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Criminal case(s): Convicted, Prison, 
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Ben Nelson was a Mormon church member who allegedly perpetrated a sex crime in 2015 in Portland, Oregon.
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- Geoffrey Ashdown (1947 – ) was a Mormon bishop and deputy school principal in Australia; convicted after alleged sexual abuse of two boys; the alleged abuse took place while Ashdown was a bishop; died in 2012
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