Texas

32 LDS sex abuse cases found

Crime state: Texas

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- Jared Anderson (1988 – ) was a high school teacher (and one-time "teacher of the year") and Mormon church group leader in the San Antonio, Texas area; also lived in Millington, Tennessee and Ogden, Utah; sentenced to 10 years in prison for hosting sex parties for teenage boys
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- Crime: 2010s,
- Places lived: Tennessee, Texas, Utah,
- Crime state: Texas,
- Convicted: 2017,
- Was Missionary,
- Convicted, Prison,
- Noel Anderson (1996 – ) was an LDS church primary teacher in McKinney, Texas; sentenced in 2019 in Texas to 50 years in prison for molesting children
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- Crime: 2010s,
- Places lived: Texas,
- Crime state: Texas,
- Convicted: 2019,
- Was Missionary, Primary,
- Convicted, Prison,
- Emily Anderson was a Mormon Primary president in the New Braunfels, Texas area; accused of child sexual abuse; convicted
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- Was Primary,
- Convicted,
- Charles Blome (1928 – 2005) was a Mormon church member and US Army veteran in or near Houston or Beaumont, Texas; admitted to sexually molesting at least five boys; pleaded guilty to two counts of indecency with a child; sentenced to 15 years in prison; the LDS church was ordered to pay $4 million to a 13-year-old boy victim; another lawsuit was filed against the church in 1998; Blome died in 2005
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- Crime: 1980s, 1990s,
- Places lived: Texas,
- Crime state: Texas,
- Was Unknown position,
- Convicted, Plea deal, Pleaded guilty, Prison,
- Judgment for plaintiff, Lawsuit v. LDS church,
- Alleged failure to report
- Jimmy Brooks was a Mormon church member in Texas; charged with child sexual abuse in 1994
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- Alleged crime: 1990s,
- Places lived: Texas,
- Crime state: Texas,
- Was Sunday school,
- Unknown result,
- Albert Carlson (1944 – ) was a Mormon church member in Utah, New Mexico and Texas; arrested in the 1980s in Utah on a molestation charge after allegedly molesting an underage boy who he met through the church; the case was dropped to a lewdness charge which did not require him to register as a sex offender; in 2025, sentenced in Texas to life in prison for child sexual abuse
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- Crime: 1980s, 2010s, 2020s,
- Places lived: New Mexico, Texas, Utah,
- Crime state: Texas, Utah,
- Was Unknown position,
- Convicted, Found guilty, No contest, Prison,
- Alleged failure to report
- Raymond Casillas (1970 – ) was a Mormon bishop and middle school teacher in San Antonio, Texas; arrested in 2014 and charged with felony aggravated sexual assault of a child; via a plea agreement, pleaded no contest to indecent contact with a child and agreed to a fine of $1,500; was sentenced in 2016 to 8 years in prison; as of March 2024, lives in San Antonio, Texas as a registered sex offender
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- Was Bishop,
- Convicted, No contest, Plea deal, Prison, Registered sex offender,
- Bryce Chatland (1968 – ) was an LDS church member in San Antonio, Texas; charged in 2023 with felony child sexual abuse
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- Was Unknown position,
- Ongoing,
- Prescott De Jean (1955 – ) was a Mormon church member and scout leader in Texas; accused of sexual abuse; convicted between 1991 and 1997 of indecency with a child by contact; victim was 6 years old at the time of the abuse; convicted in 2013 of third degree felony failure to comply with sex offender registration requirements; as of March 2024, lives in Port Lavaca, Texas as a registered sex offender
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- Convicted: 2013,
- Was Scout leader, Youth leader,
- Convicted, Prison, Probation, Registered sex offender, Violated parole/probation,
- Alleged failure to report
- John Doe was a Mormon church member; accused of sexual abuse
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- Matthew Doyle (1973 – ) was an LDS bishop in Copperas Cove, Texas (2nd Ward) in the 2000s; was a high school basketball coach; convicted in 2011 of sexual assault
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- Was Bishop, Bishopric counselor,
- Convicted,
- Alleged failure to report
- Stanley Green (1929 – 2009) was a former Mormon bishop in Athens, Texas (in or before 1998 to 1999 or later); accused of sexual abuse; convicted; died in 2009
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- Was Bishop,
- Convicted,
- Lawsuit v. LDS church, Unknown result,
- Gene Guinn (1932 – 2008) was an LDS church member in the Dallas Seventh Ward, Texas; in 2000, found guilty by a jury of indecency with a child and sentenced to 68 years in prison; the victim was 10 years old at the time of the crime; Mormon officials allegedly knew about the abuse but failed to report to police
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- Crime: 1990s,
- Places lived: Texas,
- Crime state: Texas,
- Convicted: 2000,
- Was High priest,
- Convicted, Found guilty, Jury trial, Prison,
- Alleged failure to report
- William Hanson was a Mormon youth leader in several US states; sentenced to prison for child sexual abuse; the Mormon church settled a civil lawsuit in which the victim accused it of failing to protect him
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- Was High priest, Scout leader, Youth leader,
- Convicted, Prison,
- Lawsuit v. LDS church, Settlement,
- Alleged failure to report
- Roger Hester (1956 – ) was an LDS church member in Rockwall, Texas; accused of child sexual abuse; convicted of injury to a child, elderly individual, or disabled individual with intent to cause bodily harm
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- Was Unknown position,
- Convicted, Unknown result,
- Paul Horlacher was an LDS church member; accused of sexual abuse
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- Crime: 2010s,
- Places lived: Texas,
- Crime state: Texas,
- Convicted: 2019,
- Was Unknown position,
- Convicted, Pleaded guilty, Unknown result,
- James Johannes (1982 – ) was a Mormon youth leader and US Army soldier assigned to the National Security Agency (NSA) in San Antonio, Texas; sentenced in 2017 to six years in prison for spying on two teenage sisters and recording them preparing to attend LDS seminary classes
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- Crime: 2010s,
- Places lived: Texas,
- Crime state: Texas,
- Convicted: 2017,
- Was Youth leader,
- Convicted, Prison, Registered sex offender,
- Timothy Kimball (1979 – 2023) was an LDS church member in San Antonio, Texas; charged in 2022 with child sexual abuse; died by suicide in June 2023 while awaiting indictment
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- Was Missionary, Other leader,
- Died awaiting trial, Not convicted, Suicide,
- Robert Longman was a Mormon missionary in Corpus Christi, Texas; molested a three-year old in a bedroom while two other missionaries talked with the mother; pleaded no contest to charges filed in May 1989 of indecency with a child; sentenced to eight years probation, a $1,000 fine, and required to pay $400 in court costs
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- Crime: 1980s,
- Places lived: Texas,
- Crime state: Texas,
- Was Missionary,
- Convicted, No contest, Plea deal, Probation,
- Mikel Massey was an LDS church member in Lufkin, Texas; accused of child sexual abuse; police investigated, but no charges were filed
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- Alleged crime: 2010s, 2020s,
- Places lived: Texas,
- Crime state: Texas,
- Never charged, Not convicted, Police investigation,
- Eustacio Munioz (1946 – ) was an LDS ward religious and missionary class leader in the Brownsville, Texas area; in 2011, was accused of sexually assaulting a 14-year-old boy; the victim, as an adult, filed a lawsuit against the LDS church and won
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- Alleged crime: 1990s, 2000s,
- Places lived: Texas,
- Crime state: Texas,
- Was Other leader, Youth leader,
- Unknown result,
- Judgment for plaintiff, Lawsuit v. LDS church,
- Alleged failure to report
- Ralph Neeley (1949 – 2020) was an LDS church member in the Beaumont, Texas area; was sentenced in January 1994 to life in prison in Texas for repeated sexual abuse of an 8-year-old girl in an LDS chapel during church meetings and in other locations; died in prison in 2020; the Mormon church reportedly paid several million US dollars in a settlement to the victim
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- Crime: 1980s, 1990s,
- Places lived: Arkansas, Texas,
- Crime state: Arkansas, Texas,
- Was Unknown position,
- Admitted guilt, Convicted, Prison,
- Lawsuit v. LDS church, Settlement,
- Alleged failure to report
- Carlos Rodrigues was an LDS church member in Dallas, Texas in the 1980s; convicted of sexual abuse
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- Crime: 1980s,
- Places lived: Texas,
- Crime state: Texas,
- Was Unknown position,
- Convicted,
- Alleged failure to report
- Dwayne Rogers was an LDS church member in Utah and Texas; accused of sexual abuse; convicted of aggravated sex abuse of a child
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- Convicted,
- Glen Sexton was a Mormon church member in Texas; accused of sexual abuse
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- Alleged crime: 1980s,
- Places lived: Texas,
- Crime state: Texas,
- Was Unknown position,
- Unknown result,
- Norman Smith (1935 – 2016) was an LDS church member in Texas; accused of sexual abuse
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- Was Youth leader,
- Unknown result,
- Douglas Stoddard (1949 – ) was an LDS bishop in Hurst, Texas; convicted in 1992 of a felony child sexual abuse charge of indecency with a child by contact; sentenced to 8 years of probation; a lifetime registered sex offender in Texas; named publicly in August 2023 by a victim who said Stoddard molested him and three other boys in his Mormon ward while serving as bishop
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- Crime: 1980s,
- Places lived: Texas,
- Crime state: Texas,
- Was Bishop,
- Convicted, Probation, Registered sex offender,
- Alleged failure to report
- Andrew Stringer (2005 – ) was a Mormon church member in Pflugerville, Texas; assigned by the Mormon church to a mission in Argentina, then to a service mission in Texas; arrested in 2023 and charged with possession of child pornography
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- Alleged crime: 2020s,
- Places lived: Argentina, Texas,
- Crime state: Texas,
- Was Missionary,
- Ongoing,
- Marc Turner was a former Mormon bishopric member and former Boy Scout leader in Austin, Texas; arrested in 2017 and charged with promotion of child pornography, a second-degree felony; convicted; sentenced to prison
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- Was Bishopric counselor,
- Convicted, Prison,
- Robert Westover (1972 – ) was a former LDS bishop and attorney in Dallas, Texas; arrested in 2021 for allegedly recording a minor; pleaded guilty in 2023 and sentenced to 4 years probation
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- Convicted: 2023,
- Was Bishop, Missionary,
- Convicted, Plea deal, Pleaded guilty, Probation,
- Kenneth Wilstead was an LDS church member in Garland, Texas; accused of sexual misconduct
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- Alleged crime: 2020s,
- Places lived: Texas,
- Crime state: Texas,
- Never charged, Not convicted,
- Jimmy Young (1966 – ) was a Mormon church member and scout volunteer in Texas; arrested for sexually abusing a scout in his troop
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- Alleged crime: 1980s,
- Places lived: Texas,
- Crime state: Texas,
- Was Scout leader,
- Admitted guilt, Unknown result,

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