Location Ever: Minnesota

7 matching Mormon sex abuse cases

- 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
- Criminal case(s): Convicted, Probation,
- Mission: unknown
- Places lived: California, Minnesota,
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- Ralph Burlingame was an LDS church member in Minnesota; sentenced in 1989 to prison for 2nd degree criminal sexual abuse of a child
- Criminal case(s): Convicted, Prison,
- Church positions: Unknown position,
- Victims: 1 victim,
- Born: 1947
- Mission: unknown
- Places lived: Minnesota,
- Places when accused: Minnesota,
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- Michael Davis was an LDS church member in Utah and later an elders quorum president in Minnesota; pleaded guilty in 2003 in Utah to misdemeanor lewdness involving a child; pleaded guilty in Utah in 2006 to felony forcible sexual abuse; arrested in 2019 in Minnesota; sentenced in 2022 to 30 years in prison for sexual abuse of a juvenile under his care; in March 2024, appealed his 2022 Minnesota conviction
- Church officials allegedly failed to report abuse
- Church discipline: Church position after confession/conviction,
- Criminal case(s): Convicted, Plea agreement, Pleaded guilty, Prison,
- Church positions: Elders quorum, Other leader,
- Convicted: 2003, 2006, 2022,
- Victims: 2 victims, Multiple victims,
- Born: 1985
- Mission: United States
- Places lived: Minnesota, Utah,
- Latest update: March 2024: appealed his 2022 Minnesota conviction, claiming ineffective counsel and a violation of his constitutional rights
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- Kyle Garrow was a Mormon church member in Rochester, Minnesota; accused of sexual abuse; convicted
- Criminal case(s): Convicted,
- Mission: unknown
- Places lived: Minnesota,
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- Maynard McFarland was an LDS church member in California and Minnesota; sentenced in 2005 to 32 years in prison for sexually abusing his daughter for many years; released from prison in 2020; as of 2024, lives in Chula Vista, California as a registered sex offender
- Church officials allegedly failed to report abuse
- Church discipline: Excommunicated,
- Criminal case(s): Convicted, Prison, Registered sex offender, Released,
- Civil lawsuit(s): Lawsuit v. LDS church, Ongoing,
- Church positions: Unknown position,
- Convicted: 2005,
- Crime scenes: Perpetrator's home, Victim's home,
- Victims: 2 victims, Multiple victims,
- Born: 1959
- Mission: no
- Places lived: California, Minnesota, North Dakota,
- Latest update: 2024: lives in Chula Vista, California as a registered sex offender
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- 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,
- Criminal case(s): Convicted, Prison,
- Church positions: Unknown position,
- Convicted: 2016, 2025,
- Crime scenes: Online,
- Victims: Multiple victims, Unknown number of victims,
- Born: 1985
- Mission: Unknown country Unknown
- Places lived: Minnesota,
- Places when accused: Minnesota,
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- Ryan Pugh was a former Mormon missionary and BYU-Idaho student in Rexburg, Idaho; arrested and charged in 2024 with sharing child sexual abuse material (CSAM) online
- Criminal case(s): Admitted guilt, Ongoing,
- Church positions: Missionary,
- Crime scenes: Online,
- Victims: Multiple victims, Unknown number of victims,
- Mission: 2019-2021 United States Minnesota Minneapolis (Spanish speaking)
- Places lived: Idaho, Minnesota,
- Places when accused: Idaho,
- Latest update: March 2024: charged in Idaho with sharing child sexual abuse material (CSAM) online
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