Location Accused: Australia

9 matching Mormon sex abuse cases

- Joseph Atwater was an LDS church member in Australia; pleaded guilty in 2005 to trafficking and kidnapping
- Criminal case(s): Convicted,
- Church positions: Unknown position,
- Convicted: 2005,
- Victims: 1 victim,
- Born: 1954
- Mission: no
- Places lived: Australia,
- Places when accused: Australia,
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- Christopher Bartle was a Mormon church member in Perth, Western Australia; accused of sexual abuse of four girls that allegedly took place between 1998 and 2007
- Criminal case(s): Ongoing,
- Church positions: Unknown position,
- Victims: 4 victims, Multiple victims,
- Born: 1960
- Mission: unknown
- Places lived: Australia,
- Places when accused: Australia,
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- John Doe was an LDS church member in Queensland, Australia; accused of sexual abuse
- Church officials allegedly failed to report abuse
- Criminal case(s): Never charged, Not convicted,
- Civil lawsuit(s): Lawsuit v. LDS church,
- Church positions: Other leader,
- Victims: 1 victim,
- Mission: unknown
- Places lived: Australia,
- Places when accused: Australia,
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- Keith McDowall was a Mormon church member in Canberra, Australia; accused of sexual abuse of relatives, including an infant
- Church officials allegedly failed to report abuse
- Criminal case(s): Never charged, Not convicted,
- Victims: 5 victims, Multiple victims,
- Born: 1925
  Died: 2018
- Mission: unknown
- Places lived: Australia,
- Places when accused: Australia,
- Latest update: died 2018-07-14
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- Ronald Mills was an LDS church member in Orange, New South Wales, Australia; accused of sexual abuse; convicted; sentenced in or around 1982 to 3 years in jail
- Criminal case(s): Convicted, Jail,
- Civil lawsuit(s): No civil case,
- Church positions: Unknown position,
- Crime: Unknown crime year, in Australia,
- Crime scenes: LDS building,
- Victims: 1 victim,
- Mission: no
- Places lived: Australia,
- Places when accused: Australia,
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- Geoffrey Powell was an LDS bishop in Western Australia; accused of sexually abusing a seven-year-old girl in his ward; the alleged abuse took place while he was a bishop; the victim twice complained to the LDS church, but said she was not believed and was chastised, and it was suggested she should move away if she felt uncomfortable; in 2019, he was sentenced to 12 months in jail
- Church officials allegedly failed to report abuse
- Criminal case(s): Convicted, Jail,
- Civil lawsuit(s): No civil case,
- Church positions: Bishop,
- Convicted: 2019,
- Victims: 1 victim,
- Born: 1947
- Mission: unknown
- Places lived: Australia,
- Places when accused: Australia,
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- Philip Salt was an LDS church member in Perth, Western Australia; accused in April 2023 of 16 charges of sexual abuse against two teenage male victims he met as their LDS youth leader
- Criminal case(s): Ongoing,
- Church positions: Youth leader,
- Victims: 2 victims, Multiple victims,
- Born: 1989
- Mission: unknown
- Places lived: Australia,
- Places when accused: Australia,
- Latest update: June 2023: Moving through the trial process in Perth, Australia
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- Murray Stubbs was a Mormon church member in Canberra ACT Australia; accused of grooming a child using the internet because of sexually explicit texts; was found guilty of using the internet in an offensive way
- Church officials allegedly failed to report abuse
- Criminal case(s): Convicted,
- Crime: 2007, 2008, in Australia,
- Convicted: 2008,
- Crime scenes: internet,
- Victims: 1 victim,
- Born: 1965
- Mission: unknown
- Places lived: Australia,
- Places when accused: Australia,
- Latest update: was tried in court over sexually explicit texts with a minor; was found guilty of using the internet in an offensive way
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- Orson Wright was a Mormon mission president in Sydney, Australia from 1978 to 1980; accused of grooming some of the sister missionaries in his care to be his polygamous wives; removed early from his mission assignment; LDS church leaders in Salt Lake City, Utah allegedly covered up the reasons for Wright's removal
- Church officials allegedly failed to report abuse
- Criminal case(s): Never charged, Not convicted,
- Civil lawsuit(s): No civil case,
- Church positions: Bishop, Bishopric counselor, Branch president, Mission president, Missionary, Stake high council, Temple worker,
- Crime scenes: Unknown crime scene,
- Victims: Multiple victims,
- Born: 1928
  Died: 2017
- Mission: Australia Australia [unknown]
- Places lived: Australia,
- Places when accused: Australia,
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