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59 LDS sex abuse cases found

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- Terry Alexander (1942 – 2021) was a Mormon church member; accused of sexual abuse
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- Cortney Andrew (1984 – ) was a Mormon church member and bishopric counselor in Logan, Utah; charged in 2023 in Utah with four second degree felony counts of enticing a minor by internet or text; pleaded guilty to reduced charges in December 2023; sentenced in January 2024 to 60 days in jail
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- Convicted: 2023,
- Was Bishopric counselor, Missionary,
- Convicted, Jail, Plea deal, Pleaded guilty, Probation,
- Alleged failure to report
- Michael Andrew (1977 – ) was a Mormon church member, former LDS church employee and part-owner of a children's gymnastics academy in or near Prescott, Arizona; accused in 2024 of child sexual abuse; convicted via a plea agreement in 2025; set to be sentenced Oct. 29
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- Crime: 2020s,
- Places lived: Arizona, Idaho,
- Crime country: United States,
- Crime state: Arizona,
- Convicted: 2025,
- Was Church employee, Youth leader,
- Convicted, Pleaded guilty,
- Samuel Baugh (1983 – ) was a Mormon church member in Kingston, Idaho; charged in 2025 with multiple felonies related to child sexual abuse; allegedly molested two children for many years; his defense attorney noted Baugh was active in the church while requesting a reduction in the bond amount; Floodlit is seeking court documents
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- Alleged crime: 2010s, 2020s,
- Places lived: Idaho,
- Crime country: United States,
- Crime state: Idaho,
- Crime county: ID - Shoshone,
- Was Unknown position,
- Ongoing,
- Heber Beckstrom (1929 – 2009) was a Mormon church member; accused of sexual abuse
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- Was Unknown position,
- Gail Benroth (1942 – 2015) was a Mormon church member; accused of sexual abuse
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- Karl Bergen (1921 – 2019) was a Mormon church member; accused of sexual abuse
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- Was Bishopric counselor, Elders quorum, Other leader,
- Alexander Boulton (1917 – 2015) was a former Mormon bishop of the 28th Ward in South Ogden, Utah; in 1995, convicted via plea deal of one second-degree felony count of child sex abuse; sentenced to probation
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- Crime: 1990s,
- Places lived: Australia, England, United Kingdom, Utah,
- Crime country: United States,
- Crime state: Utah,
- Crime county: UT - Utah,
- Convicted: 1995,
- Was Bishop, Bishopric counselor,
- Convicted, Plea deal, Pleaded guilty,
- Jay Burke (1944 – 2016) was a Mormon church member; accused of sexual abuse
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- Thomas Carter (1941 – 2025) was a Mormon church member; accused of sexual abuse
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- Dennis Chadwick (1939 – 2023) was a Mormon church member; accused of sexual abuse
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- Was Missionary,
- Alvin Chamberlain (1921 – 2024) was a Mormon church member; accused of sexual abuse
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- Was Missionary, Senior missionary, Temple worker,
- James Chapman (1935 – 2022) was a Mormon church member; accused of sexual abuse
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- Kevin Christensen (1960 – ) was a Mormon church member and judge in Brigham City, Utah; accused of receiving and distributing child sexual abuse material (CSAM) to individuals he believed to be minor children; pleaded not guilty in July 2025
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- Alleged crime: 2020s,
- Places lived: Utah,
- Crime country: United States,
- Crime state: Utah,
- Crime county: UT - Box Elder,
- Crime city: UT - Tremonton,
- Was Stake high council,
- Ongoing,
- Melvin Cloward (1931 – 2014) was a Mormon church member; accused of sexual abuse
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- David Dawson was an LDS church member and primary teacher in Logan, Utah; accused of child sexual abuse; convicted
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- Was Elders quorum, Primary, Youth leader,
- Convicted, Unknown result,
- Chet Egley (1982 – ) was a Mormon church member in Weston, Idaho; tried to meet a 13 year old girl for sex in Utah; pleaded guilty and convicted to one count sexual abuse of a child and two counts of enticing a minor by internet or text
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- Crime: 2020s,
- Places lived: Idaho, Utah,
- Crime country: United States,
- Crime state: Utah,
- Crime county: UT - Cache,
- Convicted: 2023,
- Was Elders quorum, Sunday school, Youth leader,
- Convicted, Pleaded guilty, Unknown result,
- Joel Elliott (1943 – 2024) was a Mormon church member; accused of sexual abuse
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- John Everett (1927 – 2012) was a Mormon church member; accused of sexual abuse
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- Alfred Forrester (1936 – 2013) was a Mormon church member in California; excommunicated in the 1950s after conviction for child molestation; moved to Iowa, reoffended, incarcerated; returned to California, convicted once or twice more, then assigned to be a Mormon church scoutmaster; abused again, caught, sentenced to prison in 1979; a 2024 lawsuit against the LDS church alleged that a bishop failed to protect kids
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- Crime: 1950s, 1960s, 1970s,
- Places lived: California, Iowa,
- Crime country: United States,
- Crime state: California, Iowa,
- Convicted: 1979, convicted-year-1956, convicted-year-1960, convicted-year-1966,
- Was Scout leader,
- Convicted, Plea deal, Pleaded guilty, Prison, Probation, Registered sex offender, Released,
- Lawsuit v. LDS church, Ongoing,
- Alleged failure to report
- Ernest Gourley (1927 – 2011) was a Mormon church member; accused of sexual abuse
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- Was Music leader, Other leader, Ward clerk, Youth leader,
- Tyson Green was a Mormon church member; accused of sexual abuse
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- Alleged crime: 2020s,
- Places lived: Utah,
- Crime country: United States,
- Crime state: Utah,
- Was Stake high council, Youth leader,
- Ongoing,
- Henry Gurule (1918 – 2012) was a Mormon church member in Utah; accused of sexual abuse; died in 2012
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- Douglas Hall (1982 – ) was a Mormon church member and real estate agent in Idaho; pleaded guilty in 2025 to first-degree felony object rape in Utah, and to lewd conduct with a minor under the age of 16 in Idaho; other charges in both cases were dropped via plea agreements; sentenced to five years to life in prison in Utah, and to eight years to life in prison in Idaho, per court documents
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- Crime: 2020s,
- Places lived: Idaho, Oklahoma, Utah,
- Crime country: United States,
- Crime state: Idaho, Utah,
- Crime county: UT - Washington,
- Crime city: UT - St. George,
- Convicted: 2025,
- Was Unknown position,
- Convicted, Plea deal, Pleaded guilty, Prison,
- Merlyn Hanks (1942 – 2020) was a Mormon church member; accused of sexual abuse
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- Larry Harmon (1932 – 2012) was a Mormon church member; accused of sexual abuse
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- Was Missionary, Senior missionary, Temple worker,
- Aurell Hatch (1932 – 2015) was a Mormon church member; accused of sexual abuse
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- Willard Heaps (1924 – 2016) was a Mormon church member; accused of sexual abuse
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- Was Elders quorum, High priest, Other leader, Sunday school,
- Daniel Henshaw (1990 – ) was a Mormon church member in Logan, Utah; accused of sexual abuse; convicted in 2019 of sexually abusing a 3-year-old girl; sentenced to seven months in jail; arrested in 2023 and found competent to stand trial on charges of plotting to rape and murder a Logan, Utah woman
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- Convicted: 2019,
- Was Missionary,
- Convicted, Jail, Ongoing,
- Alleged failure to report
- Lynn Hill was a Mormon scoutmaster in Utah; worked from 1976 to 1984 as a financial auditor for the LDS church, including in Japan and other Asian countries; sentenced in 2004 to up to five years in prison for sexually abusing a 17-year-old developmentally disabled girl; Hill molested her while driving her to an LDS church activity for disabled children, and at her home, according to charging documents
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- Crime: 2000s,
- Places lived: Utah,
- Crime country: United States,
- Crime state: Utah,
- Convicted: 2004,
- Was Missionary, Scout leader,
- Convicted, Plea deal, Prison, Released,
- Keith Huntsman (1945 – ) was a Mormon church member; accused of sexual abuse
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- Albert Jackson (1906 – 2010) was a Mormon church member in Lewiston, Utah and Centerville, Utah; accused of child sexual abuse; convicted in 2002 (at age 96) via plea agreement to two second-degree felony counts of sex abuse of a child; was sentenced to two concurrent prison terms of one to 15 years each
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- Crime: 1990s,
- Places lived: Utah,
- Crime country: United States,
- Crime state: Utah,
- Crime county: UT - Cache,
- Convicted: 2002,
- Was Unknown position,
- Convicted, Plea deal, Pleaded guilty, Prison, Registered sex offender, Released,
- Gail Jensen was a Mormon church member; accused of sexual abuse
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- Brent Johnson (1973 – ) was a Mormon church member in Cedar Hills, Utah; charged in 2024 with multiple felonies related to child sexual abuse; police said they found three videos of Johnson in 2013 where he was recording himself sexually abusing an 11-year-old child while she was sleeping
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- Alleged crime: 2010s, 2020s,
- Places lived: Unknown location,
- Crime country: United States,
- Crime state: Utah,
- Crime county: UT - Utah,
- Convicted: 2025,
- Was Missionary,
- Unknown result,
- John Jones (1933 – 1937) was a Mormon church member; accused of sexual abuse
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- Was Other leader,
- David Keller (1970 – ) was a Mormon temple worker, Sunday school teacher and former stake presidency member in Paradise, Cache Valley, Utah; admitted in May 2024 to child sexual abuse and was charged with seven first-degree felony counts of aggravated sexual abuse of a child
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- Alleged crime: 2000s, 2010s,
- Places lived: Cache County (Utah), Utah,
- Crime country: United States,
- Crime state: Utah,
- Crime county: UT - Cache,
- Was Stake presidency counselor, Sunday school, Temple worker,
- Admitted guilt, Ongoing,
- Thomas Kimball (1967 – 2020) was a Mormon church member in Logan, Utah; accused of sexual abuse by multiple women; died by suicide in October 2020, shortly after allegations became public
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- Alleged crime: 2000s, 2010s,
- Places lived: Cache County (Utah), Utah,
- Crime country: United States,
- Crime state: Utah,
- Crime county: UT - Cache,
- Never charged, Not convicted, Suicide,
- Duane Kump (1926 – 2009) was a Mormon church member; accused of sexual abuse
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- David Lunt was a Mormon church member; accused of sexual abuse
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- Gary Madsen (1934 – 2024) was a Mormon church member; accused of sexual abuse
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- Richard Mallard (1981 – ) was a Mormon church member in Orem, Utah; charged in July 2025 with 41 felony counts related to child sexual exploitation; in August 2025, was released on bond, despite initially being held without bail; several LDS church members sent the court letters of support on Mallard's behalf prior to his detention hearing
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- Alleged crime: 2020s,
- Places lived: Utah,
- Crime country: United States,
- Crime state: Utah,
- Was Missionary, Scout leader,
- Ongoing,
- Winford Pace (1933 – 2007) was a Mormon church member; accused of sexual abuse
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- Was Unknown position,
- Jack Payton (1945 – 2022) was a Mormon church member; accused of sexual abuse
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- Harry Poll (1936 – 2007) was a Mormon church member; accused of sexual abuse
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- Was Missionary,
- Mark Porter (1942 – ) was a Mormon church member and former stake presidency member in Utah; accused of sexual abuse in 2022 after allegedly groping women in a Logan grocery store; pleaded guilty in December 2022
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- Crime: 2020s,
- Places lived: Cache County (Utah), Utah,
- Crime country: United States,
- Crime state: Utah,
- Crime county: UT - Cache,
- Convicted: 2022,
- Was Missionary, Other leader, Stake presidency counselor,
- Convicted, Pleaded guilty,
- Edmund Pudlewski (1922 – 2014) was a Mormon church member; accused of sexual abuse
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- Jeffrey Rock was an LDS church member; accused of sexual abuse
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- Was Bishopric counselor, Elders quorum, Nursery, Primary, Scout leader, Stake high council, Youth leader,
- Erick Rosenvall (1930 – 2023) was a Mormon church member; accused of sexual abuse
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- Gysbertus Schuurman (1931 – 2015) was a Mormon church member; accused of sexual abuse
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- Fred Schwendiman (1941 – 2011) was a Mormon church member; accused of sexual abuse
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- Dennis Stutz (1942 – 2024) was a Mormon church member; accused of sexual abuse
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- James Takane (1930 – 2023) was a Mormon church member in Logan, Utah; accused of molesting a 9-year-old girl at his home in 2001; convicted in 2002 of child sexual abuse; sentenced to 90 days in the Cache County jail
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- Crime: 2000s,
- Crime country: United States,
- Crime state: Utah,
- Crime county: UT - Cache,
- Crime city: UT - Logan,
- Convicted: 2002,
- Convicted, Jail, No contest, Registered sex offender,
- Todd Tanner (1970 – ) was a Mormon church member in the Cortez/Durango, Colorado area and St, George, Utah; co-founder of Utah-based dirty soda business Swig Drinks in approximately 2010; charged in 2010 in Colorado with crimes related to child sexual abuse; convicted in 2011 and sentenced to 48 months probation; allegedly was a Sunday School teacher in St. George, Utah after his conviction
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- Crime: 2000s,
- Places lived: Colorado, Utah,
- Crime country: United States,
- Crime state: Colorado,
- Crime county: UT - Washington,
- Convicted: 2011,
- Was Stake high council, Sunday school,
- Convicted, Ongoing, Plea deal, Pleaded guilty, Probation, Registered sex offender,
- Anthony Teeples (1968 – ) was an LDS church member in Cache County, Utah; accused of sexual abuse; convicted in 1989 and in 2019
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- Crime: 1980s, 2010s,
- Places lived: Cache County (Utah), Utah,
- Crime country: United States,
- Crime state: Utah,
- Crime county: UT - Cache,
- Convicted: 2019,
- Was Youth leader,
- Convicted, Pleaded guilty, Unknown result,
- Alva Van Wagoner (1929 – 2019) was a Mormon church member; accused of sexual abuse
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- Was Branch president, Ministering/home teacher, Other leader, Sunday school,
- Mason Walker (1941 – 2015) was a Mormon church member; accused of sexual abuse
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- Lamont Wells (1930 – 2011) was a Mormon church member; accused of sexual abuse
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- Was Senior missionary,
- John West (1924 – 2014) was a Mormon church member; accused of sexual abuse
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- Ruth Worthen (1949 – ) was a Mormon church member in Hyde Park, Cache County, Utah; accused of child sexual abuse by one adult in a 2019 civil lawsuit and in 2023 by four adults (one of whom was the 2019 plaintiff); arrested and charged in June 2024 with numerous felonies related to child sexual abuse; died in 2025
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- Alleged crime: 1980s, 2000s,
- Places lived: Cache County (Utah), Utah,
- Crime country: United States,
- Crime state: Utah,
- Crime county: UT - Cache,
- Was Unknown position,
- Ongoing,
- Dismissed with prejudice,
- Alleged failure to report

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