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Donate »6 Mormon sexual abuse cases
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David Neil Brown
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- was an LDS church member and boy scout leader in Missouri; charged with 32 counts of statutory sodomy; pleaded guilty in 2003 to five counts related to statutory sodomy; sentenced to prison for 15 years.
- Criminal: Convicted, Prison,
- Civil: No civil case,
- Victims: 5 victims, Multiple victims,
- Crime: 1990s, 2000s, in Missouri,
- Convicted: 2000s, 2005,
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Anastasia Elizabeth Dawson
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- was a Mormon church member in Missouri; arrested in 2023 and charged with several counts relating to sexual abuse of a minor.
- Criminal: Ongoing, Unknown result,
- Victims: 1 victim,
- Alleged crime: 2020s, in Missouri,
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Larry Deutsch
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Alleged coverup- was a Mormon bishop in Missouri; arrested in 2020 and charged with possession of child pornography (child sexual abuse material, or CSAM) and accused of luring an underage teenager from Arizona to Missouri; pleaded guilty; sentenced in 2021 to 12 years in federal prison plus a lifetime of supervised release; in 2024, the victim filed a civil lawsuit against the LDS church.
- Criminal: Convicted, Pleaded guilty, Prison,
- Civil: lawsuit against LDS church, Ongoing civil case,
- Victims: 1 victim,
- Crime scenes: LDS church building, Online,
- Crime: 2010s, 2020s, in Arizona, Maricopa County (Arizona), Missouri,
- Convicted: 2020s, 2021,
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Burrell Mohler
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- Alleged coverup
- was an LDS church member in Missouri; accused of sexual abuse; criminal charges dropped; civil case in 2013, results unknown.
- Criminal: Criminal charges dropped, Unknown result,
- Victims: Multiple victims, Unknown number of victims,
- Alleged crime: 1990s, 2000s, in Missouri,
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Mark Daniel Sherry
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- was an LDS church member in Kansas City, Missouri; found guilty of Sexual Misconduct - 2nd Degree, found guillty on 2000-07-11; .
- Criminal: Convicted,
- Victims: 1 victim,
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Larry W Strain
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- was a Mormon church member; accused of sexual abuse.
- Criminal: Unknown result,
- Civil: No civil case,
- Victims: 3 victims, Multiple victims,
- Crime scenes: Unknown crime scene,
- Alleged crime: 1970s, in Missouri,
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