Crime State: Nevada

12 LDS sex abuse cases found

Nevada

Crime state: Nevada

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- Allen Brinkerhoff (1929 – 2019) was a Mormon bishop and stake president and manager of an LDS stake welfare farm in Nevada; arrested in Nevada in 2007 and admitted to sexually abusing two children; was convicted and sentenced to 5 to 15 years in prison for battery with intent to commit sexual assault, and 12 to 32 months in prison for sexual abuse of a child; died in 2019
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- Convicted: 2007,
- LDS positions: Bishop, Bishopric counselor, Other leader, Stake president,
- Criminal case(s): Admitted guilt, Convicted, Prison,
- Alleged failure to report
- Scott Darrington (1967 – ) was a former LDS bishop and assistant school principal in Fallon, Nevada; convicted of possession of child pornography, spent a year in prison
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- Crime: 2020s,
- Places lived:
- Crime state: Nevada,
- Convicted: 2021,
- LDS positions: Bishop,
- Criminal case(s): Convicted, Prison,
- Martin Gillen was a Mormon church member in Nevada and Colorado; in 2002, Gillen was convicted of sexual assault of a 6-year-old and sentenced to eight years in prison in Colorado; in 2016, arrested and charged again with child sex abuse, but case was dismissed
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- Convicted: 2002,
- LDS positions: Ministering/home teacher,
- Criminal case(s): Convicted, Prison,
- Paul Jellum (1959 – ) was a Mormon scout leader in Logan, Utah in the 1980s; suspended by the BSA in 1987 after being accused of sexually abusing a 14-year-old Boy Scout in his troop during a 1986 Scouting event at Camp Hunt near Bear Lake, Utah; in 1990, Jellum became a scoutmaster in a Nevada LDS ward despite his prior suspension; in 1991, Jellum admitted to the abuse
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- Alleged crime: 1980s,
- Places lived:
- Alleged crime state: Nevada,
- LDS positions: Scout leader,
- Criminal case(s): Admitted guilt, Never charged, Police investigation, Unknown result,
- Alleged failure to report
- Boyd Lords was a Mormon church member in Winnemucca, Nevada; accused of child sexual abuse; pleaded guilty in 2022 to one felony count of lewdness with a child under the age of 14; was sentenced to prison
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- Crime: 2010s,
- Places lived:
- Crime state: Nevada,
- Convicted: 2022,
- LDS positions: High priest, Missionary, Ward executive secretary,
- Criminal case(s): Convicted, Prison,
- Douglas Lund was a former Mormon bishopric counselor in Pahrump, Nevada; arrested in 2011 and accused of repeated sexual abuse of two young girls; the alleged abuse occurred over a period of several years
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- LDS positions: Bishopric counselor,
- Criminal case(s): Unknown result,
- David Matlock (1969 – ) was a Mormon church member; arrested and convicted in 2022 of open and gross lewdness
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- Crime: 2020s,
- Places lived:
- Crime state: Nevada,
- Convicted: 2022,
- LDS positions: Unknown position,
- Criminal case(s): Convicted, Unknown result,
- Michael McClellan (1957 – ) was an LDS church member in Las Vegas, Nevada; arrested; convicted of attempted lewdness with a minor; sentenced to prison; as of 2024, lives in Cottonwood, Arizona
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- Crime: 2000s,
- Places lived:
- Crime state: Nevada,
- Convicted: 2004,
- LDS positions: Youth leader,
- Criminal case(s): Convicted, Prison, Registered sex offender, Released,
- John Misseldine (1982 – ) was a Mormon missionary in Nevada; charged with sexually abusing two children at an LDS chapel in the Las Vegas area; in 2005, made a plea deal to avoid prison, via an Alford plea to two counts; a lawsuit said a local Mormon leader failed to report abuse to police; in 2008, sentenced to prison after violating the plea deal; as of 2024, lives in Las Vegas, Nevada as a registered sex offender
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- Crime: 2000s,
- Places lived:
- Crime state: Nevada,
- Convicted: 2005,
- LDS positions: Missionary,
- Criminal case(s): Alford plea, Convicted, Prison, Probation, Registered sex offender,
- Civil case(s): Dismissed, Lawsuit v. LDS church, Settlement, Unknown result,
- Alleged failure to report
- Jack Schofield (1923 – 2015) was an LDS church member, school administrator and state senator in Las Vegas, Nevada; accused of sexual harassment; died in 2015; a victim told FLOODLIT he sold her repeatedly to sex trafficking clients at a motel in Las Vegas
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- LDS positions: Unknown position,
- Criminal case(s): Never charged, Not convicted,
- Alleged failure to report
- Robert Stevenson was an LDS church member in Las Vegas, Nevada; accused of sexual abuse
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- Alleged crime: 2000s,
- Places lived:
- Alleged crime state: Nevada,
- LDS positions: Unknown position,
- Criminal case(s): Unknown result,
- Alleged failure to report
- Karey Zimmerman (1962 – ) was a Mormon church member in Utah and Nevada; in 2025, was accused in a civil lawsuit of child sexual abuse that allegedly took place in Nevada and Utah; the Mormon church was also named as a defendant; the lawsuit said a Utah bishop failed to report abuse allegations to police
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- Alleged crime: 2000s, 2010s,
- Places lived:
- Alleged crime county: UT - Salt Lake,
- Alleged crime state: Nevada, Utah,
- LDS positions: Missionary,
- Criminal case(s): Never charged, Not convicted,
- Civil case(s): Lawsuit v. LDS church, Ongoing,
- Alleged failure to report

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