5 matching Mormon sex abuse cases

  • Crime location: Minnesota
    • Hector Amezcua was an LDS church member in Woodbury, Minnesota; accused of sexual abuse; convicted; finished his probation and moved to California; as of 2023, lives in California
    • Ralph Burlingame was an LDS church member in Minnesota; sentenced in 1989 to prison for 2nd degree criminal sexual abuse of a child
    • Jeffery Niemi was a Mormon church member in Duluth, Minnesota; convicted in 2016 and again in 2025 of felonies related to child sexual exploitation; sentenced in 2025 to 30 years in prison
    • Church discipline: No action,