Church discipline action: Excommunicated

67 matching Mormon sex abuse cases

- James Adams was a Mormon church member in Beckley, West Virginia; sentenced to prison in 1994 for sexually abusing multiple children; in 1996, a $750 million lawsuit was filed against the Mormon church alleging coverup; the suit was settled out of court in 2000
- Church officials allegedly failed to report abuse
- LDS church payment: Undisclosed amount
- Church discipline: Excommunicated,
- Abuse went on for five years after Adams first told Mormon officials, including a bishop and stake president, the lawsuit said
- "The church is not in the business of covering up."— Church spokesman Don LeFevre
- Criminal case(s): Convicted, Prison,
- Civil lawsuit(s): Lawsuit v. LDS church, Settlement,
- Church positions: Other leader,
- Crime scenes: Victim's home,
- Victims: Multiple victims,
- Born: 1954
- Mission: no
- Places lived: West Virginia,
- Places when accused: West Virginia,
- Latest update: 1994: sentenced to prison in West Virginia for sexually abusing multiple children
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- Paul 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
- Church officials allegedly failed to report abuse
- Church discipline: Excommunicated,
- Criminal case(s): Died awaiting trial, Not convicted, Suicide,
- Civil lawsuit(s): Dismissed,
- Church positions: Unknown position,
- Crime scenes: Perpetrator's home, Victim's home,
- Victims: 2 victims, Multiple victims,
- Born: 1982
  Died: 2017
- Mission: no
- Places lived: Arizona,
- Places when accused: Arizona,
- Latest update: 2023: multiple victims are involved in a civil lawsuit against the LDS church
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- Leizza Adams was the wife of sexual abuser Paul Douglas Adams; sentenced in 2018 in Arizona to 2.5 years in prison after pleading no contest to two felony counts of child abuse (not sexual abuse)
- Church officials allegedly failed to report abuse
- Church discipline: Excommunicated,
- Criminal case(s): Convicted, No contest, Plea agreement, Prison,
- Church positions: Unknown position,
- Convicted: 2018,
- Victims: Multiple victims, Unknown number of victims,
- Mission: unknown
- Places lived: Arizona,
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- Terry Allen was an LDS church member in California; in 1987, was found guilty of sexual abuse of a child and was sentenced to six years in prison; was assigned to multiple trusted church positions, including Sunday school president, despite the Mormon church being aware that he had raped a teenager; LDS leaders were accused of hiding his abuse from local church members; as of 2024, lives in Grapevine, Texas
- Church officials allegedly failed to report abuse
- Church discipline: Excommunicated, Rebaptized,
- Criminal case(s): Convicted, Prison, Registered sex offender, Released,
- Civil lawsuit(s): No civil case,
- Church positions: Bishopric counselor, Other leader, Stake high council, Sunday school, Youth leader,
- Crime scenes: Unknown crime scene,
- Victims: 10 or more victims, Multiple victims,
- Born: 1943
- Mission: unknown
- Places lived: California, Connecticut, Texas,
- Places when accused: California, Connecticut,
- Latest update: 2024: registered sex offender; lives in Grapevine, Texas
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- Arlo Atkin was a former LDS bishop in or near Chandler, Maricopa County, Arizona; accused of raping and impregnating a 14-year-old girl in his ward while he was her bishop; pleaded guilty, spent 132 days in jail
- Church officials allegedly failed to report abuse
- Church discipline: Excommunicated,
- Criminal case(s): Convicted, Jail, Plea agreement, Pleaded guilty, Probation, Violated parole/probation,
- Civil lawsuit(s): Dismissed with prejudice, Lawsuit v. LDS church, Unknown result,
- Church positions: Bishop, Missionary,
- Crime scenes: Perpetrator's home,
- Victims: 1 victim,
- Born: 1956
- Mission: no
- Places lived: Arizona, California,
- Places when accused: Arizona,
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- Timothy 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
- Church discipline: Excommunicated,
- Criminal case(s): Never charged, Not convicted, Ongoing, Police investigation,
- Civil lawsuit(s): Ongoing,
- Church positions: Missionary,
- Victims: 2 victims, Multiple victims,
- Born: 1976
- Mission: Chile unknown
- Places lived: Utah,
- Places when accused: Utah,
- Documents available: yes (contact us to request)
- Latest update: November 2023: amended complaint filed by five women against Tim Ballard for sexual misconduct and misusing funds from donors
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- Alan Bassett was a Mormon church member and air traffic controller in Fruit Heights, Utah; accused in a 2019 civil lawsuit of child sexual abuse (dismissed without prejudice); charged in June 2024 with child sexual abuse; over 80 victims came forward; admitted to molesting many neighbor girls; tried to get his case dismissed due to an unsigned 1989 agreement with a deputy Davis County attorney
- Church officials allegedly failed to report abuse
- Church discipline: Excommunicated, Rebaptized,
- Criminal case(s): Ongoing,
- Civil lawsuit(s): Dismissed without prejudice,
- Church positions: Other leader, Scout leader, Ward clerk,
- Crime scenes: Perpetrator's home,
- Victims: 10 or more victims, Multiple victims,
- Born: 1948
- Mission: unknown
- Places lived: Davis County (Utah), New York, Utah,
- Places when accused: Davis County (Utah), Utah,
- Documents available: yes (contact us to request)
- Latest update: June 2024: charged with child sexual abuse
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- Arthur 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
- Church discipline: Excommunicated,
- Criminal case(s): Convicted,
- Civil lawsuit(s): No civil case,
- Church positions: Missionary, Scout leader,
- Crime scenes: Unknown crime scene,
- Victims: Multiple victims,
- Born: 1952
  Died: 1988
- Mission: 1971-1973 Philippines Philippine Islands / Philippines
- Places lived: Utah,
- Places when accused: Utah,
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- Gordon Bodily was a Mormon bishop and physical education teacher in Hyrum, Cache Valley, Utah; accused in 2000 of luring a 17-year-old North Carolina girl to Utah for sex while serving as an LDS bishop; sentenced in 2001 to 21 months in federal prison
- Church officials allegedly failed to report abuse
- Church discipline: Excommunicated,
- Criminal case(s): Convicted, Prison,
- Civil lawsuit(s): No civil case,
- Church positions: Bishop, Missionary,
- Convicted: 2001,
- Victims: 1 victim,
- Born: 1949
- Mission: 1968-1970 United States Eastern States (headquarters in New York City)
- Places lived: Utah,
- Latest update: 2023: registered sex offender; lives in Ogden, Utah
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- Ronald Boyce was a Mormon seminary teacher and home teacher in Schenectady, New York in the 1990s; accused of child sexual abuse in a 2024 civil lawsuit against the LDS church
- Church officials allegedly failed to report abuse
- Church discipline: Excommunicated,
- Criminal case(s): Never charged, Not convicted, Unknown result,
- Civil lawsuit(s): Lawsuit v. LDS church, Ongoing,
- Church positions: Seminary teacher, Youth leader,
- Crime scenes: LDS activity, Perpetrator's home, Recreational trip/outing, Victim's home,
- Victims: 3 victims, Multiple victims,
- Born: 1961
- Mission: unknown
- Places lived: New York, Utah,
- Documents available: yes (contact us to request)
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- 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)
- Church officials allegedly failed to report abuse
- Church discipline: Excommunicated,
- Criminal case(s): Convicted, Jail,
- Civil lawsuit(s): No civil case,
- Church positions: Sunday school,
- Convicted: 2008,
- Crime scenes: Victim's home,
- Victims: 2 victims, Multiple victims,
- Born: 1971
- Mission: unknown
- Places lived: New Zealand,
- Latest update: 2008: sentenced in New Zealand to five years in jail for child sexual abuse and animal sex abuse (bestiality)
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- David Cannata was a Mormon bishop in Tucson, Arizona in 2005 when he sexually abused a child who was 5 or 6 years old; was a stake high council member sometime in the 2010s; was confronted by the victim and turned himself into the police; convicted in 2019 and sentenced to seven and a half years in prison; was excommunicated from the Mormon church because of the abuse
- Church discipline: Excommunicated,
- Criminal case(s): Convicted, Prison,
- Civil lawsuit(s): No civil case,
- Church positions: Bishop, Bishopric counselor, Stake high council,
- Crime: 2005, in Arizona,
- Convicted: 2019,
- Victims: 1 victim,
- Born: 1965
- Mission: Unknown country Unknown
- Places lived: Arizona,
- Places when accused: Arizona,
- Latest update: 2025: serving a sentence in the Arizona Department of Corrections until 02/27/2026
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- Max Cheatham was an LDS church member in Wyoming, Utah and Colorado; accused of sexual abuse; convicted in Colorado of child sexual abuse
- Church discipline: Excommunicated, Rebaptized,
- Criminal case(s): Convicted, Unknown result,
- Civil lawsuit(s): No civil case,
- Church positions: Missionary,
- Crime scenes: Perpetrator's home,
- Victims: 10 or more victims, 100 or more victims, Multiple victims,
- Born: 1960
- Mission: 1979-1981 Argentina Argentina
- Places lived: Argentina, Colorado, Kansas, Oklahoma, Utah, Wyoming,
- Places when accused: Colorado,
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- 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
- Church discipline: Excommunicated,
- Criminal case(s): Convicted, Plea agreement, Pleaded guilty,
- Civil lawsuit(s): No civil case,
- Church positions: Unknown position,
- Victims: 1 victim,
- Mission: no
- Places lived: England, United Kingdom,
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- Benjamin Covey was a Mormon church member in the 1840s and 1850s; in 1848, was excommunicated for having sexual intercourse with two girls "less than Twelve years of age" who were his foster daughters; was rebaptized and soon thereafter was made bishop of the Salt Lake City Twelfth Ward from 22 February 1849 until 1856
- Church discipline: Church position after confession/conviction, Excommunicated, Rebaptized,
- Criminal case(s): Convicted,
- Church positions: Bishop,
- Victims: 2 victims, Multiple victims,
- Born: 1792
  Died: 1868
- Mission: unknown
- Places lived: Nebraska, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake County (Utah), Utah,
- Latest update: 1868: died
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- Gordon Crawford was an LDS church member in Australia; accused of sexual abuse
- Church discipline: Excommunicated,
- Criminal case(s): Unknown result,
- Civil lawsuit(s): No civil case,
- Church positions: Unknown position,
- Alleged crime: Unknown crime year, in Australia,
- Victims: Unknown number of victims,
- Mission: no
- Places lived: Australia,
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- 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
- Church officials allegedly failed to report abuse
- LDS church payment: $3,000,000
- Church discipline: Church position after confession/conviction, Excommunicated, Rebaptized,
- Criminal case(s): Convicted,
- Civil lawsuit(s): Lawsuit v. LDS church, Settlement,
- Church positions: High priest, Sunday school,
- Victims: 10 or more victims, Multiple victims,
- Born: 1903
  Died: 1995
- Mission: no
- Places lived: Oregon, Pennsylvania,
- Places when accused: Oregon,
- Latest update: 1995: died
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- 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
- Church officials allegedly failed to report abuse
- Church discipline: Excommunicated,
- Criminal case(s): Convicted, Prison, Probation, Registered sex offender, Violated parole/probation,
- Church positions: Scout leader, Youth leader,
- Crime: Unknown crime year, in Texas,
- Convicted: 2013,
- Victims: 1 victim,
- Born: 1955
- Mission: unknown
- Places lived: Texas,
- Places when accused: Texas,
- Latest update: 2024: lives in Port Lavaca, Texas as a registered sex offender
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- John Doe was a Mormon church member in Vernon, Utah; accused of sexual abuse
- Church officials allegedly failed to report abuse
- Church discipline: Excommunicated,
- Criminal case(s): Unknown result,
- Civil lawsuit(s): No civil case,
- Church positions: Unknown position,
- Alleged crime: Unknown crime year, in Utah,
- Mission: no
- Places lived: Utah,
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- Dave Doe was a Mormon bishop in West Valley City, Utah; accused of sexual abuse; excommunicated, but never prosecuted
- Church officials allegedly failed to report abuse
- Church discipline: Excommunicated,
- Criminal case(s): Never charged,
- Church positions: Bishop,
- Alleged crime: Unknown crime year, in Salt Lake County (Utah), Utah,
- Mission: no
- Places lived: Salt Lake County (Utah), Utah,
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