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Born: 1934
Died: 2023 - Places lived: California,
- Church positions: Bishopric counselor, ever-senior-missionary, High priest, Missionary, Other leader, Seminary teacher, Stake high council, Sunday school,
- Victims: 10 or more victims,
- Criminal case(s): Convicted, Found guilty, Jail, Jury trial, Probation,
Summary
Jack Lewis Cash was a Mormon bishopric counselor and stake high council member who perpetrated sex crimes in San Luis Obispo, California. Cash was a practicing chiropractor for more than 30 years.
Cash’s crimes allegedly took place between 1979 and 1995, during chiropractic visits. At least 11 of Cash’s female patients said he fondled their breasts. At least one victim reported the abuse to her church leader; Floodlit is trying to find out if the leader was Mormon.
In 1976, Cash became first counselor in the bishopric of the LDS Paso Robles Ward in the San Luis Obispo Stake.
In 1985, Cash’s chiropractic license was suspended for 45 days after an investigation into allegations that he groped his female patients’ breasts. Three women came forward, one each in 1979, 1982 and 1983, saying Cash touched them inappropriately.
In October 1995, Cash was found guilty of seven counts of misdemeanor sexual battery by a San Luis Obispo Municipal Court jury. (Case number M800228731)
In January 1996, a judge ordered Cash to spend two months in county jail and placed him on three years of probation.
Cash’s attorney said Cash would “would most likely apply for the County Jail’s in-home detention program to serve the two-month jail sentence,” according to a 1996 news article.
On October 28, 1996, the California Chiropractic Board permanently revoked Cash’s chiropractic license.
Shortly thereafter, Cash relocated to Utah, where he eventually was required to register as a sex offender for his offenses in California, according to a person familiar with Cash.
Cash’s California Mormon ward leadership knew but did not believe that he was actually guilty, despite his conviction, the person said.
The source told Floodlit that the Mormon church never disfellowshipped or excommunicated Cash for his criminal sexual behavior.
According to Floodlit’s source, Cash moved to Sandy, Utah and later to Manti, Utah, where he was not registered as a sex offender.
Eventually, Cash was forced to register as a sex offender in Utah, which appeared online and ultimately prevented Cash from becoming a bishop.
The source said a local LDS ward needed to replace a recently deceased bishop, and Cash’s name was submitted as a potential replacement. The source told a coworker who was on the stake high council that Cash was a registered sex offender, and Cash was not selected.
Cash died in 2023. His obituary said he “was a dedicated chiropractor and loved working with his patients.”
Cash’s obituary said, “Jack remained steadfast in his faith and served in many positions in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. He served in multiple bishoprics, on multiple high councils, priesthood quorum presidencies, served a mission as a young man, and then again with his beloved wife [redacted] in the Provo Utah South mission. His favorite calling, however, was probably as a teacher. He taught seminary for five years in Long Beach when he was newly married. He also taught the Gospel Doctrine class in Sunday School for many years.”
Sources
- Former Cache Man Receives Degree In Chiropractic,
- New Bishoprics,
- Doctor has history of complaints,
- Breast fondling alleged by women patients who read about charges,
- Chiropractor convicted of sexual battery,
- Groping doctor gets jail sentence,
- Jack Lewis Cash,
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1. Former Cache Man Receives Degree In Chiropractic
DOCTOR OF Chiropractic degree is awarded
former Richmond resident, Jack L. Cash.Former Cache Man Receives Degree In Chiropractic
A former resident of Richmond, Jack L. Cash, will be among the graduates of the 1961 class of the Los Angeles College of Chiropractic. The Los Angeles College is one of eight such institutions in the United States accredited by the National Chiropractic Association.The commencement will celebrate the 50th anniversary the college. Before receiving, his Doctor of Chiropractic degree. Dr. Cash will have completed a standard Grade A four year curriculum parallel to that of Grade A medical or osteopathic institutions. However, instead of the hours accorded to pharmacy and surgery (although he studies minor surgery), today's chiropractic graduate pursues studies in chiropractic techniques plus extra hours in diagnosis, physiology, anatomy, biochemistry, nutrition and physiotherapy.
A son of Daniel Dean and Juanita Landon Cash, formerly of Cache Valley and now residents of Lakewood, California, Jack received his early education in Cache County schools. He has served two years in the U. S. Army and completed a mission for the LDS Church in the Gulf States. Upon completion of his internship, Dr. Cash plans to practice in Long Beach, California.
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2. New Bishoprics
SAN LUIS OBISPO CALIFORNIA STAKE. Paso Robles Ward: Bishop Melvin Don Vay Noy, Jack Lewis Cash, Roger Allen Oxborrow.
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3. Doctor has history of complaints
Doctor has history of complaints By Dave Wilcox Telegram- Tribune PASO ROBLES A 60-year-old chiropractor who has been charged with sexual battery for allegedly fondling a patient's breasts lost his license briefly 10 years ago after three women made similar complaints. Jack Lewis Cash is scheduled to be arraigned June 8 in a Paso Robles court on the misdemeanor charge. A 41-year-old Atascadero woman went to police March 16 alleging Cash molested her during an appointment at his Paso Robles office three days earlier, according to police reports filed in court earlier this month. It is the policy of the Telegram Tribune not to publish the names of people who allege they are victims of sexual assault.
If convicted. Cash could be fined $2,000 and sentenced to a maximum six months in County Jail. Cash didn't return calls seeking comment. He told police, according to reports filed in court, that he massaged the patient's pectoral muscles, but never touched or grabbed her breasts. He also told police that the woman "appeared to be getting stimulated" during the treatment, and leaned back toward him.
Cash said that "caused him some embarrassment," according to police reports. The woman told Paso Robles police Detective Martin Sanchez she had removed her clothing from the waist up and put on an examination gown. This was normal in the three years she had seen Cash for treatment of back problems, according to the police report. During the examination, she said, Cash offered to give her a full body massage sometime. "I'll close my office and we'll do it free of charge," the woman quoted Cash telling her.
Cash, standing behind the woman, then allegedly reached around and under the gown and grasped both breasts. The woman's allegations are similar to those made by three other women one each in 1979.1 1982 and 1983. Those complaints led to a formal accusation filed in 1984 by the Board of Chiropractic Examiners, according to records attached to police reports in the current case. Cash admitted inadvertently touching the women's breasts and his license was suspended for 45 days for unprofessional conduct. He was also placed on probation for three years.
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4. Breast fondling alleged by women patients who read about charges
Breast fondling alleged by women patients who read about charges Dave Wilcox Telegram-Tribune PASO ROBLES Several women who read newspaper reports about sexual battery charges filed against a chiropractor have come forward in the month with similar complaints, according to police.
Prosecutors have filed additional charges involving two other alleged victims who claim Jack Lewis Cash fondled their breasts during examinations at his Paso Robles office. Cash, 60, was arraigned Wednesday. July 13 hearing is set on a motion to have the charges thrown out. Allegations that Cash fondles the "breasts of female patients aren't new. He lost his license briefly 10 years ago after.
three women made similar complaints with the Board of Chiropractic Examiners, according to records attached to police reports in the current case against Cash. Seven women who read in the Telegram-Tribune and Paso Robles Daily Press last month that Cash was charged with misdemeanor sexual battery have called investigators, according to police reports. One called the Paso Robles Police Department the day the TelegramTribune published the article, saying that "it made her 'sick when she read that Cash told police that the victim seemed to be "stimulated." She "explained that there wasn't anything 'stimulating' about what he did to (the other) victim or herself," the police report states. None of the women are being identified in this story because the TelegramTribune has a policy not to publish the names of people who allege they are victims of sexual assaults. Their complaints cover a period ranging from 1990 to as recently as a few months ago, according to reports of interviews conducted by Detective Martin Sanchez. In each case, the women didn't go to police with their complaints, or confront Cash directly.
Instead, according to the reports, they told either husbands, friends, church leaders or therapists. The women described similar incidents, in which they would remove their tops and put on gowns for the examination. Many alleged Cash reached around from behind to fondle their breasts. When questioned by police investigating the initial complaint, Cash said that he massaged the woman's pectoral muscles, but denied touching or grabbing her breasts. One woman said Cash climbed onto the examination table while she was laying on her back, spread her knees apart and pulled her towards him.
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5. Chiropractor convicted of sexual battery
A Municipal Court jury found a 60-year-old chiropractor guilty Monday afternoon of several counts of misdemeanor sexual battery.
Jack Lewis Cash was convicted of fondling women's breasts during examinations in his Paso Robles office. He could be fined $2,000 and sentenced to a year in County Jail. Seven women's complaints covered a period ranging from 1990 to early this year. In each case, the women didn't initially to police with their complaints or confront Cash directly. Instead, according to reports they filed later, they told husbands, friends, church leaders or therapists. In their reports, the women described similar incidents in which they would remove their tops and put on gowns for the examination. Many said Cash reached around from behind to fondle their breasts. The women's allegations were similar to those made by three other women, one each in 1979, 1982 and 1983. Those complaints led to a formal accusation filed in 1984 by the Board of Chiropractic Examiners.
At that time, Cash's license was suspended for 45 days for unprofessional conduct. The board also placed him on probation for three years.
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6. Groping doctor gets jail sentence
Groping doctor gets jail sentence By Teresa Mariani Telegram-Tribune SAN LUIS OBISPO A Paso Robles chiropractor has been ordered to jail and forbidden to practice for the next three years for fondling the breasts of six of his patients. Chiropractor Jack Lewis Cash, 60, who has an office in Paso Robles, was convicted on seven counts of misdemeanor sexual battery by a jury after a trial in Municipal Court last October. At Cash's sentencing hearing Tuesday, visiting Municipal Court Judge Kenneth Andreen ordered the chiropractor to spend two months in County Jail beginning March 4, and also placed him on three years of probation. The judge ordered Cash not to practice chiropractic medicine at any time during his three years on probation. While on probation, Cash will have to meet with probation officers and complete any treatment or counseling program they decide he needs; the chiropractor will also have to register with police as a sex offender.
Prosecutor Lee Cunningham said he felt the sentence was appropriate. Defense attorney Jeff Stein, who represented Cash, told the court Cash would most likely apply for the County Jail's in-home detention program to serve the two-month jail sentence. Cunningham said the Attorney General's Office is seeking to have Cash stripped of his chiropractor's license. The matter is before the State Department of Consumer Affairs, but hasn't been heard yet. This isn't the first time Cash has run into problems for fondling female patients.
Cash had his license suspended in 1984 by the state Board of Chiropractic Examiners for "unprofessional conduct" after three women charged that Cash fondled their breasts during chiropractic exams between 1979 and 1983. The case that led to Cash's conviction on sexual battery charges involved a 41-year-old Paso Robles woman. She came forward in May 1995 to report to police that Cash had reached under her examination gown from behind and grabbed both her breasts during her visit to his office for treatment of back problems. The grab came after Cash offered to give her a full body massage and said, "I'll close my office and we'll do it free of charge," according to the woman's report to police. When the police report was publicized, seven other women came to police to report similar breast-fonding incidents during visits to Cash.
After reviewing the reports, the District Attorney's Office filed eight counts of misdemeanor sexual battery against Cash. The jury convicted Cash on seven of those counts Oct. 31, 1995.
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7. Jack Lewis Cash
Jack Lewis Cash
December 16, 1934 — December 27, 2023
St. George, UTSt. George, Utah – Jack Lewis Cash, 89, passed away on Wednesday, December 27, 2023. He was born on Sunday, December 16, 1934, in San Francisco, California to Daniel El Dean Cash and Juanita Landon Cash. He married Gernelda Gayle MacGregor on Saturday, September 10, 1960 in the Los Angeles Temple of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Later, on Saturday, December 31, 1966 he married [second wife] in Las Vegas, Nevada. That union was later solemnized in the Los Angeles Temple of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
Jack spent his childhood in Long Beach, California. When he was twelve, the family moved to Richmond, Utah to live on a farm. They spent four wonderful years in Utah, then moved back to Long Beach when he was sixteen years old. In 1952, he graduated from Jordan High School, in Long Beach, California. In 1954 he enlisted in the United States Army and served in Japan. In 1956, he became a missionary for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and served honorably in the Gulf States Mission.
After his time in the military and mission field, Jack enrolled in the Los Angeles College of Chiropractic. He graduated in 1962 and began practicing soon after that. He had thriving practices in Long Beach, Atascadero, and Paso Robles, California. He was a dedicated chiropractor and loved working with his patients. He practiced for more than thirty years. He was active in the local chapter of the California Chiropractic Association, the Kawanis Club, and served as a trustee for the Paso Robles Joint Union School District. In that capacity, he was able to present several of his children with their Junior High School and Senior High School diplomas.
Jack remained steadfast in his faith and served in many positions in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. He served in multiple bishoprics, on multiple high councils, priesthood quorum presidencies, served a mission as a young man, and then again with his beloved wife [redacted] in the Provo Utah South mission. His favorite calling, however, was probably as a teacher. He taught seminary for five years in Long Beach when he was newly married. He also taught the Gospel Doctrine class in Sunday School for many years.
After retirement, he and his wife [redacted] first moved to Sandy, Utah, then in 1997 to their beloved Manti, Utah, where they bought and restored a beautiful brick Victorian home that was built in 1903. They spent countless hours working on that home. Jack also loved to garden, paint, sing, and dance with his wife. He also loved to cook and was renowned for his homemade French bread and his Dutch oven cooking skills.
He is survived by [relatives' names redacted].
Funeral services will be Friday, January 12, 2024 at 1:00 PM at the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, 1483 Angel Arch Drive, Saint George UT 84790. A viewing will be held immediately prior, at 11:30 AM. Interment will take place in the Ivins City Cemetery.
Arrangements are made under the direction of Hughes Mortuary, 1037 East 700 South, St. George, Utah, (435) 674-5000. In lieu of flowers, donations may be made to Intermountain Homecare and Hospice – St. George, 555 South Bluff St., #100, St. George, UT 84770.
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