4,277 reports of sex crimes allegedly perpetrated by Latter-day Saints (statistics »). Sources include court documents, public records, news reports, academic journals, and survivors or witnesses of alleged abuse.
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- Zachery Denison (1992 – ) was a Mormon church member and former teacher at Mt. Nebo Jr. High School; convicted of raping a 14-year-old basketball student of his from Feb. 2010 - August 2020; convicted in May 2021; is a registered sex offender living in Eagle Mountain, Utah as of August 2026
Convicted:
2021, 
Criminal case(s): Convicted, 
Alleged church actions: unknown, - View report »
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- James Denos (1929 – 2017) was a former LDS bishop and junior high school teacher in Utah; previously lived and served as a Mormon bishop in 1970 in Westminster, Orange County, 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
Alleged failure to report- Convicted:
2002,
Positions: Bishop, Missionary, Stake high council, Temple worker, Ward clerk, - Criminal case(s): Convicted, Prison,
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"In public, my father was always so perfect, and he told us he was perfect. [...] He went to church every Sunday, we had family home evening and we read the Scriptures. People put him on a pedestal. But he was molesting children … right under our noses." -
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- Larry Deutsch (1966 – ) 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
- Alleged failure to report
- Convicted:
2021,
- Positions: Bishop, Scout leader, Sunday school, Temple worker, Youth leader,
- Criminal case(s): Convicted, Pleaded guilty, Prison, Probation,
- Civil case(s): Lawsuit v. LDS church, Ongoing,
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- Gregory Dew (1961 – ) was a former Mormon bishop, chiropractor and gymnastics teacher in Ohio; accused of sexually abusing multiple children; convicted and sentenced to prison in 2008; as of November 2022, serving prison time in Ohio for sexually abusing teenage girls
- Convicted:
2008,
- Positions: Bishop,
- Criminal case(s): Convicted, Prison,
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- Ryan Didier was an LDS church member in Orem, Utah; accused of sexual abuse
- Positions: Unknown position,
- Criminal case(s): Unknown result,
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- Richard Dilley (1959 – ) 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
- Positions: Scout leader, Sunday school,
- Criminal case(s): Admitted guilt, Convicted, Plea deal, Pleaded guilty, Prison,
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- Adam Dimond (1987 – ) was an LDS church member and dancer in Farmington, Utah; pleaded guilty in 2020 to a second-degree felony charge of enticing a minor by Internet or text; sentenced to 40 days in jail and 4 years of probation
- Convicted:
2020,
- Positions: Missionary,
- Criminal case(s): Convicted, Jail, Plea deal, Pleaded guilty, Probation,
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- Adam Dimond (1987 – ) was a Mormon church member and returned missionary in Farmington, Utah; on 29 November 2018 he was arrested in Layton, Davis County, and charged with enticing a minor, a second-degree felony; pleaded guilty January 14, 2020; is a registered sex offender living in Lehi, Utah as of September 2026
- Alleged failure to report
- Positions: Missionary,
- Criminal case(s): Convicted, Found guilty, Plea deal, Pleaded guilty, Registered sex offender,
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- Robert Dindinger (1970 – ) was an LDS church member, psychologist and pornography addiction book author in Orem, Utah; was an LDS missionary in Scotland 1995-97; worked at Brigham Young University; charged in 2025 with convincing child patients to undress so he could secretly record them; in 2018, his license was placed on probation after he "inappropriately touched" a 17-year-old during "masturbation satiation therapy"
- Convicted:
2025,
- Positions: BYU, Missionary,
- Criminal case(s): Ongoing,
- Alleged church actions: Unknown church action,
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"You knew what you were doing and you did it anyway. And you caused harm." -
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- Spencer Dixon (1964 – ) 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
- Positions: Bishop,
- Criminal case(s): Acquitted, Found not guilty, Jury trial,
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- Richard Doan (1963 – ) was a Mormon church member in Douglasville, Georgia; convicted of sexual abuse
- Positions: Youth leader,
- Criminal case(s): Convicted, Registered sex offender, Unknown result,
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- John Doe (1945 – ) was a Mormon church member in Vernon, Utah; accused of sexual abuse; in 2012, pled guilty to three charges of sexual abuse of a child, a second-degree felony; was sentenced to six months in jail and three years of probation
- Alleged failure to report
- Convicted:
2012,
- Positions: Unknown position,
- Criminal case(s): Convicted, Jail, Plea deal, Pleaded guilty, Probation,
- Alleged church actions: Excommunicated, Ward official accused of failure to report,
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- John Doe was a Mormon missionary in Ireland; accused of sexual abuse
- Alleged failure to report
- Positions: Missionary,
- Criminal case(s): Unknown result,
- Civil case(s): Lawsuit v. LDS church, Unknown result,
- Alleged church actions: Ward official accused of failure to report, Ward official accused of pressuring victim not to seek accountability,
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- John Doe was a Mormon church member in Idaho; accused of sexual abuse
- Criminal case(s): Unknown result,
- Civil case(s): Lawsuit v. LDS church, Unknown result,
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- John Doe was a Mormon church member in Idaho; accused of sexual abuse
- Criminal case(s): Unknown result,
- Civil case(s): Lawsuit v. LDS church, Ongoing,
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- John Doe was an LDS church member in New Mexico; accused of sexual abuse
- Criminal case(s): Unknown result,
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- John Doe was a Mormon church member; accused of sexual abuse
- Alleged failure to report
- Criminal case(s): Unknown result,
- Civil case(s): Lawsuit v. LDS church, Unknown result,
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- John Doe was an LDS church member in Utah; accused of sexual abuse
- Alleged failure to report
- Criminal case(s): Unknown result,
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- John Doe was a Mormon church member in Tacoma, Washington; allegedly sexually abused a preschooler in his ward in the 1980s; the LDS church settled with the abuse survivor for $1.1 million in 2023
- Alleged failure to report
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Church paid $1,100,000
- Positions: Unknown position,
- Criminal case(s): Never charged, Not convicted,
- Civil case(s): Lawsuit v. LDS church, Settlement,
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- John Doe (1955 – ) was a Mormon church member in Lake Elsinore, California; arrested in 1997; pleaded guilty to committing lewd acts with a child under age 14; spent three years in state prison; in December 2022, the LDS church paid $995,000 to settle its part of a related civil lawsuit wherein a jury awarded the victim $2.28 billion
- Alleged failure to report
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Church paid $995,000
- Positions: Unknown position,
- Criminal case(s): Convicted, Plea deal, Pleaded guilty, Prison, Released,
- Civil case(s): Lawsuit v. LDS church, Settlement,
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- John Doe (1961 – ) was an LDS church member and former Mormon bishop in Alabama, Alaska and Texas; in 2022 or 2023, confessed to child sexual abuse to his LDS bishop and stake president in Texas, according to a person familiar with the case; they reported him to local police in 2023; in 2024, a plaintiff filed a civil lawsuit against him; Doe and the church settled with the victim in 2025
- Alleged failure to report
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Church paid $unknown
- Positions: Bishop,
- Criminal case(s): Admitted guilt, Ongoing, Police investigation, Unknown result,
- Civil case(s): Settlement,
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- John Doe (1952 – ) was an LDS church member in Adelaide, Australia; sentenced in 2021 to 10 years in prison for child sexual abuse
- Convicted:
2021,
- Positions: Unknown position,
- Criminal case(s): Convicted, Prison,
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- John Doe was an LDS church member in Australia; accused of sexual abuse; convicted; in 2018, sentenced to nearly 20 years in prison
- Convicted:
2018,
- Criminal case(s): Convicted, Prison,
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- John Doe was an LDS stake mission president; accused by Mormon leader Vaughn Featherstone in 1975 of child sexual abuse of "many, many Aaronic Priesthood boys" in Doe's stake
- Alleged failure to report
- Positions: Other leader,
- Criminal case(s): Never charged, Not convicted, Unknown result,
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- John Doe was an LDS church member in Queensland, Australia; accused of sexual abuse
- Alleged failure to report
- Positions: Other leader,
- Criminal case(s): Never charged, Not convicted,
- Civil case(s): Lawsuit v. LDS church,
- Alleged church actions: Excommunicated, Ward official accused of failure to report,
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- Jane Doe was an LDS church member in Australia; accused of sexual abuse
- Positions: Sunday school,
- Criminal case(s): Convicted, Jail, Plea deal, Pleaded guilty,
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- John Doe was a Mormon church member in Denmark; accused of sexual abuse
- Criminal case(s): Unknown result,
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- Doe was a Mormon church member; accused of sexual abuse in a 2024 California lawsuit against the Mormon church
- Criminal case(s): Unknown result,
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- John Doe was a Mormon church member; accused of sexual abuse in a 2024 California lawsuit against the Mormon church
- Criminal case(s): Unknown result,
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- John Doe was a Mormon church member; accused of sexual abuse
- Alleged failure to report
- Criminal case(s): Never charged, Not convicted,
- Civil case(s): Lawsuit v. LDS church, Ongoing,
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- UNKNOWN Doe was a Mormon church member; accused of sexual abuse
- Alleged failure to report
- Criminal case(s): Never charged, Not convicted,
- Civil case(s): Lawsuit v. LDS church, Ongoing,
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- John Doe was a Mormon church member; accused of sexual abuse
- Alleged failure to report
- Criminal case(s): Never charged, Not convicted,
- Civil case(s): Lawsuit v. LDS church, Ongoing,
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- John Doe was a Mormon church member and Cub/Boy Scout leader in the United States; accused of child sexual abuse by a claimant in the Boy Scouts of America (BSA) bankruptcy case filed in February 2020
- Positions: Scout leader,
- Criminal case(s): Unknown result,
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- John Doe was a Mormon church member and Cub/Boy Scout leader in the United States; accused of child sexual abuse by a claimant in the Boy Scouts of America (BSA) bankruptcy case filed in February 2020
- Positions: Scout leader,
- Criminal case(s): Unknown result,
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- John Doe was a Mormon church member and Cub/Boy Scout leader in the United States; accused of child sexual abuse by a claimant in the Boy Scouts of America (BSA) bankruptcy case filed in February 2020
- Positions: Scout leader,
- Criminal case(s): Unknown result,
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- John Doe was a Mormon church member and Cub/Boy Scout leader in the United States; accused of child sexual abuse by a claimant in the Boy Scouts of America (BSA) bankruptcy case filed in February 2020
- Positions: Scout leader,
- Criminal case(s): Unknown result,
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- John Doe was a Mormon church member and Cub/Boy Scout leader in the United States; accused of child sexual abuse by a claimant in the Boy Scouts of America (BSA) bankruptcy case filed in February 2020
- Positions: Scout leader,
- Criminal case(s): Unknown result,
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- John Doe was a Mormon church member and Cub/Boy Scout leader in the United States; accused of child sexual abuse by a claimant in the Boy Scouts of America (BSA) bankruptcy case filed in February 2020
- Positions: Scout leader,
- Criminal case(s): Unknown result,
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- John Doe was a Mormon church member and Cub/Boy Scout leader in the United States; accused of child sexual abuse by a claimant in the Boy Scouts of America (BSA) bankruptcy case filed in February 2020
- Positions: Scout leader,
- Criminal case(s): Unknown result,
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- John Doe was a Mormon church member and Cub/Boy Scout leader in the United States; accused of child sexual abuse by a claimant in the Boy Scouts of America (BSA) bankruptcy case filed in February 2020
- Positions: Scout leader,
- Criminal case(s): Unknown result,
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- John Doe was a Mormon church member and Cub/Boy Scout leader in the United States; accused of child sexual abuse by a claimant in the Boy Scouts of America (BSA) bankruptcy case filed in February 2020
- Positions: Scout leader,
- Criminal case(s): Unknown result,
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- John Doe was a Mormon church member and Cub/Boy Scout leader in the United States; accused of child sexual abuse by a claimant in the Boy Scouts of America (BSA) bankruptcy case filed in February 2020
- Positions: Scout leader,
- Criminal case(s): Unknown result,
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- John Doe was a Mormon church member and Cub/Boy Scout leader in the United States; accused of child sexual abuse by a claimant in the Boy Scouts of America (BSA) bankruptcy case filed in February 2020
- Positions: Scout leader,
- Criminal case(s): Unknown result,
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- John Doe was a Mormon church member and Cub/Boy Scout leader in the United States; accused of child sexual abuse by a claimant in the Boy Scouts of America (BSA) bankruptcy case filed in February 2020
- Positions: Scout leader,
- Criminal case(s): Unknown result,
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- John Doe was a Mormon church member and Cub/Boy Scout leader in the United States; accused of child sexual abuse by a claimant in the Boy Scouts of America (BSA) bankruptcy case filed in February 2020
- Positions: Scout leader,
- Criminal case(s): Unknown result,
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- John Doe was a Mormon church member and Cub/Boy Scout leader in the United States; accused of child sexual abuse by a claimant in the Boy Scouts of America (BSA) bankruptcy case filed in February 2020
- Positions: Scout leader,
- Criminal case(s): Unknown result,
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- John Doe was a Mormon church member and Cub/Boy Scout leader in the United States; accused of child sexual abuse by a claimant in the Boy Scouts of America (BSA) bankruptcy case filed in February 2020
- Positions: Scout leader,
- Criminal case(s): Unknown result,
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- John Doe was a Mormon church member and Cub/Boy Scout leader in the United States; accused of child sexual abuse by a claimant in the Boy Scouts of America (BSA) bankruptcy case filed in February 2020
- Positions: Scout leader,
- Criminal case(s): Unknown result,
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- John Doe was a Mormon church member and Cub/Boy Scout leader in the United States; accused of child sexual abuse by a claimant in the Boy Scouts of America (BSA) bankruptcy case filed in February 2020
- Positions: Scout leader,
- Criminal case(s): Unknown result,
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- John Doe was a Mormon church member and Cub/Boy Scout leader in the United States; accused of child sexual abuse by a claimant in the Boy Scouts of America (BSA) bankruptcy case filed in February 2020
- Positions: Scout leader,
- Criminal case(s): Unknown result,
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