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Joseph Carlton Atwater
- Victims: 1 victim,
- LDS positions: Unknown,
- LDS mission: no
- Criminal case: Convicted,
- The accused was an LDS church member in Australia; pleaded guilty to trafficking and kidnapping.
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John Doe
- LDS positions: Other leader,
- LDS mission: unknown
- Leaders allegedly hid sex crimes
- Criminal case: Never charged, Not convicted,
- Civil case: Failed attempt to sue LDS church,
- The accused was an LDS church member; accused of sexual abuse.
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William Harding
- AKA Bill Harding
- LDS positions: Bishop, Ward clerk,
- LDS mission: unknown
- Leaders allegedly hid sex crimes
- Criminal case: Ongoing,
- The accused was an LDS church member and former Mormon bishop and ward clerk in Tasmania, Australia and Queensland, Australia; charged in or before 2023 with multiple counts of sexual assault of a minor in two states in Australia.
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Ronald Albert Mills
- Victims: 1 victim,
- LDS mission: no
- Criminal case: Convicted, Prison,
- Civil case: No civil case,
- He 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.
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Philip Gordon Ronald Salt
- AKA Phil Salt, Phillip Salt, Phillip Gordan Ronald Salt
- Latest update: June 2023: Moving through the trial process in Perth, Australia
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Born: 1989
- LDS positions: Youth leader,
- LDS mission: unknown
- Criminal case: Ongoing,
- He was an LDS church member in Perth, Western Australia; accused in April 2023 of 16 charges of sexual abuse against two teenage male victims he met as their LDS youth leader.
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Orson Davis Wright
- AKA Orson D. Wright, President Wright
- Victims: Multiple victims,
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Born: 1928
Died: 2017
- LDS positions: Bishop, Bishopric counselor, Branch president, Mission president, Missionary, Stake high council, Temple Square tour guide, Temple worker,
- LDS mission: Australia - Australia [unknown]
- Criminal case: Never charged, Not convicted,
- Civil case: No civil case,
- The accused was a Mormon mission president in Sydney, Australia from 1978 to 1980; accused of grooming some of the sister missionaries in his care to be his polygamous wives; removed early from his mission assignment; LDS church leaders in Salt Lake City, Utah allegedly covered up the reasons for Wright's removal.
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