2 LDS sex abuse cases found

  • Crime city: Saratoga Springs
    • Stephen Jay Cooper
    • Stephen Cooper (1970 – ) was a Mormon church member; convicted of ATTEMPTED - SEXUAL EXPLOITATION OF A MINOR and DEALING IN MATERIALS HARMFUL TO MINOR-DEFENDANT18 AND OLDER, both 3rd degree felonies
    • CrimeCrime: 2020s,
    • Alleged crime scenesCrime city: Saratoga Springs,
    • Alleged crime scenesCrime county: utah,
    • Alleged crime scenesCrime state: Utah,
    • ConvictedConvicted: 2024,
    • Church positionsLDS positions: Unknown position,
    • Criminal casesCriminal case(s): Convicted, guilty, Pleaded guilty,
      • "“Again, this wasn’t a crime of opportunity that found you and you got caught up in it or made a wrong turn. You went looking anyway, deep down that rabbit hole.”"
      — Cedar City by 5th District Judge Matthew L. Bell
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    • Kent Franklin Langston
    • Kent Langston (1951 – ) was a Mormon church member and former LDS Primary teacher in Saratoga Springs, Utah; charged on December 9, 2025 with several first-degree felonies related to child sexual abuse; accused of abusing at least eight children and one disabled adult
    • Alleged crimeAlleged crime: 1970s, 2010s, 2020s,
    • Alleged crime scenesAlleged crime city: Saratoga Springs,
    • Alleged crime scenesAlleged crime county: UT - Utah,
    • Alleged crime scenesAlleged crime state: Utah,
    • Church positionsLDS positions: Missionary, Primary, Ward executive secretary,
    • Criminal casesCriminal case(s): Ongoing, Police investigation,
      • Langston continued in the text by explaining he will spend the rest of his life in prison and then questioned whether he deserved to spend the rest of his life in prison and suggested that there’s a lot more ‘good’ that he can do
      "“I am sorry for what I’ve done. I’m so, so sorry for the pain inflicted on your beautiful, precious families. Why did it happen?...In my weakness, he told me there is no harm in a little of this and a little of that. Once the dam I built was breached, the breach grew little by little…I’m now facing 15-years-to life in prison.”"
      — Kent Langston, text message to victims’ families, according to a probable cause affidavit
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