-
Arthur Gus Bennett
- was an LDS church member in Hurricane, Utah; accused of sexual abuse of two teenage girls; allegedly faked a suicide to collect insurance money; was arrested and charged with murder and sexual abuse; died by suicide in jail while awaiting trial.
- Criminal case: Died awaiting trial, Not convicted, Suicide,
- Victims: 2 victims, Multiple victims,
- Case report »
-
Allen J Brinkerhoff
- was a Mormon bishop and stake president and manager of an LDS stake welfare farm in Nevada; in 2007, found guilty of child sexual abuse and sentenced.
- Criminal case: Convicted,
- Civil case: No civil case,
- Victims: 2 victims, Multiple victims,
- Crime scenes: Unknown crime scene,
- Convicted in: 2000s, 2007,
- Case report »
-
Scott Alan Darrington
- was a former LDS bishop and assistant school principal in Fallon, Nevada; convicted of possession of child pornography, spent a year in prison.
- Criminal case: Convicted, Prison,
- Civil case: No civil case,
- Victims: Multiple victims, Unknown number of victims,
- Crime years: 2020s,
- Convicted in: 2020s, 2021,
- Case report »
-
Gary Edward Erickson
- was an LDS church member, boy scout leader and Mesquite, Nevada police detective; was arrested in 2018, pleaded guilty to a charge of crossing state lines to engage in illicit sexual conduct; convicted in Utah.
- Criminal case: Convicted,
- Victims: 1 victim,
- Convicted in: 2010s, 2019,
- Case report »
-
Matthew Collin Felshaw
- was a Mormon church member in Caldwell, Idaho; charged with sexually assaulting a young child; took a plea deal and was convicted of Injury to child; received suspended prison sentence and 8 years probation and has to register as a sex offender.
- Victims: 1 victim,
- Convicted in: 2020s, 2024,
- Case report »
-
Martin Gillen
- was a Mormon church member in Nevada and Colorado; in 2002, Gillen was convicted of sexual assault of a 6-year-old and sentenced to eight years in prison in Colorado; in 2016, arrested and charged again with child sex abuse, but case was dismissed.
- Criminal case: Convicted,
- Civil case: No civil case,
- Victims: Multiple victims,
- Crime scenes: Unknown crime scene,
- Convicted in: 2000s, 2002,
- Case report »
-
Paul Maxce Jellum
- Leaders allegedly hid sex crimes
- was a Mormon scout leader in Logan, Utah in the 1980s; suspended by the BSA in 1987 after being accused of sexually abusing a 14-year-old Boy Scout in his troop during a 1986 Scouting event at Camp Hunt near Bear Lake, Utah; in 1990, Jellum became a scoutmaster in a Nevada LDS ward despite his prior suspension; in 1991, Jellum admitted to the abuse.
- Criminal case: Police investigation, Unknown,
- Civil case: No civil case,
- Victims: 1 victim,
- Case report »
-
Boyd K Lords
- was a Mormon church member in Winnemucca, Nevada; accused of child sexual abuse; pleaded guilty in 2022 to one felony count of lewdness with a child under the age of 14; was sentenced to prison.
- Criminal case: Convicted,
- Victims: 1 victim,
- Crime years: 2010s,
- Convicted in: 2020s, 2022,
- Case report »
-
David Allen Matlock
- was a Mormon church member; arrested and convicted in 2022 of open and gross lewdness.
- Criminal case: Convicted, Unknown,
- Victims: Unknown number of victims,
- Crime years: 2020s,
- Convicted in: 2020s, 2022,
- Case report »
-
Michael Joe McClellan
- was an LDS church member in Las Vegas, Nevada; arrested and convicted of LEWDNESS WITH A MINOR (ATTEMPT); was sentenced to prison; currently lives in Cottonwood, Arizona.
- Criminal case: Convicted,
- Victims: Multiple victims, Unknown number of victims,
- Crime years: 2000s,
- Convicted in: 2000s, 2004,
- Case report »
-
John Misseldine
- Leaders allegedly hid sex crimes
- was a Mormon missionary in Nevada; charged with sexually abusing two little children at an LDS chapel in the Las Vegas area; in 2005, made a plea deal to avoid prison, via an Alford plea to two counts; a local LDS leader allegedly failed to report the abuse to police; in 2008, sentenced to prison after violating the plea deal; as of 2024, lives in Las Vegas, Nevada as a registered sex offender.
- Criminal case: Alford plea, Convicted, Probation, Registered sex offender,
- Victims: 2 victims, Multiple victims,
- Crime scenes: LDS church building,
-
Settlement paid by LDS church: $782,000
- Case report »
-
Matthew Scott Patton
- was an LDS church member in Ogden, Utah; found guilty sexual abuse and sentenced to time in prison; crossed state lines after being released from prison and got pulled over by police; tried to flee from police and then charged police with knives; died my police homicide.
- Criminal case: Convicted,
- Victims: 1 victim,
- Case report »
-
Jack Lund Schofield
- Leaders allegedly hid sex crimes
- was an LDS church member, school administrator and state senator in Las Vegas, Nevada; accused of sexual harassment; died in 2015; a victim told FLOODLIT he sold her repeatedly to sex trafficking clients at a motel in Las Vegas.
- Criminal case: Never charged, Not convicted,
- Civil case: No civil case,
- Victims: Multiple victims, Unknown number of victims,
- Convicted in: Never convicted,
- Case report »
-
Robert Stevenson
- Leaders allegedly hid sex crimes
- was an LDS church member in Las Vegas, Nevada; accused of sexual abuse.
- Criminal case: Unknown,
- Victims: 1 victim,
- Crime years: 2000s,
- Case report »
View the Mormon Sexual Abuse Map
International map of locations where active members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints perpetrated or allegedly perpetrated sexual abuse or other sex crimes, or where LDS leaders failed or allegedly failed to help abuse survivors.
Visit the FLOODLIT Map