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Thomas Eugene Dawkins
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- was an LDS church member in Columbia, South Carolina; accused of sexual abuse; convicted in 1986; the conviction was later overturned.
- Criminal: Convicted, Overturned/reversed,
- Victims: 1 victim,
- Crime scenes: LDS church activity,
- Crime: 1980s, in South Carolina,
- Convicted: 1980s,
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William W Gillespie
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Alleged coverup- was an LDS church member in Alabama; accused of sexual abuse; convicted; conviction was reversed on appeal.
- Criminal: Convicted, Overturned/reversed, Unknown result,
- Victims: Multiple victims, Unknown number of victims,
- Crime: 1980s, in Alabama,
- Convicted: 1980s,
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Thad Andrew Jesperson
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- was an LDS church member in Murietta, California; accused of sexually abusing 8 of his elementary students at Toler Elementary School.
- Criminal: Convicted, Overturned/reversed,
- Victims: 8 victims, Multiple victims,
- Crime scenes: Victim's school,
- Crime: 2000s, in California,
- Convicted: 2000s, 2003, 2004,
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John Edward Parkinson
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- Alleged coverup
- was a Mormon stake president (1981-1991) and physician in Fairfield, California; sentenced to prison in 1997 for sexually abusing two female patients, but the judge delayed the sentence pending an appeal; his conviction was later reversed.
- Criminal: Convicted, Jury trial, Overturned/reversed, Prison,
- Victims: 10 or more victims, Multiple victims,
- Crime scenes: Perpetrator's workplace,
- Crime: 1980s, 1990s, in California,
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Phillip Kowalewski Rimmasch
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- was a Mormon church member and scout leader in Utah in the 1980s; had a 50-plus year career as a mortician; convicted of child sexual abuse; on appeal, the Utah Supreme Court ordered a new trial in 1989.
- Criminal: Convicted, Overturned/reversed,
- Victims: Unknown number of victims,
- Crime: 1980s, in Utah,
- Convicted: 1980s,
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Homer Lewis Van Matre
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- was an LDS church member in Salt Lake County, Utah; found guilty of sexual abuse of child and sodomy on a child and charges were reversed in appeal when child recanted her story.
- Criminal: Convicted, Overturned/reversed,
- Victims: 1 victim,
- Crime: 1980s, in Salt Lake County (Utah), Utah,
- Convicted: 1980s,
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