2 LDS sex abuse cases found

  • Crime city: West Valley
    • Nathaniel Strunk Barker
    • Nathaniel Barker (1989 – ) pled guilty in Utah to attempted forcible sexual abuse in 2019; arrested in 2025 and charged with 35 various charges related to sexual abuse of a minor; being held without bail in Utah County Jail
    • CrimeCrime: 2010s, 2020s,
    • Alleged crime scenesCrime state: Arizona, Utah,
    • ConvictedConvicted: 2019,
    • Criminal casesCriminal case(s): Convicted, guilty, Ongoing, Pleaded guilty, pled guilty,
    • Church actionAlleged church actions: Unknown church action,
      • "Nathaniel admitted to being sexually attracted to children" - 2025 p.c. affidavit
      "[Barker] claimed that he was sick and on a lot of prescription medications and did not remember taking photographs of [redacted] or saving them onto his computer."
      — p.c. affidavit, 2019 criminal case
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    • Dale Evertt Heckel
    • Dale Heckel (1976 – ) was a Mormon church member in West Valley, Utah; convicted of sexual abuse in 2009; is a registered sex offender living in West Valley, Utah as of May 2026
    • ConvictedConvicted: 2009,
    • Criminal casesCriminal case(s): convicted pleaded guilty, Pleaded guilty,
    • Church actionAlleged church actions: unknown,
      • "they didn't want to "ruin his life""
      — The reasoning given by two bishops for not reporting Heckel to the police for a previous alleged assault, according a relative of the 2009 victim
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