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28 LDS sex abuse cases found

Places lived: United Kingdom

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- Michael Adamson (1945 – ) was a Mormon church caretaker and organist in York, England; allegedly abused at least four children as young as seven years old between 1966 and 1982; sentenced to prison in England in 2008 for child sexual abuse
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- Crime: 1960s, 1970s, 1980s,
- Places lived: England, United Kingdom,
- Crime country: England, United Kingdom,
- Convicted: 2008,
- Was Other leader,
- Convicted,
- Alleged failure to report
- Mark Aitken (1982 – ) was a Mormon church member in Falkirk, Scotland; found guilty of raping a 16-year-old girl after allegedly sending her manipulative and threatening messages; sentenced to seven years in prison
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- Crime: 2010s,
- Places lived: Scotland, United Kingdom,
- Crime country: Scotland, United Kingdom,
- Convicted: 2022,
- Was Unknown position,
- Convicted, Found guilty, Prison,
- Stewart Allsford (1951 – 2017) 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
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- Alleged crime: 1990s,
- Places lived: England, United Kingdom,
- Crime country: England, United Kingdom,
- Was Bishop,
- Died awaiting trial, Not convicted, Suicide,
- Alleged failure to report
- Steven Bain/Baine was allegedly a Mormon church member in Southport, England; accused of sexual abuse; convicted
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- Was Unknown position,
- Convicted,
- Alexander Boulton (1917 – 2015) was a former Mormon bishop of the 28th Ward in South Ogden, Utah; in 1995, convicted via plea deal of one second-degree felony count of child sex abuse; sentenced to probation
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- Crime: 1990s,
- Places lived: Australia, England, United Kingdom, Utah,
- Crime country: United States,
- Crime state: Utah,
- Crime county: UT - Utah,
- Convicted: 1995,
- Was Bishop, Bishopric counselor,
- Convicted, Plea deal, Pleaded guilty,
- James Broom (1947 – ) was a LDS church member in Scotland; jailed in 2009 for sexually abusing a 15-year-old girl
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- Crime: 2000s,
- Places lived: Scotland, United Kingdom,
- Crime country: Scotland, United Kingdom,
- Convicted: 2009,
- Was Unknown position,
- Convicted, Jail,
- Marc Cameron (1978 – ) was a Mormon church member and former BYU hip-hop dance instructor in Utah; arrested and charged in June 2025 after allegedly sexually assaulting underage students at a dance studio he owned in Cottonwood Heights; some of the alleged abuse took place as early as 2019
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- Was Unknown position,
- Ongoing,
- John Conway was a Mormon church member in Cambridge, UK; accused of child sexual abuse after his twin brother Martyn Conway was convicted of child sexual abuse; in both cases, the victim was the same underage boy
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- Was Unknown position,
- Convicted, Unknown result,
- Martyn Conway was a Mormon church member in England; pleaded guilty of child sexual abuse; twin brother of John Patrick Conway, who also perpetrated child sexual abuse against the same victim
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- Crime: 1980s,
- Places lived: England, United Kingdom,
- Crime country: England, United Kingdom,
- Was Unknown position,
- Convicted, Plea deal, Pleaded guilty,
- Michael Cunningham (1947 – ) was a Mormon church member in England; accused of sexual abuse; a judge sentenced Cunningham to ten years imprisonment and told him that he must register as a sex offender for the rest of his life
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- Was Missionary, Ward clerk, Youth leader,
- Convicted, Prison, Registered sex offender,
- Alleged failure to report
- Daniel Cupyrna 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
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- Crime: 2010s,
- Places lived: England, United Kingdom,
- Crime country: England, United Kingdom,
- Was Other leader, Stake clerk,
- Admitted guilt, Convicted,
- Michael Davies was a Mormon church member in Wales; pleaded guilty to child sexual abuse
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- Crime: 2000s,
- Places lived: United Kingdom, Wales,
- Crime country: United Kingdom, Wales,
- Convicted: 2005,
- Was Unknown position,
- Convicted, Plea deal, Pleaded guilty,
- Reed Decker (1944 – ) was a Mormon church member in Davis County, Utah; charged in March 2023 with two felony counts of child sexual abuse; as of March 2024, a jury trial is scheduled for September 2024
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- Crime: 2010s,
- Places lived: Davis County (Utah), Scotland, United Kingdom, Utah,
- Crime state: Utah,
- Crime county: UT - Davis,
- Was Missionary,
- Convicted, Plea deal, Pleaded guilty, Probation,
- Karl Elvik (1963 – ) was a Mormon church youth leader in Glasgow, Scotland; admitted indecency offenses against eight boys; was jailed for 18 months
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- Crime: 1980s, 1990s,
- Places lived: Scotland, United Kingdom,
- Crime country: Scotland, United Kingdom,
- Convicted: 2014,
- Was Youth leader,
- Convicted, Jail, Registered sex offender,
- Thomas Evans-Southall was an LDS bishop in Charlottesville, Virginia; originally from England; accused of sexual abuse; convicted in 2018 and sentenced to two consecutive terms of two years in prison
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- Crime: 2010s,
- Places lived: England, United Kingdom, Virginia,
- Crime state: Virginia,
- Convicted: 2018,
- Was Bishop, Elders quorum, Youth leader,
- Convicted,
- Alleged failure to report
- Joseph Hastings (1987 – ) 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
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- Crime: 2010s,
- Places lived: England, United Kingdom,
- Crime country: England, United Kingdom,
- Convicted: 2015,
- Was Missionary,
- Admitted guilt, Convicted, Prison,
- Matthias Heinrichs was an LDS missionary in England; originally from the Netherlands; accused of sexual abuse that allegedly occurred during his mission; pleaded guilty; jailed for two years
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- Crime: 2010s,
- Places lived: England, Netherlands, United Kingdom,
- Crime country: England, United Kingdom,
- Convicted: 2012,
- Was Missionary,
- Convicted, Jail, Pleaded guilty,
- Brandon Manning (1973 – ) 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
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- Crime: 1990s, 2000s, 2010s,
- Places lived: Georgia, Scotland, United Kingdom, Utah,
- Crime country: Scotland, United Kingdom,
- Crime state: Georgia, Utah,
- Convicted: 2001, 2020, Unknown,
- Was Missionary, Youth leader,
- Convicted, Pleaded guilty, Registered sex offender,
- Alleged failure to report
- Raymond Parkin (1950 – ) was an LDS church member in Mansfield, England; accused of sexual abuse; convicted and sentenced in 2009 to prison for 18 years for serious sexual offenses against two young girls
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- Convicted: 2009,
- Was Unknown position,
- Convicted, Prison,
- Geoffrey Porter was an LDS church member in the United Kingdom; accused of sexual abuse
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- Unknown result,
- Thomas Reed was a Mormon church member in England; accused of sexual abuse; convicted; jailed for 18 years
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- Was Unknown position,
- Convicted, Jail,
- Paul Roberts was a Mormon church member in England; accused of sexual abuse; convicted and sentenced to 12 years in jail
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- Convicted, Jail,
- Joseph Shanks was an LDS senior missionary and temple worker in Chorley, Lancashire, England; convicted of ten charges related to sex crimes after he was caught in a police sting operation trying to meet three young children for sex; called from a landline registered to the Mormon Church's missionary training center
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- Crime: 2010s,
- Places lived: England, United Kingdom,
- Crime country: England, United Kingdom,
- Convicted: 2017,
- Was Missionary, Temple worker,
- Convicted, Jail,
- Charles Shield (1942 – ) was an LDS ward executive secretary in England and Scotland; accused of sexual abuse; convicted; sentenced in 2017 to six years in prison
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- Crime: 1960s, 1970s,
- Places lived: England, Scotland, United Kingdom,
- Crime country: England, United Kingdom,
- Convicted: 2017,
- Was Ward executive secretary,
- Convicted, Prison,
- Alleged failure to report
- Richard Simcock was an LDS church member in the United Kingdom (UK); accused of sexual abuse; sentenced in 2013 to 10 years in prison
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- Convicted: 2013,
- Was Unknown position,
- Convicted, Prison,
- Darren Swift was an LDS church member in England; accused of sexual abuse; convicted
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- Was Unknown position,
- Convicted,
- Gerald Tapp (1952 – ) was a Mormon bishop in Gravesend, England; in 2008, sentenced to three and a half years in jail for distributing and possessing indecent images of children
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- Crime: 2000s,
- Places lived: England, United Kingdom,
- Crime country: England, United Kingdom,
- Convicted: 2008,
- Was Bishop,
- Convicted, Jail,
- Karey Zimmerman (1962 – ) was a Mormon church member in Utah and Nevada; in 2025, was accused in a civil lawsuit of child sexual abuse that allegedly took place in Nevada and Utah; the Mormon church was also named as a defendant; the lawsuit said a Utah bishop failed to report abuse allegations to police
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- Alleged crime: 2000s, 2010s,
- Places lived: England, Nevada, Salt Lake County (Utah), United Kingdom, Utah,
- Crime state: Nevada, Utah,
- Crime county: UT - Salt Lake,
- Was Missionary,
- Never charged, Not convicted,
- Lawsuit v. LDS church, Ongoing,
- Alleged failure to report

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