28 LDS sex abuse cases found
- LDS position during crime: Missionary
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- Jose Arias (1962 – ) was a Mormon church missionary in Palm Desert, California; accused of sexual abuse; civil suit filed against LDS church and Arias; judge awarded judgment by default for the plaintiff (victim) against Arias in 2017 in the amount of approximately $4.2 million; the LDS church was not found liable
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Alleged crime: 1980s, - Places lived: California,
- Crime state: California,
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Was Missionary, 
Never charged, Not convicted, - Judgment for plaintiff, Lawsuit v. LDS church,
- Alleged failure to report
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- John Baysden was an LDS missionary from North Carolina who, while serving his mission in Roy, Utah (Ogden Utah mission), videotaped himself molesting two victims, ages 15 and 18; pleaded guilty to 2 counts of forcible sex abuse with minors; sentenced to 180 days in jail
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- Crime: 2000s,
- Places lived: North Carolina, Utah,
- Crime state: Utah,
Convicted:
2006, 
Was Missionary, 
Convicted, Jail, Plea deal, Pleaded guilty, -
- Robert Campbell was an LDS church member in Nebraska; accused of sexual abuse
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- Alleged crime: 1980s,
- Places lived: Idaho, Nebraska,
- Crime state: Idaho,
Was Missionary, Unknown result, Unknown result, -
- Niles Carr was a Mormon missionary in Ireland in the late 1980s, originally from California; convicted of child sexual abuse charges; Mormon leaders allegedly assigned Carr to work with Boy Scouts after knowing he was sent home from his mission due to child sex abuse allegations
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- Crime: 1980s,
- Places lived: California, Ireland,
- Crime country: Ireland,
- Crime state: California,
Was Missionary, Convicted, 
Alleged failure to report-
- Curtis Crittenden was a Mormon church member and LDS full-time missionary in Guatemala in 1993-1995; admitted to sexually abusing boys while on his mission and later when he was the head of 4-H in Tooele County; sentenced to prison in 2007 in Utah for child sexual abuse of several boys in his care as their 4-H leader
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- Crime: 1990s, 2000s,
- Places lived: Guatemala, Utah,
- Crime state: Utah,
Convicted:
2007, Was Missionary, Convicted, Plea deal, Pleaded guilty, Prison, -
- Abraham Cruz (2004 – ) was a Mormon missionary in Saratoga Springs, Utah; arrested in May 2024 on suspicion of sexual assault; charged with three first-degree felony counts (two of forcible sodomy, one of rape); charges were dismissed without prejudice in June 2024
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- Alleged crime: 2020s,
- Places lived: Utah, Utah County (Utah),
- Crime state: Utah,
- Crime county: UT - Utah,
Was Missionary, Charges dropped, Not convicted, -
- John d'Aquin (1966 – ) was an LDS church member; convicted in 1994 in Louisiana of contributing to the delinquency of juveniles performing sexually immoral acts; convicted in 2007 in Louisiana of indecent behavior with juveniles
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- Crime: 1990s,
- Places lived: Louisiana,
- Crime state: Louisiana,
Convicted:
2007, Was Missionary, Convicted, Unknown result, Alleged failure to report-
- Michael Driggs (1950 – ) was a Mormon missionary in Brazil in the early 1970s; allegedly sent to a different mission in the United States after being found having inappropriate relationships with young boys; convicted of child sexual abuse in 1985 in Arizona; convicted again of child sexual abuse in 2013 in Utah; he met his victim in the Utah case at church, according to court documents
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- Crime: 1980s, 2000s,
- Places lived: Arizona, Brazil, Maricopa County (Arizona), Utah,
- Crime state: Arizona, Utah,
- Crime county: AZ - Maricopa, UT - Salt Lake,
Convicted:
2013, Was Missionary, Convicted, Plea deal, Pleaded guilty, Prison, Registered sex offender, Alleged failure to report-
- Francis Fuller (1940 – ) was a Mormon bishop in Highland, Utah in 1993; also was a stake high council member in Utah; in 2018 or 2019, pleaded guilty to two second degree felony counts of child sexual abuse; sentenced in 2019 in Utah to two years in jail and four years probation; registered sex offender
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- Crime: 2010s,
- Places lived: Australia, Utah,
- Crime state: Utah,
Convicted:
2019, Was Bishop, Missionary, Stake high council, Convicted, Jail, Plea deal, Pleaded guilty, Probation, Registered sex offender, -
- 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, -
- Hayden Hunter (2001 – ) was a Mormon missionary in California; he was from Pleasant Grove, Utah; arrested in 2020 for distribution of child sexual abuse material (child pornography) while on his mission; convicted of possession of CSAM in 2021
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- Crime: 2020s,
- Places lived: California, Utah,
- Crime state: California,
Convicted:
2021, Was Missionary, Convicted, Released, -
- Daniel Landeros (1970 – ) was a Mormon missionary; accused of sexual abuse
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- Was Missionary,
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- Jason Larsen (1977 – ) was an LDS missionary from Idaho in Bakersfield, California; accused in 1997 of sexual abuse of an 8-year-old girl at a school; as of 2024, lives in Meridian, Idaho
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- Alleged crime: 1990s,
- Places lived: California, Idaho,
- Crime state: California,
Was Missionary, Unknown result, -
- Robert Longman was a Mormon missionary in Corpus Christi, Texas; molested a three-year old in a bedroom while two other missionaries talked with the mother; pleaded no contest to charges filed in May 1989 of indecency with a child; sentenced to eight years probation, a $1,000 fine, and required to pay $400 in court costs
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- Crime: 1980s,
- Places lived: Texas,
- Crime state: Texas,
Was Missionary, Convicted, No contest, Plea deal, Probation, -
- 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-
- Calvin McGee (2002 – ) was an LDS missionary in Virginia in 2022; accused of soliciting sexually explicit pictures and video from a person he believed to be an 11-year-old girl, and inviting her to meet in person; arrested in Boise, Idaho in July 2023 and accused of rape of a minor; pleaded guilty to two charges related to child sexual abuse; sentenced in May 2024 to three to 25 years in prison
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- Crime: 2020s,
- Places lived: Idaho, Virginia,
- Crime state: Idaho, Virginia,
Convicted:
2024, Was Missionary, Admitted guilt, Convicted, Ongoing, Plea deal, Pleaded guilty, Prison, Alleged failure to report-
- John Misseldine (1982 – ) 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,
- Places lived: Nevada,
- Crime state: Nevada,
Convicted:
2005, Was Missionary, Alford plea, Convicted, Prison, Probation, Registered sex offender, Dismissed, Lawsuit v. LDS church, Settlement, Unknown result, Alleged failure to report-
- Matthew Nash was a former Mormon missionary from Utah who served a mission in North Carolina in 1999; accused in 2001 of sexually molesting 11 girls while on his mission; pleaded guilty to charges of child sexual abuse
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- Was Missionary,
- Convicted, Plea deal, Pleaded guilty, Prison,
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- Omale Ojonugwnuwa was an LDS church member and full-time missionary in Ghana; sentenced to prison for child sexual abuse
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- Was Missionary,
- Convicted, Prison,
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- James Penrod was a Mormon church missionary in Pennsylvania in 1997; originally from Utah; sent home to Utah from his mission and arrested in July 1997 and charged with child sexual abuse; sentenced to prison for sexual abuse
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- Crime: 1990s,
- Places lived: Pennsylvania, Utah,
- Crime state: Pennsylvania, Utah,
Was Missionary, Convicted, Prison, -
- William Purdy (1997 – ) was a Mormon missionary in Tonga in 2017; originally from Utah; in July 2025, was arrested in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania after a federal grand jury indictment on charges related to child sexual exploitation; allegedly sexually abused multiple children while on his mission
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- Was Missionary,
- Ongoing,
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- Kyle Saucier was a Mormon missionary in Utah; charged in 2007 with aggravated sexual abuse of a child, but the charges were dropped after prosecutors said they could not proceed due to "witness problems"
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- Was Missionary,
- Charges dropped, Not convicted,
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- Jason Stark (1985 – ) was a former full-time Mormon missionary in Kentucky; accused of sexually abusing three people in 2005 while on his mission; a lawsuit was filed against the Mormon church; in 2025, sentenced to 30 years in prison in Idaho
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- Crime: 2000s, 2010s,
- Places lived: Kentucky,
- Crime state: Kentucky,
Was Missionary, Convicted, Plea deal, Prison, Lawsuit v. LDS church, Alleged failure to report-
- Derrick Starley was an LDS church member and full-time missionary in Chubbuck, Idaho; originally from Utah; perpetrated a sex crime while on his Mormon mission in October 2012; convicted in 2013 of felony injury to a child and sentenced to 10 days in jail
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- Crime: 2010s,
- Places lived: Idaho, Utah,
- Crime state: Idaho,
Convicted:
2013, Was Missionary, Convicted, Jail, Plea deal, Pleaded guilty, Probation, -
- Andrew Stringer was a Mormon church member; accused of sexual abuse
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- Was Missionary,
- Unknown result,
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- James Victor (1960 – ) was a Mormon missionary in Canada in the 1980s; allegedly sexually abused a 12-year-old boy while on his mission; an LDS stake president and a mission president (David Sorensen) allegedly covered up abuse allegations; Sorensen later became an LDS general authority
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- Alleged crime: 1980s,
- Places lived: Canada,
- Crime country: Canada,
Was Missionary, Police investigation, Unknown result, Alleged failure to report-
- Robert White was a Mormon missionary in South Dakota in the late 1960s; in 2008, a civil lawsuit filed against the Mormon church said he sexually abused a boy while on his mission
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- Alleged crime: 1960s,
- Places lived: South Dakota,
- Crime state: South Dakota,
Was Missionary, Never charged, Not convicted, Lawsuit v. LDS church, Settlement, Unknown result, Alleged failure to report-
- Sean Woolf (1974 – ) was an LDS church member and full-time missionary; accused of sexual abuse of a child; the alleged abuse occurred during his mission; the victim later sued or planned to sue the Mormon church in 2020; the church settled with the victim, according to a person familiar with the case
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- Was Missionary,
- Never charged, Not convicted,
- Lawsuit v. LDS church, Settlement,
- Alleged failure to report
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