked, squirting water from a syringe. -
2. Pervert church youth leader jailed for 18 months after admitting a host of indecency offences against eight young boys - Daily Record - 2014-01-10
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3. Church Youth Leader Jailed For Abusing Boys - Clyde1 - 2014-01-09
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