4080 people accused of sex crimes they perpetrated or allegedly perpetrated while active in the LDS/Mormon church.
Browse by LDS position and more »Gerald Wayne Burgie
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Born: 1939
LDS positions: Scout leader, - LDS mission:
no - Victims: 1 victim,
- Crime scenes: Unknown crime scene,
- Criminal: Convicted, Probation,
- Civil: No civil case,
- Gerald Burgie was a Mormon church member and scout leader in Utah; charged in 1981 with third-degree felony forcible sexual abuse; convicted of attempted sexual abuse of a child
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Tony Lee Burleson
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- LDS mission:
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- Criminal: Convicted,
- Tony Burleson was an LDS church member; accused of a sex crime
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John Haws Burrell
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- LDS positions: Unknown position,
- LDS mission:
no
- Victims: 2 victims, Multiple victims,
- Crime scenes: Unknown crime scene,
- Criminal: Convicted,
- Civil: No civil case,
- John Burrell was a Mormon church member; pleaded guilty of child sexual abuse
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William Leonard Butcher
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- LDS positions: Unknown position,
- LDS mission:
no
- Victims: 10 or more victims, Multiple victims,
- Crime scenes: Public,
- Criminal: Convicted, Plea agreement, Pleaded guilty, Prison, Registered sex offender,
- Civil: No civil case,
- William Butcher was a Mormon church member in Provo, Utah; turned himself in to police in 2013, three days before he was planning to begin a Mormon mission, and admitted to sexually abusing 12 boys and girls; pleaded guilty to child sexual abuse charges; sentenced in 2014 to 18 years to life in prison; as of 2025, lives in Provo, Utah
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Samuel Heber Butler
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Born: 1995
- LDS positions: Unknown position,
- LDS mission:
no
- Victims: Multiple victims,
- Crime scenes: Unknown crime scene,
- Criminal: Convicted, Prison,
- Civil: No civil case,
- Samuel Butler was a Mormon church member; sentenced in 2020 to 15 years to life in prison for child sexual abuse
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Timothy Morgan Butler
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Born: 1959
- LDS positions: Unknown position,
- LDS mission:
unknown
- Victims: 2 victims, Multiple victims,
- Criminal: Convicted,
- Timothy Butler was an LDS church member; accused of sexual abuse
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Raphael Giuseppe Caccioppoli
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Born: 1971
- LDS positions: Sunday school,
- LDS mission:
unknown
- Victims: 2 victims, Multiple victims,
- Crime scenes: Victim's home,
- Alleged coverup
- Criminal: Convicted, Jail,
- Civil: No civil case,
- Raphael Caccioppoli was a Mormon Sunday school teacher, lawyer and Justice Ministry judicial officer in New Zealand; confessed sex crime behavior to a Mormon bishop in 1998; LDS leaders did not tell police or local parents of children he was left alone to supervise; turned himself in to police in 2007; sentenced to five years in jail for child sexual abuse and animal sex abuse (bestiality)
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Robert D Campbell
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- LDS positions: Missionary,
- LDS mission:
United States - Tennessee Nashville 1987-1988
- Victims: 2 victims, Multiple victims,
- Crime scenes: LDS activity, LDS building,
- Criminal: Unknown result,
- Civil: Unknown result,
- Robert Campbell was an LDS church member in Nebraska; accused of sexual abuse
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Cory Clyde Campbell
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- LDS positions: Youth leader,
- LDS mission:
unknown
- Victims: 5 victims, Multiple victims,
- Crime scenes: Unknown crime scene,
- Criminal: Convicted, Prison,
- Civil: No civil case,
- Cory Campbell was a Mormon church member in Ogden, Utah; accused of sexually abusing five underage girls; sentenced in 2010 to prison
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Brett Candelaria
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Born: 1972
- LDS positions: Unknown position,
- LDS mission:
no
- Victims: Multiple victims,
- Crime scenes: Unknown crime scene,
- Criminal: Convicted, Plea agreement, Pleaded guilty, Prison,
- Civil: No civil case,
- Brett Candelaria was a Mormon church member in Colorado; pleaded guilty to charges of child sexual abuse on multiple occasions; sentenced in 2008 to two consecutive terms of 10 years to life in prison; later sentenced to 36 more years to life
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Jon Rick Carpenter
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Born: 1964
- LDS positions: Sunday school,
- LDS mission:
no
- Victims: 2 victims, Multiple victims,
- Crime scenes: Unknown crime scene,
- Criminal: Convicted, Prison,
- Civil: No civil case,
- Jon Carpenter was an LDS church member; sentenced to prison for child sexual abuse; the day after sentencing, injured himself to avoid serving longer in prison
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Dustin Scott Cassady
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Born: 1981
- LDS positions: Youth leader,
- LDS mission:
unknown
- Victims: Multiple victims, Unknown number of victims,
- Criminal: Convicted, Plea agreement, Pleaded guilty, Registered sex offender,
- Civil: No civil case,
- Dustin Cassady was a Mormon church member in the Sacramento, California area (Carmichael); accused of child sexual exploitation; pleaded guilty; as of March 2024, lives in Roseville, California as a registered sex offender
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Robert Tanner Cervo
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Born: 1976
- LDS positions: Youth leader,
- LDS mission:
no
- Victims: 1 victim,
- Criminal: Unknown result,
- Robert Cervo was an LDS youth leader and schoolteacher in Abbotsford, British Columbia, Canada; accused of sexual abuse; agreed in 2015 to sign a peace bond (not a conviction, but an agreement to comply with certain conditions for a specified period) and the four criminal charges against him were stayed
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Tanner Paul Clark
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Born: 1993
- LDS positions: Unknown position,
- LDS mission:
unknown
- Victims: Multiple victims, Unknown number of victims,
- Criminal: Convicted, Jail, Prison, Probation, Violated parole/probation,
- Civil: No civil case,
- Tanner Clark was an LDS church member in Utah; sentenced in 2019 to 90 days in jail for two counts of unlawful sexual conduct with a 16 or 17 year old, two counts of attempted sexual exploitation of a minor, and two counts of dealing in materials harmful to minors; may have had over 100 victims; arrested in 2021 (while on probation) for enticing a minor; convicted and sentenced to 1 to 5 years in prison
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Michael James Clay
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Born: 1974
- LDS positions: BYU, Church employee, Scout leader, Youth leader,
- LDS mission:
no
- Victims: 3 victims, Multiple victims,
- Criminal: Community service, Convicted, No contest, Plea agreement, Probation,
- Civil: No civil case,
- Michael Clay was an LDS church member and BYU professor in Provo, Utah; charged with sexually abusing three students; entered a plea bargain in May 2023 in which he agreed to plead no contest to three class A misdemeanor charges of sexual battery, complete 24 months of probation, do 50 hours of community service, and take a sexual boundaries course; sentenced in June 2023 according to the plea deal
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Michael Wayne Coleman
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Born: 1960
- LDS positions: Bishop,
- LDS mission:
Argentina - Argentina Buenos Aires South 1980-1982
- Victims: 2 victims, Multiple victims,
- Crime scenes: Online,
- Alleged coverup
- Criminal: Unknown result,
- Civil: No civil case,
- Michael Coleman was an LDS bishop and former sound recording engineer in Mesa, Arizona (Lehi 2nd Ward); arrested in 2014 for sexual solicitation of a minor online; the alleged crime took place while he was bishop
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Keldon Severn Cook
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- LDS positions: Unknown position,
- LDS mission:
no
- Victims: 1 victim,
- Criminal: Convicted, Plea agreement, Pleaded guilty,
- Civil: No civil case,
- Keldon Cook was a Mormon church member in Utah; pleaded guilty of child sexual abuse
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Dennis David Collins
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- LDS positions: Scout leader,
- LDS mission:
no
- Victims: Multiple victims, Unknown number of victims,
- Criminal: Convicted, Plea agreement, Pleaded guilty,
- Civil: No civil case,
- Dennis Collins was an LDS church member in Washington; pleaded guilty to child sexual abuse
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John Patrick Conway
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- LDS positions: Unknown position,
- LDS mission:
no
- Victims: 1 victim,
- Criminal: Convicted, Unknown result,
- John Conway was a Mormon church member in Cambridge, UK; accused of child sexual abuse after his twin brother Martyn Conway was convicted of child sexual abuse; in both cases, the victim was the same underage boy
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Martyn Conway
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- LDS positions: Unknown position,
- LDS mission:
no
- Victims: 1 victim,
- Criminal: Convicted, Plea agreement, Pleaded guilty,
- Civil: No civil case,
- Martyn Conway was a Mormon church member in England; pleaded guilty of child sexual abuse; twin brother of John Patrick Conway, who also perpetrated child sexual abuse against the same victim
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Kevin G Sykes
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Born: 1967
- LDS positions: Youth leader,
- LDS mission:
unknown
- Victims: 1 victim,
- Criminal: Convicted, Plea agreement, Pleaded guilty, Prison,
- Civil: No civil case,
- Kevin Sykes was an LDS church youth leader in Utah; arrested for possessing child pornography; later arrested for forcible sodomy, human trafficking, sexual abuse of a minor, child abuse and obstructing justice; pleaded guilty in February 2023 to four counts of felony child sexual abuse; in November 2023, was sentenced to 15 years to life in prison in Utah
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Brandon Scott Cordero
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- LDS positions: Unknown position,
- LDS mission:
unknown
- Victims: 1 victim,
- Criminal: Unknown result,
- Civil: No civil case,
- Brandon Cordero was a Mormon church member in Utah; accused of sexual abuse
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Alfred Francis Cote
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Born: 1958
- LDS positions: Scout leader,
- LDS mission:
unknown
- Victims: 4 victims, Multiple victims,
- Crime scenes: Scout activity,
- Alleged coverup
- Criminal: Convicted,
- Alfred Cote was a Mormon church member and Boy scout leader in New Hampshire and Nauvoo, Illinois; convicted in the 1980s and in 2020 of child sexual abuse
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John Lee Cox
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- LDS positions: Unknown position,
- LDS mission:
no
- Victims: 1 victim,
- Criminal: Convicted,
- Civil: No civil case,
- John Cox was a Mormon church member in Clackamas County, Oregon; convicted of child sexual abuse
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Gordon Terrence Crawford
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- LDS positions: Unknown position,
- LDS mission:
no
- Victims: Unknown number of victims,
- Criminal: Unknown result,
- Civil: No civil case,
- Gordon Crawford was an LDS church member in Australia; accused of sexual abuse
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Clark Elwood Crookston
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Born: 1949
- LDS positions: Bishop, High priest, Missionary, Stake high council,
- LDS mission:
Germany - West German Mission 1968-1970
- Victims: 3 victims, Multiple victims,
- Alleged coverup
- Criminal: Convicted, Plea agreement, Pleaded guilty, Prison,
- Clark Crookston was a former Mormon bishop, dentist and college professor in Orem, Utah; accused of nearly 60 years of sex abuse of multiple children; pleaded guilty to attempted aggravated child sexual abuse; sentenced in 2022 to up to 35 years in prison
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John Gardner Cummings
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- LDS positions: Unknown position,
- LDS mission:
no
- Victims: 2 victims, Multiple victims,
- Criminal: Unknown result,
- Civil: No civil case,
- John Cummings was an LDS church member in Utah; accused of sexual abuse
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Daniel Cupyrna
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- LDS positions: Other leader, Stake clerk,
- LDS mission:
unknown
- Victims: Multiple victims, Unknown number of victims,
- Crime scenes: Online,
- Criminal: Admitted guilt, Convicted,
- Civil: No civil case,
- Daniel Cupyrna was a Mormon assistant stake clerk and stake technology specialist in Middlesbrough Ward, Billingham Stake, UK; accused of possession of child sexual abuse material; admitted to wrongdoing; convicted
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Kevin F Curlew
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- LDS positions: Other leader,
- LDS mission:
no
- Victims: 1 victim,
- Crime scenes: LDS building,
- Alleged coverup
- Criminal: Convicted, Prison,
- Civil: Judgment for plaintiff, Lawsuit v. LDS church,
- Kevin Curlew was an LDS church member in Methuen, Massachusetts; accused of sexually abusing a child in an LDS chapel; convicted and sentenced to prison; in 2008, a victim's mother filed a civil lawsuit against the the Mormon church, claiming the church allowed the accused to babysit children despite his prior convictions for child sexual abuse, and that LDS leaders failed to report her child's abuse to police
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Franklyn Richard Curtis
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Born: 1903
Died: 1995 - LDS positions: High priest, Sunday school,
- LDS mission:
no
- Victims: 10 or more victims, Multiple victims,
- Alleged coverup
- Criminal: Convicted,
- Civil: Lawsuit v. LDS church, Settlement,
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LDS church payment: $3,000,000
- Franklyn Curtis was a Mormon church member in Pennsylvania and Oregon; excommunicated in 1983 in Pennsylvania for sex abuse; rebaptized in 1984; molested five boys in Oregon; local LDS bishop knew but didn't report to police; convicted in 1995 in Oregon of sexual abuse; died in 1995
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Luke Elbert Dalton
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Born: 1941
- LDS positions: Scout leader,
- LDS mission:
no
- Victims: 10 or more victims, Multiple victims,
- Criminal: Convicted, Prison,
- Civil: No civil case,
- Luke Dalton was a Mormon church member; admitted to sexually abusing dozens of boys over decades in Ohio, Montana and Utah; arrested in 1997 in Utah for sexually abusing his only son; convicted and sentenced to prison; served 3.5 years in prison
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Scott Alan Darrington
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Born: 1967
- LDS positions: Bishop,
- LDS mission:
unknown
- Victims: Multiple victims, Unknown number of victims,
- Criminal: Convicted, Prison,
- Civil: No civil case,
- Scott Darrington was a former LDS bishop and assistant school principal in Fallon, Nevada; convicted of possession of child pornography, spent a year in prison
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Michael Davies
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- LDS positions: Unknown position,
- LDS mission:
no
- Victims: 2 victims, Multiple victims,
- Criminal: Convicted, Plea agreement, Pleaded guilty,
- Civil: No civil case,
- Michael Davies was a Mormon church member in Wales; pleaded guilty to child sexual abuse
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Michael Adam Davis
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Born: 1985
- LDS positions: Elders quorum, Other leader,
- LDS mission:
United States -
- Victims: 2 victims, Multiple victims,
- Alleged coverup
- Criminal: Convicted, Plea agreement, Pleaded guilty, Prison,
- Michael Davis was an LDS church member in Utah and later an elders quorum president in Minnesota; pleaded guilty in 2003 in Utah to misdemeanor lewdness involving a child; pleaded guilty in Utah in 2006 to felony forcible sexual abuse; arrested in 2019 in Minnesota; sentenced in 2022 to 30 years in prison for sexual abuse of a juvenile under his care; in March 2024, appealed his 2022 Minnesota conviction
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George S Davis
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- LDS mission:
unknown
- Victims: 2 victims, Multiple victims,
- Crime scenes: LDS building,
- Alleged coverup
- Criminal: Convicted, Jury trial, Prison, Probation,
- Civil: No civil case,
- George Davis was an LDS church member in Rhode Island; accused of sexual abuse that allegedly took place in an LDS chapel; found guilty in a jury trial; sentenced to 10 to 25 years in prison and 15 years probation
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Thomas Eugene Dawkins
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- LDS positions: Sunday school,
- LDS mission:
unknown
- Victims: 1 victim,
- Crime scenes: LDS activity,
- Criminal: Convicted, Overturned/reversed,
- Thomas Dawkins was an LDS church member in Columbia, South Carolina; accused of sexual abuse; convicted in 1986; the conviction was later overturned
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Prescott Louis De Jean
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Born: 1955
- LDS positions: Scout leader, Youth leader,
- LDS mission:
unknown
- Victims: 1 victim,
- Alleged coverup
- Criminal: Convicted, Prison, Probation, Registered sex offender, Violated parole/probation,
- Prescott De Jean was a Mormon church member and scout leader in Texas; accused of sexual abuse; convicted between 1991 and 1997 of indecency with a child by contact; victim was 6 years old at the time of the abuse; convicted in 2013 of third degree felony failure to comply with sex offender registration requirements; as of March 2024, lives in Port Lavaca, Texas as a registered sex offender
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Broch Clyde DeGraff
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Born: 1985
- LDS positions: Missionary,
- LDS mission:
Costa Rica - Costa Rica San Jose 2004-2006
- Victims: 2 victims, Multiple victims,
- Crime scenes: Perpetrator's home, Perpetrator's workplace,
- Criminal: Convicted, Plea agreement, Pleaded guilty, Prison,
- Civil: No civil case,
- Broch DeGraff was an LDS church member and private school teacher at Liahona Preparatory Academy in Pleasant Grove, Utah; pleaded guilty to child sexual abuse charges; sentenced in 2013 to up to 20 years in prison
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James Edrick Denos
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Born: 1929
Died: 2017 - LDS positions: Bishop, Missionary, Stake high council, Temple worker, Ward clerk,
- LDS mission:
Netherlands - Holland 1947-1950
- Victims: 10 or more victims, Multiple victims,
- Alleged coverup
- Criminal: Convicted, Prison,
- Civil: No civil case,
- James Denos was a former LDS bishop and junior high school teacher in Utah; previously lived and served as a Mormon bishop in California; sentenced in 2002 to a minimum of 20 years in a Utah state prison for sexually abusing four minor girls living in Utah; allegedly began molesting kids as early as 1950
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Larry Deutsch
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Born: 1966
- LDS positions: Bishop, Scout leader, Sunday school, Temple worker, Youth leader,
- LDS mission:
unknown
- Victims: 1 victim,
- Crime scenes: LDS building, Online,
- Alleged coverup
- Criminal: Convicted, Pleaded guilty, Prison, Probation,
- Civil: Lawsuit v. LDS church, Ongoing,
- Larry Deutsch was a Mormon bishop in Missouri; arrested in 2020 and charged with possession of child pornography (child sexual abuse material, or CSAM) and accused of luring an underage teenager from Arizona to Missouri; pleaded guilty; sentenced in 2021 to 12 years in federal prison plus a lifetime of supervised release; in 2024, the victim filed a civil lawsuit against the LDS church
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Richard Lloyd Dilley
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Born: 1959
- LDS positions: Scout leader, Sunday school,
- LDS mission:
no
- Victims: 3 victims, Multiple victims,
- Crime scenes: Perpetrator's home, Scout activity,
- Criminal: Admitted guilt, Convicted, Plea agreement, Pleaded guilty, Prison,
- Civil: No civil case,
- Richard Dilley was an LDS church member and scout leader in Burien, near Seattle, Washington; dishonorably discharged from the Navy in 1983 after admitting to abusing boys in a Scouting program in Athens, Greece; pleaded guilty in 1990 to one count of third degree child rape and five counts of child molestation for "repeated" offenses over two years of the scouts in his LDS troop; sentenced to 9 years in prison
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Spencer Remde Dixon
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Born: 1964
- LDS positions: Bishop,
- LDS mission:
unknown
- Victims: 1 victim,
- Alleged coverup
- Criminal: Acquitted, Found not guilty, Jury trial,
- Civil: No civil case,
- Spencer Dixon was a Mormon bishop in Salt Lake City, Utah; accused in 2002 of touching a 13-year-old girl inappropriately inside the LDS chapel of the Monument Park 7th Ward; acquitted in a jury trial
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Alan Craig Dunlap
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- LDS positions: Unknown position,
- LDS mission:
no
- Victims: 1 victim,
- Criminal: Convicted,
- Alan Dunlap was a Mormon church member in Fresno, California; pleaded guilty to child sexual abuse
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Alan Keith Dunn
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Born: 1941
- LDS positions: Scout leader,
- LDS mission:
unknown
- Victims: 1 victim,
- Crime scenes: Recreational trip/outing, Scout activity,
- Alleged coverup
- Criminal: Admitted guilt, Unknown result,
- Civil: No civil case,
- Alan Dunn was a Mormon church member and scout leader in Venice, California (Los Angeles); accused in 1978 of child sexual abuse; confessed to the police
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Cesar Duran
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Born: 1982
- LDS positions: Bishopric counselor,
- LDS mission:
no
- Victims: 1 victim,
- Crime scenes: LDS building,
- Alleged coverup
- Criminal: Unknown result,
- Cesar Duran was a Mormon bishopric counselor in a Spanish-speaking LDS ward in Orem, Utah (Geneva Height Stake); arrested for alleged sexual abuse of a 13-year-old girl in his ward; the alleged abuse took place inside an LDS church building
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Larry Van Dyke
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- LDS positions: Scout leader,
- LDS mission:
no
- Victims: Unknown number of victims,
- Criminal: Unknown result,
- Larry Dyke was a Mormon church member; accused of sexual abuse
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Timur Van Dykes
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- LDS positions: Scout leader,
- LDS mission:
no
- Victims: 10 or more victims, Multiple victims,
- Alleged coverup
- Criminal: Convicted, Jail, Probation,
- Civil: Lawsuit v. LDS church, Settlement,
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LDS church payment: $350,000
- Timur Dykes was a Mormon church member and scout leader in Portland, Oregon; accused of sexual abuse; convicted multiple times; in 1987, three plaintiffs sued the Mormon church and the Boy Scouts of America; in about 2009, the Mormon church paid $350,000 to a victim to settle its portion of a civil lawsuit
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Michael Cunningham
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Born: 1947
- LDS positions: Missionary, Ward clerk, Youth leader,
- LDS mission:
unknown
- Alleged coverup
- Criminal: Convicted, Prison, Registered sex offender,
- Michael Cunningham was a Mormon church member in England; accused of sexual abuse; a judge sentenced Cunningham to ten years imprisonment and told him that he must register as a sex offender for the rest of his life
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Oliver Dean Eames
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Born: 1948
Died: 2005 - LDS positions: Other leader, Scout leader, Tabernacle Choir,
- LDS mission:
no
- Victims: 10 or more victims, Multiple victims,
- Crime scenes: Unknown crime scene,
- Criminal: Convicted, Plea agreement, Pleaded guilty,
- Civil: No civil case,
- Oliver Eames was an LDS church member, sixth grade teacher and Mormon Tabernacle Choir singer in Farmington, Utah; admitted to trying to fondle several children he had been hired to tutor; pleaded guilty in 1988 to two felony counts of attempted aggravated sexual abuse of a child; local police had documented 52 alleged child sexual abuse incidents involving him
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Todd Mitchell Edwards
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Born: 1964
- LDS positions: Bishop, Youth leader,
- LDS mission:
unknown
- Victims: 3 victims, Multiple victims,
- Crime scenes: Perpetrator's home, Vehicle,
- Alleged coverup
- Criminal: Convicted, Plea agreement, Pleaded guilty, Prison, Registered sex offender,
- Civil: Lawsuit v. LDS church, Ongoing,
- Todd Edwards was a Mormon bishop in Menifee, Riverside County, California; in 2013, sentenced to three years in prison for sexual abuse of one teenage girl in 2006 and another in 2012; was bishop at the time of the 2012 abuse; in 2024, two victims sued the LDS church in separate lawsuits; one said a stake president and LDS law firm Kirton McConkie hindered police
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