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Joseph Carlton Atwater
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Bret Anthony Chesworth
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- 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.
- Criminal: Convicted, Pleaded guilty, Unknown result,
- Victims: Unknown number of victims,
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Gordon Terrence Crawford
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- was an LDS church member in Australia; accused of sexual abuse.
- Criminal: Unknown result,
- Civil: No civil case,
- Victims: Unknown number of victims,
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John Doe
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John Doe
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Alleged coverup- was an LDS church member in Australia; accused of sexual abuse.
- Criminal: Never charged, Not convicted,
- Civil: No civil case,
- Victims: 1 victim,
- Crime scenes: LDS church building,
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John Doe
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- Alleged coverup
- was an LDS church member; accused of sexual abuse.
- Criminal: Never charged, Not convicted,
- Civil: Failed attempt to sue LDS church,
- Victims: 1 victim,
- Alleged crime: 1980s, in Australia,
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Jane Doe
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- was an LDS church member in Australia; accused of sexual abuse.
- Criminal: Jail,
- Victims: 1 victim,
- Crime scenes: Perpetrator's home,
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Nicolas Pierre Faivre
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- was a former LDS bishop in Australia; charged with sending sexually explicit messages to a child.
- Criminal: Ongoing, Unknown result,
- Civil: No civil case,
- Victims: 1 victim,
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William Harding
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- Alleged coverup
- was an LDS church member and former Mormon bishop and ward clerk in Tasmania, Australia and Queensland, Australia; charged in or before 2023 with multiple counts of sexual assault of a minor in two states in Australia.
- Criminal: Ongoing, Unknown result,
- Victims: Multiple victims, Unknown number of victims,
- Alleged crime: 1970s, 1980s, 1990s, in Australia,
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Caleb Horner
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- 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.
- Criminal: Convicted, Found guilty, Jail, Ongoing,
- Victims: Unknown number of victims,
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Stephen Kay
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- 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.
- Criminal: Convicted, Jail, Pleaded guilty,
- Victims: 3 victims, Multiple victims,
- Crime: 1990s, in Australia,
- Convicted: 1990s,
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Ronald Albert Mills
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- 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: Convicted, Prison,
- Civil: No civil case,
- Victims: 1 victim,
- Crime scenes: LDS church building,
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Geoffrey James Powell
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- Alleged coverup
- 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.
- Criminal: Convicted, Jail,
- Civil: No civil case,
- Victims: 1 victim,
- Crime: 1980s, in Australia,
- Convicted: 2010s, 2019,
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Philip Gordon Ronald Salt
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- 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: Ongoing,
- Victims: 2 victims, Multiple victims,
- Alleged crime: 2010s, 2020s, in Australia,
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Darran Scott
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- 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.
- Criminal: Convicted, Prison,
- Victims: 10 or more victims, Multiple victims,
- Crime: 1990s, 2000s, 2010s, in Australia,
- Convicted: 2010s, 2017,
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Ruecha Tokputza
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- was an LDS church member in Australia; accused of sexual abuse.
- Criminal: Unknown result,
- Victims: 10 or more victims, Multiple victims, Unknown number of victims,
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Orson Davis Wright
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- 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.
- Criminal: Never charged, Not convicted,
- Civil: No civil case,
- Victims: Multiple victims,
- Crime scenes: Unknown crime scene,
- Alleged crime: 1970s, 1980s, in Australia,
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