18 matching Mormon sex abuse cases

    • Arthur 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.
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      • Positions: Unknown position,

    • Allen Brinkerhoff

      • was a Mormon bishop and stake president and manager of an LDS stake welfare farm in Nevada; arrested in Nevada in 2007 and admitted to sexually abusing two children; was convicted and sentenced to 5 to 15 years in prison for battery with intent to commit sexual assault, and 12 to 32 months in prison for sexual abuse of a child; died in 2019.
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      • Positions: Bishop, Bishopric counselor, Other leader, Stake president,

    • Scott Darrington

      • was a former LDS bishop and assistant school principal in Fallon, Nevada; convicted of possession of child pornography, spent a year in prison.
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      • Crime: 2020s, in Nevada,
      • Positions: Bishop,

    • Todd Edwards

      • was a Mormon bishop in Menifee, Riverside County, California; in 2013, sentenced to three years in prison for sexual abuse of one teenage girl in 2006 and another in 2012; was bishop at the time of the 2012 abuse; in 2024, two victims sued the LDS church in separate lawsuits; one said a stake president and LDS law firm Kirton McConkie hindered police.
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      • Crime: 2000s, 2010s, in California,
      • Positions: Bishop, Youth leader,
      • Alleged coverup

    • Gary 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.
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      • Positions: Missionary, Other leader, Scout leader,

    • Matthew 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.
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    • 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.
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      • Positions: Ministering/home teacher,

    • Paul Jellum

      • 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.
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      • Alleged crime: 1980s, in Nevada,
      • Positions: Scout leader,
      • Alleged coverup

    • Michael Lister

      • was an LDS church member in or near Cedar City, Utah and Bunkerville, Nevada; accused in Utah in 2023 of sexual abuse of two young girls; pleaded guilty to one count of sodomy on a child; sentenced in June 2023 to 25 years to life in prison.
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      • Crime: 2020s, in Utah,
      • Positions: Unknown position,

    • Boyd Lords

    • Douglas Lund

      • was a former Mormon bishopric counselor in Pahrump, Nevada; arrested in 2011 and accused of repeated sexual abuse of two young girls; the alleged abuse occurred over a period of several years.
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      • Positions: Bishopric counselor,

    • David Matlock

    • Michael McClellan

      • was an LDS church member in Las Vegas, Nevada; arrested; convicted of attempted lewdness with a minor; sentenced to prison; as of 2024, lives in Cottonwood, Arizona.
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      • Crime: 2000s, in Nevada,
      • Positions: Youth leader,

    • John Misseldine

      • was a Mormon missionary in Nevada; charged with sexually abusing two 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 lawsuit said a local Mormon leader failed to report 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.
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      • Crime: 2000s, in Nevada,
      • Positions: Missionary,
      • Alleged coverup

    • Matthew Patton

      • was an LDS church member in Ogden, Utah; convicted of sexual abuse and sentenced to prison; crossed state lines after being released from prison and was pulled over by police; tried to flee from police; charged police with knives and died.
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      • Positions: Unknown position,

    • Jack Schofield

      • 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.
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      • Positions: Unknown position,
      • Alleged coverup

    • Robert Stevenson

    • Karey Zimmerman

     

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