Location Crime: Australia

27 matching Mormon sex abuse cases

Crime location: Australia

- Geoffrey Ashdown was a Mormon bishop and deputy school principal in Australia; allegedly sexually abused two children while he was a bishop; died
- Church positions: Bishop, Scout leader,
- Mission: unknown
- Places lived: Australia,
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- 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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- 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
- Criminal case(s): Convicted, Pleaded guilty, Unknown result,
- Church positions: Sunday school,
- Victims: Unknown number of victims,
- Mission: unknown
- Places lived: Australia,
- Latest update: May 2023: eligible for parole
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- Gordon Crawford was an LDS church member in Australia; accused of sexual abuse
- Church discipline: Excommunicated,
- Criminal case(s): Unknown result,
- Civil lawsuit(s): No civil case,
- Church positions: Unknown position,
- Alleged crime: Unknown crime year, in Australia,
- Victims: Unknown number of victims,
- Mission: no
- Places lived: Australia,
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- John Doe was an LDS church member in Adelaide, Australia; sentenced in 2021 to 10 years in prison for child sexual abuse
- Criminal case(s): Convicted, Prison,
- Church positions: Unknown position,
- Convicted: 2021,
- Victims: 1 victim,
- Born: 1952
- Mission: unknown
- Places lived: Australia,
- Latest update: 2021: sentenced to 10 years in prison for child sexual abuse
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- John Doe was an LDS church member in Ipswich, Australia; accused of sexual abuse; convicted; sentenced to 7 years in jail
- Criminal case(s): Convicted, Jail,
- Mission: unknown
- Places lived: Australia,
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- John Doe was an LDS church member in Brisbane, Australia; accused of child sexual abuse; convicted and sentenced to 15 months in jail
- Criminal case(s): Convicted, Jail,
- Church positions: Scout leader,
- Mission: unknown
- Places lived: Australia,
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- John Doe was an LDS church member in Australia; accused of sexual abuse; convicted; in 2018, sentenced to nearly 20 years in prison
- Criminal case(s): Convicted, Prison,
- Convicted: 2018,
- Mission: unknown
- Places lived: Australia,
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- John Doe was an LDS church member in Australia; accused of sexual abuse
- Church officials allegedly failed to report abuse
- Criminal case(s): Never charged, Not convicted,
- Civil lawsuit(s): No civil case,
- Crime scenes: LDS building,
- Victims: 1 victim,
- Mission: unknown
- Places lived: 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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- Jane Doe was an LDS church member in Australia; accused of sexual abuse
- Criminal case(s): Jail,
- Church positions: Sunday school,
- Crime scenes: Perpetrator's home,
- Victims: 1 victim,
- Mission: unknown
- Places lived: Australia,
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- Nicolas Faivre was a former LDS bishop in Australia; charged with sending sexually explicit messages to a child
- Criminal case(s): Ongoing, Unknown result,
- Civil lawsuit(s): No civil case,
- Church positions: Bishop,
- Alleged crime: Unknown crime year, in Australia,
- Victims: 1 victim,
- Born: 1979
- Mission: unknown
- Places lived: Australia,
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- 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,
- Criminal case(s): Convicted, Jail, Ongoing, Plea agreement, Pleaded guilty,
- Church positions: Branch president, Ward clerk,
- Victims: Multiple victims, Unknown number of victims,
- Born: 1940
- Mission: unknown
- Places lived: Australia,
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- 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,
- Criminal case(s): Convicted, Found guilty, Jail, Ongoing,
- Church positions: Missionary,
- Victims: Unknown number of victims,
- Mission: unknown
- Places lived: Australia,
- Latest update: October 2024: Sentenced to three years of "community corrections," avoiding additional jail time
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- A K was a Mormon church member in Brisbane, Australia; accused of sexual abuse
- Church positions: Bishopric counselor, Seminary teacher,
- Born: 1961
- Mission: unknown
- Places lived: Australia,
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- 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
- Criminal case(s): Convicted, Jail, Pleaded guilty,
- Church positions: Scout leader,
- Victims: 3 victims, Multiple victims,
- Born: 1940
- Mission: no
- Places lived: Australia,
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- Daphney Matthews was a Mormon church member in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia; accused of sexual abuse
- Criminal case(s): Unknown result,
- Civil lawsuit(s): No civil case,
- Church positions: Youth leader,
- Born: 1970
- Mission: unknown
- Places lived: 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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