5 matching Mormon sex abuse cases

      • Paul Adams was an LDS church member in Arizona; sexually abused two children for several years after confessing to his bishop; arrested and charged; died by suicide in 2017 while in custody awaiting trial
      • Alleged coverup
      • Church discipline: Excommunicated,
      • Ted Bundy was baptized into the LDS church in 1975, but was not an active participant in church services and ignored most church restrictions; accused of rape and murder of dozens of women and girls; convicted of murder; executed by electric chair in Florida in 1989
      • Randall Deaton was an LDS church member in the Holmes Lake Ward, Lincoln Nebraska Stake; convicted in 2002 of attempted 1st degree sexual assault of a minor; the abuse took place before Deaton joined the LDS church; subsequently called as counselor in a YSA ward bishopric
      • Alleged coverup
      • Blake Mendenhall was an LDS church member in American Fork, Utah; accused of sexual abuse
      • Kenneth Rarick was a Mormon church member in Alaska; accused of sexual abuse; convicted

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