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Jose Antonio Arias
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Leaders allegedly hid sex crimes- 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.
- Criminal case: Never charged, Not convicted,
- Civil case: Civil judgment in favor of plaintiff, lawsuit against LDS church,
- Victims: 1 victim,
- Crime years: 1980s,
- Convicted in: Never convicted,
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John Baysden
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- 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.
- Criminal case: Convicted,
- Civil case: No civil case,
- Victims: 2 victims, Multiple victims,
- Crime scenes: Unknown crime scene,
- Crime years: 2000s,
- Convicted in: 2000s, 2006,
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Robert D Campbell
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- was an LDS church member in Nebraska; accused of sexual abuse.
- Criminal case: Unknown,
- Civil case: Unknown result,
- Victims: 2 victims, Multiple victims,
- Crime scenes: LDS church activity, LDS church building,
- Crime years: 1980s,
- Convicted in: Never convicted,
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Curtis Reed Crittenden
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- 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.
- Criminal case: Convicted, Plea agreement, Pleaded guilty, Prison,
- Victims: 5 victims, Multiple victims, Unknown number of victims,
- Crime years: 1990s, 2000s,
- Convicted in: 2000s, 2007,
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Abraham Isaac (possibly Issac) Cruz
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- 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.
- Criminal case: Criminal charges dropped, Not convicted,
- Civil case: No civil case,
- Victims: 1 victim,
- Crime years: 2020s,
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John Scott d'Aquin
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- Leaders allegedly hid sex crimes
- 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.
- Criminal case: Convicted, Unknown,
- Victims: Multiple victims, Unknown number of victims,
- Crime scenes: LDS church building,
- Crime years: 1990s,
- Convicted in: 1990s, 2000s, 2007,
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Matthias Heinrichs
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- was an LDS church member and missionary from the Netherlands, serving his mission in England; accused of sexual abuse that allegedly occurred during his mission; pleaded guilty; jailed for two years.
- Criminal case: Convicted, Pleaded guilty,
- Victims: 1 victim,
- Crime years: 2010s,
- Convicted in: 2010s, 2012,
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Hayden Hoss Hunter
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- 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.
- Criminal case: Convicted, Released,
- Civil case: No civil case,
- Victims: Multiple victims, Unknown number of victims,
- Crime scenes: Online,
- Crime years: 2020s,
- Convicted in: 2020s, 2021,
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Daniel Landeros
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- was a Mormon missionary; accused of sexual abuse.
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Jason Chad Larsen
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- 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.
- Criminal case: Unknown,
- Victims: 1 victim,
- Crime scenes: Victim's school,
- Crime years: 1990s,
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Robert Eric Longman
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- 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.
- Criminal case: Convicted, No contest, Probation,
- Victims: 1 victim,
- Crime scenes: Victim's home,
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Brandon Lee Manning
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- 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.
- Criminal case: Convicted, Pleaded guilty, Registered sex offender,
- Civil case: No civil case,
- Victims: 10 or more victims, Multiple victims,
- Crime years: 1990s, 2000s, 2010s,
- Convicted in: 1990s, 2000s, 2001, 2020, 2020s,
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Calvin James McGee
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- Leaders allegedly hid sex crimes
- 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.
- Criminal case: Admitted guilt, Convicted, Ongoing, Pleaded guilty, Prison,
- Victims: 2 victims, Multiple victims,
- Crime years: 2020s,
- Convicted in: 2020s, 2024,
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John Misseldine
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- 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,
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Settlement paid by LDS church: $782,000
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Matthew Alan Nash
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- 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.
- Criminal case: Convicted,
- Civil case: No civil case,
- Victims: 10 or more victims, Multiple victims,
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James William Penrod
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- 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.
- Criminal case: Convicted, Prison,
- Civil case: No civil case,
- Victims: Unknown number of victims,
- Crime years: 1990s,
- Convicted in: 1990s,
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Kyle Saucier
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- 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".
- Criminal case: Criminal charges dropped,
- Civil case: No civil case,
- Victims: 1 victim,
- Crime scenes: Perpetrator's home,
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Jason Stark
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- was a former full-time Mormon missionary in Kentucky; accused of sexually abusing three people in 2005 while on his mission.
- Criminal case: Unknown,
- Victims: 3 victims, Multiple victims,
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Derrick Starley
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- was an LDS church member and full-time missionary in Idaho; sentenced to prison for a sex crime committed while on his Mormon mission.
- Criminal case: Convicted, Pleaded guilty, Prison,
- Victims: 1 victim,
- Crime years: 2010s,
- Convicted in: 2010s, 2013,
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James Mitchell Victor
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- Leaders allegedly hid sex crimes
- 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.
- Criminal case: Police investigation, Unknown,
- Civil case: No civil case,
- Victims: Multiple victims,
- Crime scenes: Perpetrator's home,
- Crime years: 1980s,
- Convicted in: Never convicted,
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Robert Lewis White
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- was a Mormon missionary in South Dakota in the late 1960s; accused in a civil lawsuit in 2008 of sexually abusing a boy while on his mission.
- Criminal case: Never charged, Not convicted,
- Civil case: Unknown result,
- Victims: 1 victim,
- Crime years: 1960s,
- Convicted in: Never convicted,
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Sean David Woolf
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- Leaders allegedly hid sex crimes
- 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 sued the Mormon church in 2020; the church settled with the victim.
- Criminal case: Never charged, Not convicted,
- Civil case: lawsuit against LDS church, Settlement,
- Victims: 1 victim,
- Convicted in: Never convicted,
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