2 Mormon sexual abuse cases

  • Crime location: Nebraska

  • Benjamin Covey

    • was a Mormon church member in the 1840s and 1850s; in 1848, was excommunicated for having sexual intercourse with two girls "less than Twelve years of age" who were his foster daughters; was rebaptized and soon thereafter was made bishop of the Salt Lake City Twelfth Ward from 22 February 1849 until 1856.
    • Criminal case: Convicted,
    • Victims: 2 victims, Multiple victims,
    • Crime years: 1800s,
    • Case report »

  • Randall Craig Deaton

    • was an LDS church member in the Holmes Lake Ward, Lincoln Nebraska Stake; convicted in 2002 of attempted 1st degree sexual assault of a minor; the abuse took place before Deaton joined the LDS church; subsequently called as counselor in a YSA ward bishopric.
    • Criminal case: Convicted, Unknown,
    • Victims: Unknown number of victims,
    • Crime years: 1990s, 2000s,
    • Convicted in: 2000s, 2002,
    • Case report »

 

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