Summary

06/27/85 Oregon
LDS Jay Douglas Mitchell “was charged with several counts of sodomy and sexual abuse
involving young children (as young as eight)” He “pled guilty to eight separate charges
and …was sentenced to a total of sixty years in prison with a minimum of thirty years.” It
took “BSA nearly nine months to ban Mitchell from Scouting.”
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- Criminal: Convicted, Prison,
- Positions: Scout leader,
- Crime: 1980s, in Oregon,
- Convicted: 1980s,
- Victims: Multiple victims, Unknown number of victims,
- Mission: no
- Locations: Oregon,
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