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Thomas Eugene Dawkins
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- AKA Gene Dawkins
- Latest update: 2023: lives in South Carolina
- Victims: 1 victim,
LDS positions: Sunday school teacher,
- LDS mission:
unknown
- Criminal case: Convicted, Overturned/reversed,
- He was an LDS church member in Columbia, South Carolina; accused of sexual abuse; convicted in 1986; the conviction was later overturned.
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William W Gillespie
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- LDS mission:
no
Leaders allegedly hid sex crimes
- Criminal case: Convicted, Overturned/reversed, Unknown,
- The accused was an LDS church member in Alabama; accused of sexual abuse; convicted; conviction was reversed on appeal.
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Thad Andrew Jesperson
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- Latest update: Conviction reversed
- Victims: 8 victims,
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Born: 1964
- LDS mission:
Unknown country - Somewhere in South America
- Criminal case: Convicted, Overturned/reversed,
- The accused was an LDS church member in Murietta, California; accused of sexually abusing 8 of his elementary students at Toler Elementary School.
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John Edward Parkinson
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- AKA John E. Parkinson
- Latest update: 2024: lives in Fairfield, California
- Victims: 10 or more victims, Multiple victims,
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Born: 1931
LDS positions: Stake presidency counselor, Stake president, Sunday school teacher,
- LDS mission:
unknown
Leaders allegedly hid sex crimes
- Criminal case: Convicted, Jury trial, Overturned/reversed, Prison,
- He 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.
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Phillip Kowalewski Rimmasch
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- AKA Phil Rimmasch
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Born: 1937
Died: 2009
LDS positions: Scout leader,
- LDS mission:
unknown
- Criminal case: Convicted, Overturned/reversed,
- The accused 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.
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Homer Lewis Van Matre
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- Latest update: Died 2017; Guilty charges of sexual abuse of child and sodomy on a child were reversed from the original court hearing in 1984
- Victims: 1 victim,
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Born: 1947
Died: 2017
- LDS mission:
no
- Criminal case: Convicted, Overturned/reversed,
- The accused 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.
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