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- Larry Deutsch was a Mormon bishop in Missouri; arrested in 2020 and charged with possession of child pornography (child sexual abuse material, or CSAM) and accused of luring an underage teenager from Arizona to Missouri; pleaded guilty; sentenced in 2021 to 12 years in federal prison plus a lifetime of supervised release; in 2024, the victim filed a civil lawsuit against the LDS church
Church officials allegedly failed to report abuse
- Criminal case(s): Convicted, Pleaded guilty, Prison, Probation,
- Civil lawsuit(s): Lawsuit v. LDS church, Ongoing,
- Church positions: Bishop, Scout leader, Sunday school, Temple worker, Youth leader,
- Convicted: 2021,
- Crime scenes: LDS building, Online,
- Victims: 1 victim,
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Born: 1966
- Mission: unknown
- Places lived: Arizona, Maricopa County (Arizona), Missouri,
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- Adam Dimond was an LDS church member and dancer in Farmington, Utah; pleaded guilty in 2020 to a second-degree felony charge of enticing a minor by Internet or text; sentenced to 40 days in jail and 4 years of probation
- Criminal case(s): Convicted, Jail, Plea agreement, Pleaded guilty, Probation,
- Church positions: Missionary,
- Convicted: 2020,
- Victims: 1 victim,
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Born: 1987
- Mission: 2006-2008 Unknown country
- Places lived: Utah,
- Latest update: 2023: registered sex offender; lives in Lehi, Utah
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- Edwin Dyer was a Mormon church member and scoutmaster in central Oregon; accused of sexual abuse; allegedly molested as many as 15 boys over a 28-year period; shot and killed in 1986 by one of his victims; the Mormon church settled out of court for $200,000 with one victim
Church officials allegedly failed to report abuse
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LDS church payment: $200,000
Church discipline: Disfellowshipped,
- Church officials asked Dyer to resign as scoutmaster and later disfellowshipped him, but did not tell police
- "Until we use names, until people understand that this happened to Johnny next door, it will keep on happening."
- Criminal case(s): Convicted, Jail, Probation,
- Civil lawsuit(s): Lawsuit v. LDS church, Settlement,
- Church positions: Scout leader,
- Victims: 10 or more victims, Multiple victims,
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Born: 1935
Died: 1986 - Mission: unknown
- Places lived: Oregon,
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- Timur Dykes was a Mormon church member and scout leader in Portland, Oregon; accused of sexual abuse; convicted multiple times; in 1987, three plaintiffs sued the Mormon church and the Boy Scouts of America; in about 2009, the Mormon church paid $350,000 to a victim to settle its portion of a civil lawsuit
Church officials allegedly failed to report abuse
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LDS church payment: $350,000
- Criminal case(s): Convicted, Jail, Probation,
- Civil lawsuit(s): Lawsuit v. LDS church, Settlement,
- Church positions: Scout leader,
- Victims: 10 or more victims, Multiple victims,
- Mission: no
- Places lived: Oregon,
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- Jay Elggren was a Mormon church member in Salt Lake County, Utah; accused of sexual abuse; convicted; sentenced to jail and probation
- Criminal case(s): Convicted, Jail, Probation,
- Civil lawsuit(s): No civil case,
- Convicted: 2017,
- Crime scenes: Online,
- Victims: Multiple victims, Unknown number of victims,
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Born: 1972
- Mission: unknown
- Places lived: Salt Lake County (Utah), Utah,
- Latest update: is a registered sex offender, lives in Salt Lake City, Utah
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- Dennis Empey was a Mormon church member and scout leader in Blackfoot, Idaho; accused of sexually abusing many children; his stake president allegedly knew Empey was abusing kids; convicted of child molestation in May 1991; sentenced to two years probation
Church officials allegedly failed to report abuse
- Criminal case(s): Convicted, Probation,
- Church positions: Scout leader,
- Crime scenes: LDS building,
- Victims: 10 or more victims, Multiple victims, Unknown number of victims,
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Born: 1957
- Mission: no
- Places lived: Idaho,
- Latest update: 2023: lives in Driggs, Idaho
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- Matthew Faerber was an LDS church member and high school choir director in Murray, Utah; pleaded guilty in 1990 or 1991 to two counts of attempted sexual abuse of a child; sentenced in February 1991 to six months in jail (two of those months under house arrest) followed by three years of supervised release
- Criminal case(s): Convicted, Jail, Probation, Released,
- Church positions: Missionary,
- Victims: 4 victims, Multiple victims,
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Born: 1962
- Mission: 1981-1982 Brazil Brazil Porto Alegre
- Places lived: Salt Lake County (Utah), Utah,
- Latest update: 2023: not a registered sex offender; lives in Duluth, Minnesota
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- Matthew Felshaw was a Mormon church member in Caldwell, Idaho; charged with sexually assaulting a young child; took a plea deal and was convicted of Injury to child; received suspended prison sentence and 8 years probation and has to register as a sex offender
- Criminal case(s): Convicted, Probation, Registered sex offender,
- Convicted: 2024,
- Victims: 1 victim,
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Born: 1980
- Mission: unknown
- Places lived: Idaho, Nevada,
- Latest update: no current registration on Idaho Sex offender list as of 2024-04-10
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- Richard Fowler was a Mormon church member in Sandpoint, Idaho; pleaded guilty to two felony counts of Children-Lewd Conduct with Child Under 16 in 20
- Criminal case(s): Convicted, Jail, Pleaded guilty, Probation,
- Civil lawsuit(s): No civil case,
- Convicted: 2020,
- Crime scenes: Unknown crime scene,
- Victims: 2 victims, Multiple victims,
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Born: 1944
- Mission: unknown
- Places lived: Idaho,
- Latest update: is a registered sex offender living in Post Falls, Idaho
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- Jeffrey Fox was a former state legislator (1977-1982) in Utah; convicted federally for possession of child sexual abuse material (CSAM) in 2013 and placed on probation for 15 years; in 2019, probation was terminated for completing terms; in 2022, arrested and charged in Utah with 8 counts of sexual exploitation of a minor; case dismissed without prejudice due to a federal charge
- Criminal case(s): Convicted, Ongoing, Pleaded guilty, Probation,
- Civil lawsuit(s): No civil case,
- Convicted: 2013,
- Crime scenes: Online,
- Victims: Multiple victims,
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Born: 1947
- Mission: unknown
- Places lived: Utah,
- Latest update: 2022: Utah case dismissed without prejudice due to a federal charge
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- Ryan Frandsen was an LDS church member and fireman in Davis County, Utah; pleaded guilty in 2010 to five counts of lewdness involving a child; child sexual abuse material (CSAM) was found on his computer; sentenced in 2010 to 90 days in jail and three years of probation
- Criminal case(s): Convicted, Jail, Plea agreement, Pleaded guilty, Probation,
- Convicted: 2010,
- Victims: Unknown number of victims,
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Born: 1976
- Mission: unknown
- Places lived: Davis County (Utah), Utah,
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- Michael Fritchen was a Mormon church member in Utah; sentenced to prison in the 1990s and again in 2011 for child sexual abuse
- Criminal case(s): Convicted, Prison, Probation, Registered sex offender,
- Church positions: Unknown position,
- Convicted: 2011,
- Victims: Multiple victims, Unknown number of victims,
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Born: 1955
- Mission: unknown
- Places lived: Utah,
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- Francis Fuller was a Mormon bishop in Highland, Utah in 1993; also was a stake high council member in Utah; in 2018 or 2019, pleaded guilty to two second degree felony counts of child sexual abuse; sentenced in 2019 in Utah to two years in jail and four years probation; registered sex offender
- Criminal case(s): Convicted, Jail, Plea agreement, Pleaded guilty, Probation, Registered sex offender,
- Church positions: Bishop, Missionary, Stake high council,
- Convicted: 2019,
- Victims: 2 victims, Multiple victims,
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Born: 1940
- Mission: Australia Australia [unknown]
- Places lived: Australia, Utah,
- Latest update: May 2023: registered sex offender living in Washington, Utah
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- Rex Furness was a former Idaho state senator and Mormon bishop in Idaho; in 1996, pleaded guilty to sexual battery for fondling an underage girl; was sentenced to 60 days in jail; given a withheld judgment: if he did not violate the terms of his probation, the felony conviction would be kept from his record
Church officials allegedly failed to report abuse
- Criminal case(s): Convicted, Plea agreement, Pleaded guilty, Probation, Withheld judgment,
- Church positions: Bishop,
- Victims: 1 victim,
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Born: 1923
Died: 2005 - Mission: no
- Places lived: Idaho,
- Latest update: 2005: died
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- William Gillespie was an LDS church member in Montgomery, Alabama; accused of reaching inside the swimsuits of two girls and fondling them in his backyard pool in 1987; convicted in 1988 of three charges of first-degree sexual abuse and sentenced to one year in prison, plus four years of probation; conviction was reversed on appeal, then upheld; was allegedly excommunicated from the Mormon church
Church officials allegedly failed to report abuse
Church discipline: Excommunicated,
- Criminal case(s): Convicted, Overturned/reversed, Prison, Probation, Unknown result,
- Civil lawsuit(s): No civil case,
- Church positions: Unknown position,
- Crime scenes: Perpetrator's home,
- Victims: 2 victims, Multiple victims,
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Born: 1936
- Mission: no
- Places lived: Alabama,
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- Stephen Goode was a Mormon church member in Gresham, Oregon; arrested in 2019 and accused of sexually abusing a child during a trip in 2018; in 2022, found guilty in a jury trial of four felony charges; sentenced to 8.5 years in prison and 20 years supervision
- Criminal case(s): Convicted, Found guilty, Jury trial, Prison, Probation,
- Church positions: Missionary,
- Convicted: 2022,
- Crime scenes: Recreational trip/outing,
- Victims: 1 victim,
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Born: 1981
- Mission: 2002-2004 Philippines Philippines Ilagan Mission
- Places lived: Oregon,
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- Shawn Gooden was an LDS bishop in Lebanon, Pennsylvania from 2016-2020; arrested in 2022 and charged with sexual abuse of two children in Virginia from 1997-2000; pleaded guilty in July 2023 in Virginia to four felony counts; sentenced in November 2023 in Virginia to prison time and supervised probation on release; charged in July 2023 in Pennsylvania with more child sex abuse charges
Church officials allegedly failed to report abuse
- Criminal case(s): Convicted, Ongoing, Plea agreement, Pleaded guilty, Prison, Probation,
- Civil lawsuit(s): No civil case,
- Church positions: Bishop, Scout leader, Stake high council, Stake presidency counselor, Youth leader,
- Convicted: 2023,
- Crime scenes: Recreational trip/outing,
- Victims: 2 victims, Multiple victims,
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Born: 1974
- Mission: United States Ohio Cleveland (Spanish speaking)
- Places lived: Pennsylvania, Virginia,
- Latest update: November 2023: sentenced in Virginia to up to 5 years in prison after pleading guilty to four felony counts; faces more charges in Pennsylvania
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- Cory Grint was a Mormon church member in Vernal, Utah; pleaded guilty to lewdness involving a child; sentenced to 364 days in jail, with a suspended jail sentence of 364 days and 36 months of probation; as of 2025, lives in Vernal, Utah as a registered sex offender
- Criminal case(s): Convicted, Jail, Plea agreement, Pleaded guilty, Probation, Registered sex offender,
- Crime: 2014, in Utah,
- Convicted: 2022,
- Victims: 1 victim,
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Born: 1982
- Mission: unknown
- Places lived: Utah,
- Latest update: Found guilty in 2022 of LEWDNESS INVOLVING A CHILD a Class A Misdemeanor; is a registered sex offender living in Vernal, Utah.
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- Jeffrey Head was an LDS bishop in Draper, Utah; committed sex crimes while serving as a Mormon bishop; in 2019, a jury found him guilty of attempted forcible sexual abuse, two counts of lewdness and sexual battery; sentenced to four months in jail and four years of probation
Church officials allegedly failed to report abuse
- Criminal case(s): Convicted, Found guilty, Jail, Jury trial, Probation, Registered sex offender, Released,
- Church positions: Bishop, Bishopric counselor, Missionary, Youth leader,
- Convicted: 2019,
- Victims: 3 victims, Multiple victims,
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Born: 1964
- Mission: 1983-1985 United States Missouri St. Louis
- Places lived: Missouri, Utah,
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- Vance Hein was an LDS church member and scoutmaster in West Bradford, Pennsylvania; was convicted in 1999 of a misdemeanor for sexually abusing one of his boy scouts; sentenced in 2000 to 15 years of probation; arrested in 2011 for possessing child pornography; sentenced in 2012 to 15 to 30 years in prison; the Mormon church settled a related lawsuit in 2014
Church officials allegedly failed to report abuse
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LDS church payment: Undisclosed amount
- Criminal case(s): Convicted, Prison, Probation,
- Civil lawsuit(s): Lawsuit v. LDS church, Settlement,
- Church positions: Scout leader,
- Convicted: 1999, 2000, 2012,
- Crime scenes: Perpetrator's home, Recreational trip/outing, Scout activity,
- Victims: Multiple victims, Unknown number of victims,
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Born: 1951
- Mission: unknown
- Places lived: Canada, Pennsylvania,
- Latest update: 2012: sentenced to 15 to 30 years in prison for possessing child pornography
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