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Joseph Carlton Atwater
- Victims: 1 victim,
- LDS positions: Unknown,
- LDS mission: no
- Criminal case: Convicted,
- The accused was an LDS church member in Australia; pleaded guilty to trafficking and kidnapping.
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Bret Anthony Chesworth
- AKA Brett Chesworth
- Latest update: May 2023: eligible for parole
- LDS positions: Sunday school teacher,
- LDS mission: unknown
- Criminal case: Convicted, Pleaded guilty,
- The accused 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.
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Gordon Terrence Crawford
- Victims: Unknown number of victims,
- LDS positions: Unknown,
- LDS mission: no
- Criminal case: Unknown,
- Civil case: No civil case,
- The accused was an LDS church member in Australia; accused of sexual abuse.
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John Doe
- Latest update: 2021: sentenced to 10 years in prison for child sexual abuse
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Born: 1952
- LDS positions: Unknown,
- LDS mission: unknown
- Criminal case: Convicted,
- He was an LDS church member in Adelaide, Australia; sentenced in 2021 to 10 years in prison for child sexual abuse.
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John Doe
- AKA Mr Daniels
- LDS mission: unknown
- Leaders allegedly hid sex crimes
- Criminal case: Never charged, Not convicted,
- Civil case: No civil case,
- The accused was an LDS church member in Australia; accused of sexual abuse.
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John Doe
- LDS positions: Other leader,
- LDS mission: unknown
- Leaders allegedly hid sex crimes
- Criminal case: Never charged, Not convicted,
- Civil case: Failed attempt to sue LDS church,
- The accused was an LDS church member; accused of sexual abuse.
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Jane Doe
- Victims: 1 victim,
- LDS positions: Sunday school teacher,
- LDS mission: unknown
- Criminal case: Jail,
- The accused was an LDS church member in Australia; accused of sexual abuse.
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Nicolas Pierre Faivre
- AKA Nicholas Faivre
- Victims: 1 victim,
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Born: 1979
- LDS positions: Bishop,
- LDS mission: unknown
- Criminal case: Ongoing, Unknown,
- Civil case: No civil case,
- He was a former LDS bishop in Australia; charged with sending sexually explicit messages to a child.
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William Harding
- AKA Bill Harding
- LDS positions: Bishop, Ward clerk,
- LDS mission: unknown
- Leaders allegedly hid sex crimes
- Criminal case: Ongoing,
- The accused 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.
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Caleb Horner
- AKA Caleb Smibert
- Latest update: Awaiting Trial as of 2023
- LDS positions: Unknown,
- LDS mission: unknown
- Criminal case: Ongoing,
- The accused was an LDS church member in Melbourne, Australia; accused of raping a teenage boy; awaiting trial.
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Stephen Kay
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Born: 1940
- LDS positions: Scout leader,
- LDS mission: no
- Criminal case: Convicted,
- He 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 prison.
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Ronald Albert Mills
- Victims: 1 victim,
- LDS mission: no
- Criminal case: Convicted, Prison,
- Civil case: No civil case,
- He 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.
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Geoffrey James Powell
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Born: 1947
- LDS positions: Bishop,
- LDS mission: unknown
- Criminal case: Convicted,
- He was a former LDS bishop in Western Australia; jailed for 12 months for sexually abusing a seven-year-old girl in his ward.
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Philip Gordon Ronald Salt
- AKA Phil Salt, Phillip Salt, Phillip Gordan Ronald Salt
- Latest update: June 2023: Moving through the trial process in Perth, Australia
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Born: 1989
- LDS positions: Youth leader,
- LDS mission: unknown
- Criminal case: Ongoing,
- He 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.
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Darran Scott
- AKA Darran Scott Page, Dan Scott, JD Scott
- Latest update: 2017: sentenced to 10 years in prison in Australia for child sexual abuse
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Born: 1964
- LDS positions: Youth leader,
- LDS mission: unknown
- Criminal case: Convicted,
- He 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 to 10 years in prison.
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Ruecha Tokputza
- LDS mission: unknown
- The accused was an LDS church member in Australia; accused of sexual abuse.
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Orson Davis Wright
- AKA Orson D. Wright, President Wright
- Victims: Multiple victims,
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Born: 1928
Died: 2017
- LDS positions: Bishop, Bishopric counselor, Branch president, Mission president, Missionary, Stake high council, Temple Square tour guide, Temple worker,
- LDS mission: Australia - Australia [unknown]
- Criminal case: Never charged, Not convicted,
- Civil case: No civil case,
- The accused 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.
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