21 LDS sex abuse cases found
- Crime country: Australia
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- Geoffrey Ashdown (1947 – ) was a Mormon bishop and deputy school principal in Australia; convicted after alleged sexual abuse of two boys; the alleged abuse took place while Ashdown was a bishop; died in 2012
Convicted:
1994,
LDS positions: Bishop, Scout leader,
Criminal case(s): Convicted,
Alleged failure to report- View report »
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- Joseph Atwater (1954 – ) was an LDS church member in Australia; pleaded guilty in 2005 to trafficking and kidnapping
Crime: 2000s,
Crime country:
Australia,
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Convicted:
2005,
LDS positions: Unknown position,
Criminal case(s): Convicted, - View report »
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- 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
Alleged crime: 1990s, 2000s,
Alleged crime country:
Australia,
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- 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
LDS positions: Sunday school,
Criminal case(s): Convicted, Pleaded guilty, Unknown result, - View report »
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- Gordon Crawford was an LDS church member in Australia; accused of sexual abuse
LDS positions: Unknown position,
Criminal case(s): Unknown result, - View report »
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- John Doe was an LDS church member in Australia; accused of sexual abuse; convicted; in 2018, sentenced to nearly 20 years in prison
Convicted:
2018,
Criminal case(s): Convicted, Prison, - View report »
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- Jane Doe was an LDS church member in Australia; accused of sexual abuse
LDS positions: Sunday school,
Criminal case(s): Convicted, Jail, Plea deal, Pleaded guilty, - View report »
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- Nicolas Faivre (1979 – ) was a former LDS bishop in Australia; charged with sending sexually explicit messages to a child
LDS positions: Bishop,
Criminal case(s): Ongoing, Unknown result, - View report »
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- 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
Crime: 1960s, 1970s, 1980s, 1990s, 2000s, 2010s,
Crime country:
Australia,
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- 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
LDS positions: Missionary,
Criminal case(s): Convicted, Found guilty, Jail, Ongoing, - View report »
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- 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
Crime: 1990s,
Crime country:
Australia,
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- Daphney Matthews (1970 – ) was a Mormon church member in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia; accused of sexual abuse
LDS positions: Youth leader,
Criminal case(s): Admitted guilt, Convicted, Plea deal, Pleaded guilty, Unknown result, - View report »
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- 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
LDS positions: Unknown position,
Criminal case(s): Convicted, Jail, - View report »
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- David Mits was an LDS church member and police officer in Melbourne, Australia; accused of sexual abuse; convicted; sentenced to nine months in jail
LDS positions: Unknown position,
Criminal case(s): Convicted, Jail, - View report »
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- 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
Crime: 1980s,
Crime country:
Australia,
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- 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
Alleged crime: 2010s, 2020s,
Alleged crime country:
Australia,
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- 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
Crime: 1990s, 2000s, 2010s,
Crime country:
Australia,
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- 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 in 2010 of using the internet in an offensive way
Crime: 2000s,
Crime country:
Australia,
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- 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
Alleged crime: 1970s, 1980s,
Alleged crime country:
Australia,
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