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Erik Wayne Hughes
- AKA Bishop Hughes
- Latest update: July 2023: out on parole
- Victims: 2 victims, Multiple victims,
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Born: 1966
- LDS positions: Bishop, Church employee, Missionary,
- LDS mission: United States - California Anaheim 1985-1987
- Criminal case: Convicted, Parole, Prison, Registered sex offender, Released,
- Civil case: No civil case,
- He was a Mormon bishop in Mapleton, Utah and a Mormon church senior product manager when he sexually abused two underage children in his LDS ward dozens of times; was sentenced to prison in 2017; released in 2023; as of 2024, registered sex offender living in Utah.
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