Crime Country: Australia

27 LDS sex abuse cases found

Crime country: Australia

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- Geoffrey Ashdown was a Mormon bishop and deputy school principal in Australia; allegedly sexually abused two children while he was a bishop; died
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- Was Bishop, Scout leader,
- Alleged failure to report
- Joseph Atwater (1954 – ) was an LDS church member in Australia; pleaded guilty in 2005 to trafficking and kidnapping
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- Crime: 2000s,
- Places lived: Australia,
- Crime country: Australia,
- Convicted: 2005,
- Was Unknown position,
- Convicted,
- Christopher Bartle (1960 – ) was a Mormon church member in Perth, Western Australia; accused of sexual abuse of four girls that allegedly took place between 1998 and 2007
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- Alleged crime: 1990s, 2000s,
- Places lived: Australia,
- Crime country: Australia,
- Was Unknown position,
- Ongoing,
- Alleged failure to report
- Bret Chesworth was a Mormon church member in Australia; pleaded guilty to 7 charges of child abuse and bestiality including downloading images; he was caught in an international sting operation involving Australian and US agencies
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- Was Sunday school,
- Convicted, Pleaded guilty, Unknown result,
- Gordon Crawford was an LDS church member in Australia; accused of sexual abuse
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- Was Unknown position,
- Unknown result,
- John Doe (1952 – ) was an LDS church member in Adelaide, Australia; sentenced in 2021 to 10 years in prison for child sexual abuse
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- Crime: 1980s,
- Places lived: Australia,
- Crime country: Australia,
- Convicted: 2021,
- Was Unknown position,
- Convicted, Prison,
- John Doe was an LDS church member in Ipswich, Australia; accused of sexual abuse; convicted; sentenced to 7 years in jail
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- Convicted, Jail,
- John Doe was an LDS church member in Brisbane, Australia; accused of child sexual abuse; convicted and sentenced to 15 months in jail
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- Was Scout leader,
- Convicted, Jail,
- John Doe was an LDS church member in Australia; accused of sexual abuse; convicted; in 2018, sentenced to nearly 20 years in prison
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- Convicted: 2018,
- Convicted, Prison,
- John Doe was an LDS church member in Australia; accused of sexual abuse
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- Never charged, Not convicted,
- Alleged failure to report
- John Doe was an LDS church member in Queensland, Australia; accused of sexual abuse
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- Alleged crime: 1980s,
- Places lived: Australia,
- Crime country: Australia,
- Was Other leader,
- Never charged, Not convicted,
- Lawsuit v. LDS church,
- Alleged failure to report
- Jane Doe was an LDS church member in Australia; accused of sexual abuse
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- Was Sunday school,
- Jail,
- Nicolas Faivre (1979 – ) was a former LDS bishop in Australia; charged with sending sexually explicit messages to a child
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- Was Bishop,
- Ongoing, Unknown result,
- William Harding (1940 – ) was a Mormon branch president, elders quorum president and ward clerk in Tasmania and Queensland, Australia; charged in or before 2023 with multiple counts of sexual assault of a minor in two states in Australia; allegedly had as many as 40 victims; in 2024, pleaded guilty to reduced charges and was sentenced to 9 months in jail in Brisbane; in 2025, faced new charges in Tasmania
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- Crime: 1960s, 1970s, 1980s, 1990s, 2000s, 2010s,
- Places lived: Australia,
- Crime country: Australia,
- Was Branch president, Ward clerk,
- Convicted, Jail, Ongoing, Plea deal, Pleaded guilty,
- Alleged failure to report
- Caleb Horner was an LDS church member in Melbourne, Australia; arrested in November 2021 and accused of sexually assaulting a 14-year-old boy he met in 2020; found guilty in 2024 of two counts of sexual assault by touch of a child under 16; sentenced in October 2024 to three years "community corrections," avoiding additional jail time
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- Was Missionary,
- Convicted, Found guilty, Jail, Ongoing,
- A K (1961 – ) was a Mormon church member in Brisbane, Australia; accused of sexual abuse
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- Was Bishopric counselor, Seminary teacher,
- Stephen Kay (1940 – ) was a Mormon church member, school teacher and scout leader in Brisbane, Australia; charged multiple times with child sexual abuse; pleaded guilty in 1996 and was sentenced to jail
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- Crime: 1990s,
- Places lived: Australia,
- Crime country: Australia,
- Was Scout leader,
- Convicted, Jail, Pleaded guilty,
- Daphney Matthews (1970 – ) was a Mormon church member in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia; accused of sexual abuse
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- Was Youth leader,
- Unknown result,
- Keith McDowall (1925 – 2018) was a Mormon church member in Canberra, Australia; accused of sexual abuse of relatives, including an infant
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- Never charged, Not convicted,
- Alleged failure to report
- Ronald Mills was an LDS church member in Orange, New South Wales, Australia; accused of sexual abuse; convicted; sentenced in or around 1982 to 3 years in jail
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- Was Unknown position,
- Convicted, Jail,
- David Mits was an LDS church member and police officer in Melbourne, Australia; accused of sexual abuse; convicted; sentenced to nine months in jail
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- Was Unknown position,
- Convicted, Jail,
- Geoffrey Powell (1947 – ) was an LDS bishop in Western Australia; accused of sexually abusing a seven-year-old girl in his ward; the alleged abuse took place while he was a bishop; the victim twice complained to the LDS church, but said she was not believed and was chastised, and it was suggested she should move away if she felt uncomfortable; in 2019, he was sentenced to 12 months in jail
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- Crime: 1980s,
- Places lived: Australia,
- Crime country: Australia,
- Convicted: 2019,
- Was Bishop,
- Convicted, Jail,
- Alleged failure to report
- Philip Salt (1989 – ) was an LDS church member in Perth, Western Australia; accused in April 2023 of 16 charges of sexual abuse against two teenage male victims he met as their LDS youth leader
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- Alleged crime: 2010s, 2020s,
- Places lived: Australia,
- Crime country: Australia,
- Was Youth leader,
- Ongoing,
- Darran Scott (1964 – ) was a Mormon church member and filmmaker in Archies Creek, Victoria, Australia; pleaded guilty in 2017 to 16 charges related to the sexual abuse of 11 boys over a 25-year period; sentenced in 2017 to 10 years in prison
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- Crime: 1990s, 2000s, 2010s,
- Places lived: Australia,
- Crime country: Australia,
- Convicted: 2017,
- Was Youth leader,
- Convicted, Plea deal, Pleaded guilty, Prison,
- Murray Stubbs (1965 – ) was a Mormon church member in Canberra ACT Australia; accused of grooming a child using the internet because of sexually explicit texts; was found guilty of using the internet in an offensive way
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- Crime: 2000s,
- Places lived: Australia,
- Crime country: Australia,
- Convicted: 2008,
- Convicted,
- Alleged failure to report
- Ruecha Tokputza was an LDS church member in Australia; accused of sexual abuse
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- Unknown result,
- Orson Wright (1928 – 2017) was a Mormon mission president in Sydney, Australia from 1978 to 1980; accused of grooming some of the sister missionaries in his care to be his polygamous wives; removed early from his mission assignment; LDS church leaders in Salt Lake City, Utah allegedly covered up the reasons for Wright's removal
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- Alleged crime: 1970s, 1980s,
- Places lived: Australia,
- Crime country: Australia,
- Was Bishop, Bishopric counselor, Branch president, Mission president, Missionary, Stake high council, Temple worker,
- Never charged, Not convicted,
- Alleged failure to report

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