Location Crime: Australia

25 matching Mormon sex abuse cases

Crime location: Australia

- Geoffrey Ashdown was a Mormon church member in Australia; accused of sexual abuse
- Joseph Atwater was an LDS church member in Australia; pleaded guilty in 2005 to trafficking and kidnapping
- 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
- Bret Chesworth was a Mormon church member in Australia; pleaded guilty to 7 charges of child abuse and bestiality including downloading images; he was caught in an international sting operation involving Australian and US agencies
- Gordon Crawford was an LDS church member in Australia; accused of sexual abuse
- Church discipline: Excommunicated,
- John Doe was an LDS church member in Adelaide, Australia; sentenced in 2021 to 10 years in prison for child sexual abuse
- John Doe was an LDS church member in Ipswich, Australia; accused of sexual abuse; convicted; sentenced to 7 years in jail
- John Doe was an LDS church member in Brisbane, Australia; accused of child sexual abuse; convicted and sentenced to 15 months in jail
- John Doe was an LDS church member in Australia; accused of sexual abuse; convicted; in 2018, sentenced to nearly 20 years in prison
- John Doe was an LDS church member in Australia; accused of sexual abuse
- Church officials allegedly failed to report abuse
- John Doe was an LDS church member in Queensland, Australia; accused of sexual abuse
- Church officials allegedly failed to report abuse
- Jane Doe was an LDS church member in Australia; accused of sexual abuse
- Nicolas Faivre was a former LDS bishop in Australia; charged with sending sexually explicit messages to a child
- William Harding was a Mormon branch president, elders quorum president and ward clerk in Tasmania and Queensland, Australia; charged in or before 2023 with multiple counts of sexual assault of a minor in two states in Australia; allegedly had as many as 40 victims; in 2024, pleaded guilty to reduced charges and was sentenced to 9 months in jail in Brisbane; in 2025, faced new charges in Tasmania
- Church officials allegedly failed to report abuse
- Church discipline: Church position after confession/conviction, Excommunicated, Release from Mormon church position,
- Caleb Horner was an LDS church member in Melbourne, Australia; arrested in November 2021 and accused of sexually assaulting a 14-year-old boy he met in 2020; found guilty in 2024 of two counts of sexual assault by touch of a child under 16; sentenced in October 2024 to three years "community corrections," avoiding additional jail time
- Church discipline: Excommunicated,
- Stephen Kay was a Mormon church member, school teacher and scout leader in Brisbane, Australia; charged multiple times with child sexual abuse; pleaded guilty in 1996 and was sentenced to jail
- Daphney Matthews was a Mormon church member in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia; accused of sexual abuse
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- Darran Scott was a Mormon church member and filmmaker in Archies Creek, Victoria, Australia; pleaded guilty in 2017 to 16 charges related to the sexual abuse of 11 boys over a 25-year period; sentenced in 2017 to 10 years in prison
- 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
- Ruecha Tokputza was an LDS church member in Australia; accused of sexual abuse
- 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

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