25 matching Mormon sex abuse cases

    • Jose Arias

      • 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, in California,
      • Positions: Missionary,
      • Alleged coverup

    • 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, in Utah,
      • Positions: Missionary,

    • Robert Campbell

    • 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, in California, Ireland,
      • Positions: Missionary,
      • Alleged coverup

    • 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, in Utah,
      • Positions: Missionary,

    • Abraham Cruz

      • 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, in Utah, Utah County (Utah),
      • Positions: Missionary,

    • John d'Aquin

      • 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, in Louisiana,
      • Positions: Missionary,
      • Alleged coverup

    • Michael Driggs

    • Francis Fuller

      • 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, in Utah,
      • Positions: Bishop, Missionary, Stake high council,

    • 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, in England, United Kingdom,
      • Positions: Missionary,

    • Hayden Hunter

      • 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, in California,
      • Positions: Missionary,

    • Daniel Landeros

    • Jason Larsen

      • 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, in California,
      • Positions: Missionary,

    • 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, in Texas,
      • Positions: Missionary,

    • Brandon Manning

      • 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, in Georgia, Scotland, United Kingdom, Utah,
      • Positions: Missionary, Youth leader,
      • Alleged coverup

    • Calvin McGee

      • 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, in Idaho, Virginia,
      • Positions: Missionary,
      • Alleged coverup

    • 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 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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      • Positions: Missionary,

    • 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, in Pennsylvania, Utah,
      • Positions: Missionary,

    • 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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      • Positions: Missionary,

    • Jason Stark

      • 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.
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      • Positions: Missionary,
      • Alleged coverup

    • 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, 2012, in Idaho,
      • Positions: Missionary,

    • James Victor

      • 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, in Canada,
      • Positions: Missionary,
      • Alleged coverup

    • Robert White

    • Sean Woolf

      • 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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      • Positions: Missionary,
      • Alleged coverup

     

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