All Case Videos

Here are all of our LDS sexual abuse case videos.

• Todd Alan Tanner was a Mormon church member in the Cortez/Durango, Colorado area and St, George, Utah; co-founder of Utah-based dirty soda business Swig Drinks in approximately 2010; charged in 2010 in Colorado with crimes related to child sexual abuse; convicted in 2011 and sentenced to 48 months probation; allegedly was a Sunday School teacher in St. George, Utah after his conviction
  • How a Swig of Dirty Soda Turned into a Thriving Business-[redacted] Tanner
  • How Mormon Doctrine Created Swig Soda
  • The Shocking Truth About Swig’s Co Founder | What They Never Told You...
• Dallin Russell Griffeth was a former Mormon missionary (Spanish-speaking mission); arrested in July 2025, accused of child sexual abuse; criminal charges were dropped in October 2025
  • Florida adoptive family arrested, 9 children removed after alleged abuse
• Brian Matthew Griffeth was a Mormon ward clerk in the Lake City, Florida area; accused of sexual abuse; criminal charges were dropped in October 2025
  • Florida adoptive family arrested, 9 children removed after alleged abuse
• Candon Dean Dahle was a Mormon BYU baseball pitcher in Utah; in 2025, charged in two Idaho counties with crimes related to child sexual abuse; pleaded guilty in Fremont County in May 2025; sentenced to 180 days in jail for sexually assaulting a young girl for five years; Floodlit.org is seeking court documents
  • Former BYU baseball starter sentenced for sexually assaulting young girl for 5 years
• Ruth Zurcher Worthen was a Mormon church member in Hyde Park, Cache County, Utah; accused of child sexual abuse by one adult in a 2019 civil lawsuit and in 2023 by four adults (one of whom was the 2019 plaintiff); arrested and charged in June 2024 with numerous felonies related to child sexual abuse; died in 2025
  • Cache County grandma arrested, accused of sexually abusing children over 30 years
• Derrick Evan Pickering was a Mormon church member and nurse practitioner in Utah; accused in 2024 by multiple former patients in a civil lawsuit of touching them in sexually inappropriate ways
  • Former students sue, alleging UVU didn’t protect them from medical worker accused of sexual assault
• David William Bennett was an LDS church member and scout leader in California and Korea; convicted in 1987 in California of child sexual abuse; moved to Korea; was assigned to be an LDS young men's president and scoutmaster; was accused of molesting several boys; disappeared in 1991; FLOODLIT is attempting to locate him
  • Why I Resigned as a Mormon Bishop - Nick and Amanda Jones | Ep. 1861
• Stephen John Coleman was an LDS church member and analyst in the Utah state Office of Planning and Budget; accused of sexual abuse in 2011; convicted and sentenced to prison; as of 2016, was serving two sentences of 15 years to life in prison in Utah
  • Prevent Child Abuse Utah
• John Earl Goodrich was a former Mormon bishop and dentist in Idaho; accused of child sexual abuse and of having nonconsensual sex with a woman he admitting to drugging; given a withheld judgement; in December 2023, the AP reported that the Mormon church had offered $300,000 to a victim and her mother to not use her story to sue the church, and to keep the NDA secret; arrested in Virginia in March 2024
  • Mormon Church Offered Sexual Abuse Victim $300,000 to Stay Silent After Her Father Confessed: AP
• Timothy Blain Ballard was a Mormon anti-sex trafficking activist; claimed to be friends with LDS apostle Russell Ballard (no relation); accused in 2023 of sexual misconduct by at least eight women and a couple; in June 2024, one civil case was dismissed; in July 2024, a lawsuit said his DNA was found on a victim’s skirt
  • Packer OUR Report 31—Sex Allegations
• Gerald Howard Elison was an LDS church member and junior high school drama teacher in Orem, Utah; accused in 2014 in a civil lawsuit of sexually abusing a boy student in the early 1980s; died in 2019
  • Man confronts pedophile in Mormon church
  • What happened AFTER man confronted pedophile in Mormon church
• David Evans Webb was an LDS church member and oral surgeon in Vacaville, California; accused of sexual abuse of multiple patients in 2021 and again in 2022; gave up his license to practice in 2023; got a license to practice dentistry in Idaho; as of March 2024, a criminal case and several civil cases in California are ongoing
  • Vacaville oral surgeon charged in connection to 4 incidents of alleged sex assault
• Roselle Anderson Stevenson was an LDS church member in Utah; accused in August 2023 of child sexual abuse; ex-wife of ritualistic abuse suspect David Hamblin; charge dismissed with prejudice in May 2025
  • Ex-wife of Utah former therapist accused of ‘ritualistic child sexual abuse’ arrested
• Buckland Lee Darrell was a former LDS Primary teacher in Redmond, Washington; accused of molesting young boys in sacrament meeting and at their homes; charged with first-degree felony child molestation in 2022-23 (5 victims); admitted to sexually abusing around 6 to 8 boys; pleaded guilty; sentenced in 2024 to at least 8 years in prison; faced two additional counts in March 2025 after two more victims came forward
  • Police arrest man accused of child molestation in Redmond, more victims suspected
• Floyd C Jennings was a former Mormon bishop and school bus driver in Utah; was a senior missionary in Nauvoo, Illinois and Fort Cove, Utah; arrested in 2017 for soliciting sex from two girls he thought were 13 years old; convicted in 2019; died in 2025
  • Floyd Jennings V4CR Bust Footage 1
  • Floyd Jennings Phone Call 1
  • Floyd Jennings Phone Call 2
  • Floyd Jennings Phone Calls 3 and 4
• Mark Kevin Anderson was a Mormon church branch president and dentist in Woodland, California; accused by 27 former female patients of touching them inappropriately in office visits; found guilty in 2009 of 11 felony counts and one misdemeanor count of sexual battery for sexual abuse of several of his female patients; sentenced to six years in prison; required to register for life as a sex offender
  • Dentist Apologizes To Victim In Call
• Calvin James McGee was an LDS missionary in Virginia in 2022; accused of soliciting sexually explicit pictures and video from a person he believed to be an 11-year-old girl, and inviting her to meet in person; arrested in Boise, Idaho in July 2023 and accused of rape of a minor; pleaded guilty to two charges related to child sexual abuse; sentenced in May 2024 to three to 25 years in prison
  • Mormon Missionary Pred who lnvited 11 Yaer OId GirI over Caught n front of friend (Williamsburg Va)
• Robert Preston Wily was an Mormon church member in Utah; in 2004, pleaded guilty to four class A misdemeanor counts of sexual battery; arrested in 2020 for allegedly possessing several child exploitation images; convicted of one felony count in 2022; sentenced to 365 days in jail and 48 months probation
  • Buying vs Building Technology: Which is Right for You?
• Byron Dean Wiscombe was an LDS bishopric counselor and Ammon, Idaho city councilman; signed a plea agreement indicating he would admit to committing lewd conduct with a minor; sentenced to prison in 2023
  • Former city councilman makes first court appearance on sexual assault allegations
  • Ammon man arrested for lewd conduct with minor
• David Brian Farley was a former doctor in West Linn, Oregon; accused of sexually abusing more than 200 patients over a span of many years, during some of which Farley was an LDS stake high council member; in 2024, the city of West Linn, Oregon released a report about the way its police department investigated Farley; in October 2025, a grand jury indicted him on 11 felony sexual assault charges
  • KGW (NBC) Portland, Oregon - Dr David Farley, a former West Linn doctor, is accused of abuse. - 2020-12-09
  • #MeToo at the doctor's office: Investigation finds sexual misconduct, flaws in discipline - 2022-04-11
  • David Farley accused of abuse by patients; No indictment - 2022-09-22
  • West Linn women speak out about sexual abuse allegations involving former doctor - 2022-09-23
• Maynard Scott McFarland was an LDS church member in California and Minnesota; sentenced in 2005 to 32 years in prison for sexually abusing his daughter for many years; released from prison in 2020; as of 2024, lives in Chula Vista, California as a registered sex offender
  • Lawsuit: Mormon Church leaders in San Diego turned a blind eye to a report of molestation
  • Lawsuit: Mormon Church leaders in San Diego turned a blind eye to a report of an elder molesting his
• Phillip Brandon Stokes was a Mormon church member in Utah; composed music for multiple videos posted to official LDS church websites and social media accounts; in 2022, sentenced in Utah to two terms of 25 years to life in prison for rape of a child and sodomy on a child, first-degree felonies
  • Reyna Aburto’s Story—Part 1: Heartbreak and Hope
• Gary Lee Bell was an LDS church member and former prosecutor in Utah; pleaded guilty in December 2022 to four second degree felony charges related to child sexual abuse; sentenced in January 2023 to one to 15 years in prison; in June 2023, was convicted of 15 counts of 2nd degree felony sexual exploitation of a minor and two counts of class B misdemeanor voyeurism; no additional prison time was added
  • 6pm Hit - Former prosecutor re arrested on alleged sex crimes
  • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o-cCMz4mogI
    Former Utah child protection official arrested on child pornography charges
  • https://youtu.be/_jRUKIKfcoY
    Former child protection official rearrested after allegedly producing child pornography
• Kevin G 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
  • Young man speaks out against church leader accused of sexual abuse
• Dylan Kevin Whiting was an LDS bishop in Nampa, Idaho; was removed from his position in 2021 after child sexual abuse allegations surfaced; was charged with four sex crimes; pleaded guilty to one felony count; sentenced in 2022; FLOODLIT is seeking info on the sentence
  • Mormon Stories 1550: Speaking Out When a Mormon Bishop Abuses Children - Kolby & Cami Reddish
  • Mormon Stories 1551: How a Mormon Bishop's Sexual Abuse Affected our Faith - Kolby & Cami Reddish
• Daniel Luke Taylor was an LDS church member and seminary teacher in New Zealand; found guilty in 2013 of sexual abuse of multiple underage boys; local Mormon leaders allegedly failed to report Taylor's abuse
  • Dramatic adjournment in Kaitaia sex abuse case
• Arthur Gary Bishop was a Mormon boy scout leader in Utah; was excommunicated in the 1970s; later molested multiple children and killed five young boys; was sentenced to death by lethal injection in 1988
  • Arthur Gary Bishop: Child Molester and Serial Killer Documentary
  • Arthur Gary Bishop
• Susan Marie Brock was an LDS church member in Arizona; was sentenced in April 2011 to 13 years in prison for engaging in a three-year-long sexual relationship with a boy, beginning when he was 14 years old; was released in December 2021
  • Did supervisor know wife's secret? - ABC15 Arizona - 2011-01-26
  • Brock sentenced to 13 Years in sex case - ABC15 Arizona - 2011-04-07
  • Sex scandal phone calls and police reports released - ABC15 Arizona - 2011-04-14
• Spencer John Palmer was a Mormon temple endowment ceremony actor, BYU professor, mission president, temple president, LDS church area authority; lived in Utah; posthumously accused of child sexual abuse by his grandson
  • When High-Level Mormon Church Leaders Sexually Abuse: Matt and Stephanie Purcell Pt. 1 - 1520
• Brian Richard Pickett was a Mormon branch president and leader at a youth program picking pineapples in Maui, Hawaii; accused of sexual abuse in a civil lawsuit that also named the LDS church; the suit was dismissed with prejudice after a settlement in 2016
• Michael Jay Pratt was an LDS seminary principal in Utah; arrested in 2009; convicted and sentenced in 2010 for the sexual abuse of a 16-year-old seminary student
  • Seminary teacher accused of sexually assaulting student - YouTube - 2009-07-11
• Keith Robert Vallejo was a Mormon bishop in Utah; accused of sexually abusing and raping two underage girls; in 2017, was found guilty in a jury trial of ten counts of second-degree felony forcible sexual abuse and one count of first-degree felony object rape; sentenced to five years to life in prison
  • Mormon Stories #733: When Religions Praise and Protect Abusers Pt. 1
  • Mormon Stories #734: When Religions Praise and Protect Abusers Pt. 2
• Joseph Layton Bishop was a Mormon church member and president of the Provo, Utah Missionary Training Center (MTC) in the 1980s; allegedly sexually abused multiple sister missionaries; not criminally charged because the statute of limitations had expired (in 1984, the legal deadline in Utah for filing a rape charge was four years); civil lawsuit was dismissed after an agreement by the plaintiff and the LDS church
  • Mormon Stories #885: The Unpunished Sexual Abuses of Former MTC President Joseph L. Bishop Pt. 3 - 2018-03-20
• Kenne Worthen was a Mormon elementary school teacher and BYU-Idaho adjunct professor in Arizona who sexually abused a 12-year-old child; in 2015, pleaded guilty to sexual conduct with a minor and two counts of attempt to commit child molestation; sentenced to 25 years in prison and a lifetime of probation after
  • Phoenix teacher’s arrest alarming schools and neighbors
• Robert Matthews was a Mormon church member and singer in the Mormon Tabernacle Choir; arrested in 2006, after police received evidence that he swam naked with four young boys during a trip in July 2006; he allegedly took pictures of the nude swim and later processed the images on his computer; charged with four counts of sexual exploitation of a minor and lewdness involving a child; convicted
  • Mormon Tabernacle Choir Member, Robert Matthews Arrested
• Michael Adam 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
  • 1595: Mormon Church Defends Minnesota Leader of Sexual Assault - Mormon Stories Podcast - 2022-05-17
• David Harrison Broadbent was a Mormon and OB/GYN doctor in Provo, Utah; in 2022, dozens of women joined a class action lawsuit accusing him of sexual assault; in 2022, a Utah judge dismissed the case; by 2023, nearly 300 victims had come forward; in 2024, was charged with forcible sexual abuse, and the Utah Supreme Court ruled that the lawsuit could proceed; 2025: more charges, 2nd suit, up to nearly 450 alleged victims
  • When High-Level Mormon Church Leaders Sexually Abuse: Matt and Stephanie Purcell Pt. 1 - 1520
• 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
  • St. Charles County man charged with child pornography; police looking for other victims - KMOV St. Louis - 2020-02-21
• Michael Wayne 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
  • Former Mormon bishop accused of luring teenage boy for sex - 2014-01-23
• Dennis Joe Empey was a Mormon church member in Driggs, Idaho and scout leader in Provo, Utah; accused of sexually abusing many children between 1981 and 1990; a stake president and four Mormon bishops allegedly failed to report abuse for years; convicted in 1991 in Utah of child molestation; sentenced to one year in jail and three years probation; charged in 2025 in Idaho with sex crimes
  • Church and the Fourth Estate
• Maurice Wade Harker was an LDS church member and therapist in Utah; accused of psychologically and physically harming sexual abuse victims who came to him as patients; charged in September 2023 with felony aggravated abuse of a vulnerable adult and kidnapping
  • The War Between Remembering and Forgetting with Maurice Harker
  • Utah therapist charged for alleged abusive therapy to cleanse demons
• Vance Paul Hein was an LDS church member and scoutmaster in West Bradford, Pennsylvania; was convicted in 1999 of a misdemeanor for sexually abusing one of his boy scouts; sentenced in 2000 to 15 years of probation; arrested in 2011 for possessing child pornography; sentenced in 2012 to 15 to 30 years in prison; the Mormon church settled a related lawsuit in 2014
  • Former Boy Scout sues Mormon church for sexual abuse - CNN - 2015-03-23
• Paul Douglas Adams was an LDS church member in Arizona; sexually abused two children for several years after confessing to his bishop; arrested and charged; died by suicide in 2017 while in custody awaiting trial; as of October 2025, a lawsuit against the church is ongoing
  • How Mormon church 'help line' hid child sex abuse
• Joseph Smith was the founder of the LDS church (the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, or Mormon church); was publicly accused during his life (1805-1844) of sexual misconduct, including adultery and illegal polygamy; in May 1844, a Hancock County, Illinois grand jury indicted Smith for perjury, fornication and polygamy; died in June 1844
  • Joseph Smith as a Sexual Predator - 2009-06-20
• Marcelo Moreno Pérez was a former Mormon church young men's leader in Argentina; arrested in 2021 for alleged sexual assault of a 14-year-old girl in 2017; sentenced in 2022 to 13.5 years in prison; the Mormon church allegedly paid the victim's parents 4.5 million pesos (approximately $40,000) to keep the abuse secret
  • Córdoba: la Iglesia Mormona pagó $4,5 millones para encubrir una violación
• James Glenn Haskell was a former Mormon bishop and practicing attorney in Vacaville, California; charged with 14 felonies and three misdemeanors for allegedly sexually abusing four children; was an LDS stake high council member when charged; in June 2024, found not guilty of 16 of 17 counts; jurors deadlocked on one count of felony injury upon a child; as of October 2025, civil lawsuit is ongoing
  • Vacaville attorney accused of several sex crimes involving children - FOX 40 News - 2022-05-11
• Bradley Grant Stowell was a Mormon church member and scout leader in Idaho; confessed to sexually abusing 24 boys; pleaded guilty to molesting two boys; sentenced in 1997 to 150 days in prison and 15 years of probation; local LDS church coverup alleged; one of Stowell's victims, Adam Steed, came forward, spurring lawsuits against the Mormon church and the BSA; as of 2024, lived in Herriman, Utah
  • Church and the Fourth Estate
  • 8 Passengers Mormon Therapist Jodi Hildebrandt Destroyed My Life - Adam Paul Steed | Ep. 1809
• Paul Bryant was an HOA president and former Mormon primary teacher in Lehi, Utah; was a branch president during an LDS mission to Argentina in the 1980s; in 2016, pleaded guilty to three first-degree felony counts of attempted aggravated sexual abuse of a child and was sentenced to prison; in 2023, pleaded not guilty to failure to register as sex offender; died by suicide in December 2024
  • Gaping hole in Utah law allows child sex offender to go into private park - KUTV 2 News Salt Lake City - 2023-01-12
• David Lee Hamblin was a Mormon church member and former elders quorum president in Utah; arrested in 2022 and charged with child sexual abuse in three separate cases; investigated along with ex-wife Roselle Stevenson (arrested in 2023) for alleged ritualistic sexual abuse; in 2025, a court dismissed one case with prejudice after "discovery issues;" one case remained as of March 2025
  • Arrest made in Utah Co. ritualistic sex abuse investigation
• Lowell James Robison was a Mormon mission president in the Mexico Leon mission (1995-1998) and stake president of the Provo, Utah Edgemont Stake (2001-2006); accused in 2018 of sexual abuse of multiple people; two months later, died by suicide
  • Mormon Stories #896: Christopher Swallow - Abused by Mission/Stake President Lowell Robison
• Jay William Toombs was an LDS scout leader and private investigator in Benson, Utah; allegedly told his stake president (a Cache County prosecutor) in 1994 that he had molested boys; three LDS bishops and stake president Jerry Toombs (his older brother) allegedly knew of abuse but did not tell police; convicted in 2000 and sentenced to five years to life in prison; released in 2025; lives in Logan, Utah
  • Scoutmaster has more than 50 vict*ms | Somehow up for parole | Utah parole hearings
• Sterling Gray Van Wagenen was a co-founder of Sundance Film Festival and director of some Mormon temple endowment videos; publicly accused of sexual abuse of two children in two separate instances; sentenced to prison in 2019 for child sexual abuse
  • 2018-09-Sterling Van Wagenen-Audio - Mormon Leaks - YouTube - 2019-02-04
  • The LDS Church’s Coverup of Sterling Van Wagenen’s Sexual Abuse Pt. 1 - Mormon Stories #1110 - Mormon Stories Podcast - YouTube - 2019-05-09
  • Mormon Stories #1111: The LDS Church’s Coverup of Sterling Van Wagenen’s Sexual Abuse Pt. 2 - Mormon Stories Podcast - YouTube - 2019-05-09
  • Sundance Film Festival co-founder pleads guilty to sex abuse - ABC4 Utah - 2019-04-30
• James Grant Stringham was a Mormon church member and pediatric physician in Salt Lake City, Utah; in 1980, he made a video recording of a sexual nature involving a child patient; in 1982, pleaded no contest to a second-degree felony charge of sexual exploitation of a minor; sentenced to five years probation and ordered to pay $7,500 restitution; his medical license was suspended for 90 days
  • 1621: Suffering Abuse in the Shadow of Mormon Prophets - Christine Burton
• Christopher Michael Jensen was a Mormon church member in Utah and West Virginia; sentenced to 35 to 75 years in prison for sexually abusing two children; local LDS church coverup alleged; LDS church settled civil lawsuit mid-trial in 2018 for $32 million, also spending over $27 million on legal fees; FLOODLIT.org discovered the settlement details in 2025 and made them public for the first time
  • Mormon Congregation Assaults & Drowns Out Mothers Warning Them That Church Leaders Enable Pedophiles - NewNameNoah - 2019-05-11
• Paul Douglas Burdick was an LDS bishop and drivers education teacher in Oregon; arrested in 2019 and charged with child sexual abuse; pleaded guilty to third-degree sex abuse involving underage female students in his job as a drivers ed teacher
  • Hillsboro driver ed teacher, bishop arrested for sex abuse - KGW - 2019-09-05
• Gerald Elbert Mortimer was an OB/GYN doctor in Idaho and former Mormon temple president and mission president in the Philippines; admitted in 2019 to secretly using his sperm to artificially inseminate multiple women; a civil suit against him was dismissed with prejudice in 2021, possibly because of a private settlement agreement
  • Woman Files Lawsuit After DNA Test Allegedly Says Her Biological Dad Was Fertility Doctor
• Melvin Kay Johnson was a Mormon seminary teacher and Brigham Young University (BYU) religion professor; accused by multiple victims of sexually abusing them when they were children; excommunicated and rebaptized; reportedly confessed to sexual abuse, but was not criminally charged; two victims filed lawsuits against him; one named the Mormon church as a defendant; it settled out of court
  • Ep 37: Kristy Johnson - Part 1 HOTM 2.0
  • Ep 37-Kristy Johnson Interview Part 2 - HOTM 2.0
  • Ep 37-Kristy Johnson Interview Part 3 - HOTM 2.0
• Carl Matthew Johnson was a former Mormon bishop and former mayor of West Bountiful, Utah; arrested in 2022 and charged with sexually abusing several children between 1983 and 1997; pleaded guilty in 2023 to four felony counts of child sexual abuse; sentenced in 2023 to three consecutive terms of nine years to life each for first-degree felonies, plus one term of one to 15 years on a second-degree felony
  • Former West Bountiful mayor, LDS bishop arrested on child sex abuse charges - FOX 13 News Utah - 2022-09-08