3 LDS sex abuse cases found

  • Crime city: UT - Orem
    • Derek C. Finlinson
    • Derek Finlinson (1984 – ) was a Mormon church member in Orem, Utah; who allegedly recorded a woman in a dressing room while she was changing clothes, Oct 2009; pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor count of voyeurism, in 2010
    • Alleged crimeAlleged crime: 2000s,
    • Alleged crime scenesAlleged crime city: UT - Orem,
    • Alleged crime scenesAlleged crime county: utah,
    • Alleged crime scenesAlleged crime state: Utah,
    • Alleged crime scenesAlleged crime country: utah,
    • ConvictedConvicted: 2010,
    • Criminal casesCriminal case(s): guilty,
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    • Larry E Harmon
    • Larry Harmon (1932 – 2012) was a Mormon in Utah; sentenced to jail and probation in 2005 for aggravated sex abuse of a child; charged in 2012 with first-degree felony aggravated sex abuse of a child; according to police, Harmon was allowed to be around children at an LDS ward Christmas party (where the alleged abuse took place in 2011) despite being a registered sex offender; died in 2012, so the charge was dismissed
    • CrimeCrime: 2000s, 2010s,
    • Alleged crime scenesCrime city: UT - Orem,
    • Alleged crime scenesCrime county: UT - Utah,
    • Alleged crime scenesCrime state: Utah,
    • ConvictedConvicted: 2005,
    • Church positionsLDS positions: Missionary, Senior missionary, Temple worker,
    • Criminal casesCriminal case(s): Convicted, Died awaiting trial, Jail, Probation, Registered sex offender,
      • According to police, Harmon was allowed to be around children at an LDS ward Christmas party despite being a registered sex offender
      "[T]he defendant was at his LDS Church building in Orem assisting members of the ward in setting up for a Christmas party. He located the 12-year-old female victim alone in the kitchen of the church."
      — 2012 police probable cause statement
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