Here are all of our LDS sexual abuse case videos.

  • Lynn Alvin Mickelsen was a former Mormon general authority (member of the Second Quorum of the Seventy) in Utah; accused in the 2010s of child sexual abuse
  • 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
    • 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
    • Ex-wife of Utah former therapist accused of ‘ritualistic child sexual abuse’ arrested
  • Buckland Lee Darrell was an LDS church member and former LDS Primary children's teacher in the Redmond, Washington area; charged with first-degree felony child molestation in 2022 and 2023 (5 total victims, all young boys); admitted to sexually abusing around 6-8 children; pleaded guilty; sentenced in September 2024 to at least 8 years in prison
    • 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; arrested in February 2017 for soliciting sex from two girls he thought were 13 years old; convicted in 2019
    • 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 California state 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 LDS member in Utah arrested for allegedly possessing several child exploitation images ; convicted of one felony count in 2020; Also found guilty of 4 SEXUAL BATTERY - Class A Misdemeanor and sentenced to 365 days in jail and 48 months probation
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  • Byron Dean Wiscombe was an LDS bishopric counselor and 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 and LDS church member in West Linn, Oregon; accused of sexually abusing over 200 patients; the alleged abuse occurred over a span of many years, during which Farley was an LDS stake high council member for some time; never criminally charged; in February 2024, the city of West Linn, Oregon released a report about the way its police department investigated Farley
    • 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 an active LDS church member and music composer for multiple videos posted to official Church websites or social media accounts; in 2022, he was found guilty and sentenced to prison for rape of a child
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  • 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
    • Former Utah child protection official arrested on child pornography charges
    • 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 to prison
    • 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; 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; 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
  • Michael Jay Pratt was a former LDS seminary principal; 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; convicted of sexually abusing and raping two underage girls; sentenced in 2017 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 who sexually abused a 12-year-old child; 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 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 obstetrician/gynecologist (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; as of October 2023, nearly 300 victims had come forward; in June 2024, was charged with forcible sexual abuse; in August 2024, the Utah Supreme Court ruled that the lawsuit could proceed
    • 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 and scout leader in Blackfoot, Idaho; accused of sexually abusing many children; his stake president allegedly knew Empey was abusing kids; convicted of child molestation in May 1991; sentenced to two years probation
    • 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
    • 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
    • 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); accused during his life (1805-1844) of adulterous affairs with girls under the age of 18 and women; never charged with a sex crime
    • 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; pleaded not guilty; in June 2024, found not guilty in a jury trial of 16 of 17 counts; jurors deadlocked on one count of felony injury upon a child
    • 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 a Mormon church member and former LDS Primary teacher in Utah; was a branch president while on a Mormon mission to Argentina in the 1980s; in 2016, pleaded guilty to three first-degree felony counts of attempted aggravated sexual abuse of a child; in 2016, was sentenced to prison; in 2023, pleaded not guilty to failure to register as sex offender; was an HOA president in Lehi, Utah
    • 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 an LDS church member in Utah; arrested in 2022 and charged with sexual abuse of a child; connected to an ongoing investigation into ritualistic sexual abuse in Utah; ex-husband of Roselle Stevenson, who was arrested in 2023 and charged with child sexual abuse
    • Arrest made in Utah Co. ritualistic sex abuse investigation
  • Lowell James Robison was a Mormon mission president in the Mexico Leon mission (1995-1998) when he allegedly sexually abused multiple missionaries; accused in 2018 of the alleged abuse; two months later, died by suicide
    • Mormon Stories #896: Christopher Swallow - Abused by Mission/Stake President Lowell Robison
  • 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 an LDS church member and physician in Salt Lake City; in 1982, was found guilty of sexual exploitation of a minor; was sentenced to five years probation and ordered to pay $7,500 restitution
    • 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 out of court for an undisclosed amount
    • 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 seminary teacher, BYU religion professor; accused by his children of sexually abusing his daughters; excommunicated, rebaptized; confessed to sexual abuse, but has not been arrested or criminally charged
    • 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 mayor of West Bountiful, UT; former Mormon bishop in Utah; arrested for and charged with sexually abusing several children; pleaded guilty in January 2023 to four felony counts of child sexual abuse; sentenced in March 2023 to prison
    • Former West Bountiful mayor, LDS bishop arrested on child sex abuse charges - FOX 13 News Utah - 2022-09-08