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39 matching Mormon sex abuse cases

Criminal case result: Admitted guilt

- Franklin Mathias was a Mormon church member and Boy scout leader in Oregon; had a career as a schoolteacher; accused in 1987 of sexual abuse; sentenced in 1988 to four years in prison for molesting a child; he said that he had 242 victims over a 30-year period
- Criminal case(s): Admitted guilt, Convicted, Prison,
- Civil lawsuit(s): Unknown result,
- Church positions: Scout leader,
- Crime scenes: Scout activity,
- Victims: 10 or more victims, 100 or more victims, Multiple victims,
- Mission: no
- Places lived: Oregon,
- Places when accused: Oregon,
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- David McConkie was a Mormon bishop (approximately 2013-16), stake president (2016-21) and deputy district attorney in Colorado; paternal grandson of Mormon apostle Bruce R. McConkie; arrested in 2023 and charged with felony sexual assault on a child by someone in a position of trust; allegedly confessed child sexual assault to a Mormon church leader in 2008; in July 2025, sentenced to five years probation
- Church officials allegedly failed to report abuse
- Criminal case(s): Admitted guilt, Convicted, Plea agreement, Pleaded guilty, Probation,
- Civil lawsuit(s): No civil case,
- Church positions: Bishop, Bishopric counselor, Missionary, Scout leader, Stake president, Youth leader,
- Crime scenes: Perpetrator's home, Victim's home,
- Victims: 3 victims, Multiple victims,
- Born: 1978
- Mission: 1997-1999 Bolivia Bolivia Cochabamba
- Places lived: Bolivia, Colorado, Utah, Virginia,
- Places when accused: Colorado,
- Documents available: yes (contact us to request)
- Latest update: July 2025: sentenced to five years probation
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- Calvin McGee was an LDS missionary in Virginia in 2022; accused of soliciting sexually explicit pictures and video from a person he believed to be an 11-year-old girl, and inviting her to meet in person; arrested in Boise, Idaho in July 2023 and accused of rape of a minor; pleaded guilty to two charges related to child sexual abuse; sentenced in May 2024 to three to 25 years in prison
- Church officials allegedly failed to report abuse
- Criminal case(s): Admitted guilt, Convicted, Ongoing, Plea agreement, Pleaded guilty, Prison,
- Church positions: Missionary,
- Convicted: 2024,
- Victims: 2 victims, Multiple victims,
- Born: 2002
- Mission: United States
- Places lived: Idaho, Virginia,
- Places when accused: Idaho, Virginia,
- Latest update: May 2024: sentenced in Idaho to three to 25 years in prison
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- Bill McKay was an LDS church member and mayor of Kennewick, Washington; admitted in 2023 to police he paid for sexual services at multiple massage parlors in Kennewick; was not criminally charged
- Criminal case(s): Admitted guilt, Never charged, Not convicted,
- Civil lawsuit(s): No civil case,
- Church positions: Unknown position,
- Victims: Multiple victims, Unknown number of victims,
- Mission: unknown
- Places lived: Washington,
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- Shawn Mortensen was a former Mormon bishop and stake presidency member in Albuquerque, New Mexico; in February 2021, admitted to police that he had sexually abused an 11-year-old girl in January 2021; convicted of child sexual abuse; sentenced in 2022 to prison in New Mexico
- Criminal case(s): Admitted guilt, Convicted, Plea agreement, Pleaded guilty, Prison,
- Civil lawsuit(s): No civil case,
- Church positions: Bishop, Bishopric counselor, Other leader,
- Convicted: 2022,
- Crime scenes: Perpetrator's home, Victim's home,
- Victims: 1 victim,
- Born: 1965
- Mission: unknown
- Places lived: New Mexico, Provo (Utah), Utah, Utah County (Utah),
- Places when accused: New Mexico,
- Documents available: yes (contact us to request)
- Latest update: September 2022: sentenced to prison in New Mexico for child sexual abuse
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- Gerald Mortimer was an OB/GYN doctor in Idaho and former Mormon temple president and mission president in the Philippines; admitted in 2019 to secretly using his sperm to artificially inseminate multiple women; a civil suit against him was dismissed with prejudice in 2021, possibly because of a private settlement agreement
- Criminal case(s): Admitted guilt, Never charged, Not convicted,
- Civil lawsuit(s): Dismissed with prejudice,
- Church positions: Mission president, Missionary, Temple president,
- Crime scenes: Perpetrator's workplace,
- Victims: Multiple victims, Unknown number of victims,
- Born: 1943
- Mission: 1962-1964 United States North Central States (including time in Ontario, Canada)
- Places lived: Idaho, Philippines,
- Places when accused: Idaho,
- Latest update: 2021: civil lawsuit dismissed with prejudice
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- Steven Murdock was a Mormon stake high council member and former LDS bishop in Holladay, Salt Lake County, Utah; allegedly sexually harassed multiple women in his ward while he was their bishop (he was bishop from 2013 to 2017); in 2019, was caught taking photos of a young woman in a dressing room in Tennessee; pleaded guilty in November 2019; sentenced in 2019 to one year probation, 48 hours community service
- Church officials allegedly failed to report abuse
- Criminal case(s): Admitted guilt, Community service, Convicted, Plea agreement, Pleaded guilty, Probation, Released,
- Civil lawsuit(s): No civil case,
- Church positions: Bishop, Stake high council,
- Convicted: 2019,
- Crime scenes: Public, Recreational trip/outing,
- Victims: Multiple victims, Unknown number of victims,
- Born: 1963
- Mission: unknown
- Places lived: Salt Lake County (Utah), Tennessee, Utah,
- Latest update: 2019: sentenced in Tennessee to one year of supervised probation and 48 hours of community service, and ordered to undergo counseling
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- Ralph Neeley 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
- Church officials allegedly failed to report abuse
- LDS church payment: $3,000,000
- Church discipline: Excommunicated,
- Criminal case(s): Admitted guilt, Convicted, Prison,
- Civil lawsuit(s): Lawsuit v. LDS church, Settlement,
- Church positions: Unknown position,
- Crime scenes: LDS building,
- Victims: 1 victim,
- Born: 1949
  Died: 2020
- Mission: no
- Places lived: Arkansas, Texas,
- Latest update: 2020: died of COVID-19 in Texas while serving life in prison
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- David O'Connor was an LDS church member and high school wrestling coach in Tacoma, Washington; convicted of sexual abuse in 1977; once reportedly confessed his sexual abuse in an LDS sacrament meeting; in 2021, a victim sued the Mormon church
- Church officials allegedly failed to report abuse
- Criminal case(s): Admitted guilt, Convicted, Unknown result,
- Civil lawsuit(s): Lawsuit v. LDS church, Unknown result,
- Church positions: Scout leader,
- Victims: 3 victims, Multiple victims,
- Born: 1953
- Mission: no
- Places lived: Washington,
- Latest update: May 2023: a $9.5 million settlement case involved O'Connor; the Washington school district where he had worked agreed to pay $9.5 million to three of his alleged victims
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- Patrick Oliphant was a Mormon missionary from Carlsbad, New Mexico who was serving a mission in Michigan in 2013; reportedly turned himself in for sexual abuse of a child he was babysitting; charged with six counts of criminal sexual penetration of a minor and three counts of criminal sexual contact with a minor; convicted in 2015 of nine felony charges
- Criminal case(s): Admitted guilt, Convicted, Unknown result,
- Church positions: Missionary,
- Crime: 2012, in New Mexico,
- Convicted: 2015,
- Victims: 1 victim,
- Born: 1992
- Mission: 2013-2013 United States Michigan [unknown city]
- Places lived: Michigan, New Mexico,
- Places when accused: New Mexico,
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- Eric Olsen was an LDS church member and schoolteacher in Bakersfield, California; admitted to Ontario, California police that he had sexually abused between 200 to 300 girls, with as many as 30 victims in Kern County; convicted in 2007 in California of 6 felony counts of child sexual abuse; sentenced to five years in prison; lifetime registered sex offender; as of 2023, lives in Brigham City, Utah
- Criminal case(s): Admitted guilt, Convicted, Prison, Registered sex offender,
- Church positions: Unknown position,
- Crime: Unknown crime year, in California,
- Convicted: 2007,
- Crime scenes: Perpetrator's workplace, Victim's school,
- Victims: 10 or more victims, 100 or more victims, Multiple victims,
- Born: 1977
- Mission: unknown
- Places lived: California, Utah,
- Places when accused: California,
- Latest update: 2007: convicted in California of six felony counts of child sex abuse; 2023: registered sex offender, lives in Brigham City, Utah
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- Ryan Pugh was a former Mormon missionary and BYU-Idaho student in Rexburg, Idaho; arrested and charged in 2024 with sharing child sexual abuse material (CSAM) online
- Criminal case(s): Admitted guilt, Ongoing,
- Church positions: Missionary,
- Crime scenes: Online,
- Victims: Multiple victims, Unknown number of victims,
- Mission: 2019-2021 United States Minnesota Minneapolis (Spanish speaking)
- Places lived: Idaho, Minnesota,
- Places when accused: Idaho,
- Latest update: March 2024: charged in Idaho with sharing child sexual abuse material (CSAM) online
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- Jason Smith was an LDS church member in Indiana; in 2019, confessed to sexually abusing a child; pleaded guilty and was sentenced in 2021 to 728 days of probation for battery against a child under 14 years old
- Church discipline: No action,
- Criminal case(s): Admitted guilt, Convicted, Probation,
- Church positions: Unknown position,
- Convicted: 2021,
- Victims: 1 victim,
- Born: 1970
- Mission: unknown
- Places lived: Indiana,
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- Peter Taylor was a Mormon church member in Washington; confessed to sexual abuse of his two underage stepdaughters; convicted; Mormon church lost a civil lawsuit and was court ordered to pay the victims $2.5 million; the church appealed and the amount was reduced to $1.2 million
- Church officials allegedly failed to report abuse
- LDS church payment: $1,200,000
- Criminal case(s): Admitted guilt, Convicted, Pleaded guilty,
- Civil lawsuit(s): Judgment for plaintiff, Lawsuit v. LDS church, Settlement,
- Church positions: Unknown position,
- Convicted: 2001,
- Victims: 2 victims, Multiple victims,
- Mission: unknown
- Places lived: Washington,
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- Robert Tubbs was an LDS scout leader in Slaterville, Weber County, Utah; admitted he told a Mormon bishop in the early 1970s he had molested multiple boys; Tubbs said the bishop kept the abuse secret; nearly 20 years passed and Tubbs molested others; in the 1990s, Tubbs pleaded guilty to child sexual abuse charges; sentenced to six years to life in prison; paroled in 2000; violated parole; released in 2008
- Church officials allegedly failed to report abuse
- Criminal case(s): Admitted guilt, Convicted, Parole, Prison, Released, Violated parole/probation,
- Civil lawsuit(s): No civil case,
- Church positions: Scout leader,
- Crime scenes: Scout activity,
- Victims: 10 or more victims, Multiple victims,
- Born: 1952
- Mission: 1971-1973 Japan Japan [unknown city]
- Places lived: Utah,
- Latest update: 2008: released from prison
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- Thomas Wallin was a Mormon church member in South Jordan, Utah; admitted to sexually abusing a child within an LDS chapel; in 2022, sentenced to 18 years in prison
- Criminal case(s): Admitted guilt, Convicted,
- Civil lawsuit(s): No civil case,
- Church positions: Unknown position,
- Convicted: 2022,
- Crime scenes: LDS building,
- Victims: Multiple victims,
- Born: 1999
- Mission: unknown
- Places lived: Salt Lake County (Utah), Utah,
- Latest update: Is a registered sex offender in Utah
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- LaVar Withers was a Mormon and physician in Rexburg, Idaho; accused of sexually abusing at least 133 women and children as young as 13 years old over a period of 30 or more years; admitted to sexual abuse; in 1996, pleaded guilty to misdemeanor battery; sentenced to 30 to 60 days in jail and two years probation; the Mormon church placed him on probation and took his temple recommend; died in 2005
- Church officials allegedly failed to report abuse
- Criminal case(s): Admitted guilt, Convicted, Jail, Plea agreement, Pleaded guilty, Probation,
- Civil lawsuit(s): No civil case,
- Church positions: Bishopric counselor, Stake high council,
- Crime scenes: Health appointment,
- Victims: 10 or more victims, 100 or more victims, Multiple victims,
- Born: 1936
  Died: 2005
- Mission: no
- Places lived: Idaho, Rexburg (Idaho),
- Latest update: 2005: died
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- Chauncey Worthley was a former LDS bishop in Orange County, California; admitted to sexual abuse and had his foster parent license taken away
- Criminal case(s): Admitted guilt, Never charged, Not convicted,
- Church positions: Bishop,
- Alleged crime: Unknown crime year, in California,
- Victims: 1 victim,
- Born: 1931
  Died: 1998
- Mission: unknown
- Places lived: California,
- Places when accused: California,
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- Jimmy Young was a Mormon church member and scout volunteer in Texas; arrested for sexually abusing a scout in his troop
- Criminal case(s): Admitted guilt, Unknown result,
- Church positions: Scout leader,
- Victims: 1 victim,
- Born: 1966
- Mission: no
- Places lived: Texas,
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