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Michael Adamson
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Leaders allegedly hid sex crimes- was a church caretaker and organist in York, England; abused at least four children as young as seven years old; convicted; sentenced to prison in England in 2008 for child sexual abuse.
- Criminal case: Convicted,
- Civil case: No civil case,
- Victims: 4 victims, Multiple victims,
- Crime scenes: LDS church building,
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Stewart Allsford
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- was a former LDS bishop in the Plymouth England stake; accused of sexually abusing two girls; died by suicide on third day of his child sex abuse trial.
- Criminal case: Suicide,
- Victims: 2 victims, Multiple victims,
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James Broom
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Martyn Conway
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- was a Mormon church member; pleaded guilty of child sexual abuse.
- Criminal case: Convicted,
- Civil case: No civil case,
- Victims: 1 victim,
- Crime years: 1980s,
- Convicted in: 1990s,
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Daniel Cupyrna
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- was a Mormon assistant stake clerk and stake technology specialist in Middlesbrough Ward, Billingham Stake, UK; accused of possession of child sexual abuse material; admitted to wrongdoing; convicted.
- Criminal case: Admitted guilt, Convicted,
- Civil case: No civil case,
- Victims: Multiple victims, Unknown number of victims,
- Crime scenes: Online,
- Crime years: 2010s,
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Michael Davies
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- was a Mormon church member in Wales; pleaded guilty to child sexual abuse.
- Criminal case: Convicted,
- Civil case: No civil case,
- Victims: 2 victims, Multiple victims,
- Crime years: 2000s,
- Convicted in: 2000s, 2005,
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Karl Monsen Elvik
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- was a Mormon church youth leader in Glasgow, Scotland; admitted indecency offences against eight boys; was jailed for 18 months..
- Criminal case: Convicted, Jail, Registered sex offender,
- Victims: 8 victims, Multiple victims,
- Crime years: 1980s, 1990s,
- Convicted in: 2010s, 2014,
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Joseph Hastings
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- was a Mormon church member in Clevedon, UK; sentenced to prison for sending child pornography to an undercover police officer online in 2015; sentenced to 13 years and eight months in prison, including a custodial term of eight years and eight months.
- Criminal case: Admitted guilt, Convicted, Prison,
- Victims: Multiple victims, Unknown number of victims,
- Crime years: 2010s,
- Convicted in: 2010s, 2015,
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Matthias Heinrichs
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- was an LDS church member and missionary from the Netherlands, serving his mission in England; accused of sexual abuse that allegedly occurred during his mission; pleaded guilty; jailed for two years.
- Criminal case: Convicted, Pleaded guilty,
- Victims: 1 victim,
- Crime years: 2010s,
- Convicted in: 2010s, 2012,
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Brandon Lee Manning
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- was an LDS church member in Utah and Georgia; convicted three times of sex crimes: Scotland in the 1990s, Utah in 2001, Georgia in 2020; assigned to be a young men's president in a Georgia LDS branch in 2017; arrested in 2019 and charged with eight felony counts of child sexual exploitation; convicted; as of November 2023, lives in Fort Valley, Georgia as a registered sex offender.
- Criminal case: Convicted, Pleaded guilty, Registered sex offender,
- Civil case: No civil case,
- Victims: 10 or more victims, Multiple victims,
- Crime years: 1990s, 2000s, 2010s,
- Convicted in: 1990s, 2000s, 2001, 2020, 2020s,
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Joseph Shanks
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- was an LDS senior missionary and temple worker in Chorley, Lancashire, England; found guilty of ten charges related to sex crimes after he was caught in a police sting operation trying to meet three young children for sex.
- Criminal case: Convicted, Jail,
- Victims: 3 victims, Multiple victims,
- Crime years: 2010s,
- Convicted in: 2010s, 2017,
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Charles Brian Shield
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- Leaders allegedly hid sex crimes
- was an LDS ward executive secretary in England and Scotland; accused of sexual abuse; convicted; sentenced in 2017 to six years in prison.
- Criminal case: Convicted, Prison,
- Victims: 1 victim,
- Crime years: 1960s, 1970s,
- Convicted in: 2010s, 2017,
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Gerald Tapp
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- was a former LDS bishop in the UK; in 2008, sentenced to three and a half years in jail for distributing and possessing indecent images of children.
- Criminal case: Convicted, Jail,
- Victims: Multiple victims, Unknown number of victims,
- Crime years: 2000s,
- Convicted in: 2000s, 2008,
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