70 Mormon sexual abuse cases

  • LDS position: Bishop
  • Criminal case result: Convicted

  • Michael Dennis Antrobus

    • was a former Mormon branch president (similar to a bishop) and bishop in Connersville, Indiana for 10 years (approximately 1974-84); convicted of child sexual abuse charges (9 counts, 6 victims) in Sacramento County, California in 2021-2022; sentenced to 8 years in San Quentin State Prison; died by suicide in prison in September 2023; our sources report that he had at least a dozen victims.
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    • Criminal: Convicted, Pleaded guilty,
    • Civil: No civil case,

  • Arlo Kay Atkin

  • Gordon Brent Bodily

    • was a Mormon bishop and physical education teacher in Hyrum, Cache Valley, Utah; accused in 2000 of luring a 17-year-old North Carolina girl to Utah for sex while serving as an LDS bishop; sentenced in 2001 to 21 months in federal prison.
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    • Criminal: Convicted,
    • Civil: No civil case,

  • Donnie Rue Boring

    • was a Mormon bishop and stake high council member in California / Arizona; pleaded guilty in 2017 to a felony charge of sexual abuse; died in December 2017.
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    • Criminal: Convicted, Unknown result,

  • Allen J 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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    • Criminal: Admitted guilt, Convicted, Prison,
    • Civil: No civil case,

  • Ronald Terry Brockner

    • was a Mormon bishop and stake president in Louisiana; moved to Idaho; convicted in Idaho in 2020 of sexually exploiting a minor; sentenced to 5 to 10 years in prison.
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    • Criminal: Convicted, Prison,
    • Civil: No civil case,

  • Michael Lynn Bronson

    • was a former Mormon bishop in Utah; sentenced to prison in 2017 for first-degree felony attempted aggravated child sexual abuse.
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    • Criminal: Convicted, Prison,

  • Paul Douglas Burdick

    • was an LDS bishop and drivers education teacher in Oregon; arrested in 2019 and charged with child sexual abuse; pleaded guilty to third-degree sex abuse involving underage female students in his job as a drivers ed teacher.
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    • Criminal: Convicted,

  • James D Carnegie

  • Raymond Casillas

    • was a Mormon bishop and middle school teacher in San Antonio, Texas; arrested in 2014 and charged with felony aggravated sexual assault of a child; via a plea agreement, pleaded no contest to indecent contact with a child and agreed to a fine of $1,500; was sentenced in 2016 to 8 years in prison; as of March 2024, lives in San Antonio, Texas as a registered sex offender.
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    • Criminal: Convicted, No contest, Plea agreement, Prison, Registered sex offender,
    • Civil: No civil case,

  • Benjamin Covey

    • was a Mormon church member in the 1840s and 1850s; in 1848, was excommunicated for having sexual intercourse with two girls "less than Twelve years of age" who were his foster daughters; was rebaptized and soon thereafter was made bishop of the Salt Lake City Twelfth Ward from 22 February 1849 until 1856.
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    • Criminal: Convicted,

  • Clark Elwood Crookston

    • was a former Mormon bishop, dentist and college professor in Orem, Utah; accused of nearly 60 years of sex abuse of multiple children; found guilty of attempted aggravated child sexual abuse; sentenced in 2022 to up to 35 years in prison.
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    • Criminal: Convicted, Prison,

  • Alan Lee Croshaw

    • was a Mormon bishop in Utah in the 1990s; admitted to having a lifelong sexual addiction with a preference for prepubescent girls; downloaded and distributed child pornography; in 2015, sentenced to 30 days in jail for felony voyeurism and misdemeanor lewdness; violated probation by downloading porn.
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    • Criminal: Convicted, Jail, Probation,

  • Scott Alan 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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    • Criminal: Convicted, Prison,
    • Civil: No civil case,

  • James Edrick Denos

    • was a former LDS bishop and junior high school teacher in Utah; previously lived and served as a Mormon bishop in California; sentenced in 2002 to a minimum of 20 years in a Utah state prison for sexually abusing four of his granddaughters living in Utah; allegedly began molesting kids as early as 1950.
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    • Criminal: Convicted, Prison,
    • Civil: No civil case,

  • Larry Deutsch

    • was a Mormon bishop in Missouri; arrested in 2020 and charged with possession of child pornography (child sexual abuse material, or CSAM) and accused of luring an underage teenager from Arizona to Missouri; pleaded guilty; sentenced in 2021 to 12 years in federal prison plus a lifetime of supervised release; in 2024, the victim filed a civil lawsuit against the LDS church.
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    • Criminal: Convicted, Pleaded guilty, Prison,
    • Civil: Lawsuit v. LDS church, Ongoing,
    • Alleged coverup

  • Gregory Scott Dew

    • was a former Mormon bishop, chiropractor and gymnastics teacher in Ohio; sexually abused multiple children; convicted and sentenced to prison in 2008; as of November 2022, serving prison time in Ohio for sexually abusing teenage girls.
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    • Criminal: Convicted, Prison,

  • Matthew Thomas Doyle

  • Jeremy Aaron Dumas

    • was a Mormon bishop and boy scout leader in Indiana; pleaded guilty to charges related to child sexual abuse material (CSAM) in 2024; sentenced in September 2024 to 10 years in federal prison.
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    • Criminal: Convicted, Pleaded guilty, Prison,
    • Civil: No civil case,

  • Todd Mitchell Edwards

  • Thomas Evans-Southall

    • was an LDS bishop in Charlottesville, Virginia; originally from England; accused of sexual abuse; convicted and sentenced to prison.
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    • Criminal: Convicted,

  • Leeroy Fry

    • was a former Mormon bishop in Farmington, Utah; in 1982-83, was an LDS bishop in the Hunter 1st Ward of the Hunter Central Stake in Magna, Utah; in 2012, pleaded guilty to two charges of attempted aggravated sexual abuse of a child, a 1st degree felony.
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    • Criminal: Convicted, Pleaded guilty,

  • Francis Heber 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 prison.
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    • Criminal: Convicted, Jail,

  • Rex Lyle Furness

    • was a former Idaho state senator and Mormon bishop in Idaho; in 1996, pleaded guilty to sexual battery for fondling an underage girl; was sentenced to 60 days in jail; given a withheld judgment: if he did not violate the terms of his probation, the felony conviction would be kept from his record.
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    • Criminal: Convicted, Pleaded guilty, Probation, Withheld judgment,

  • Keith Lorraine Gillins

    • was a former mayor, LDS bishop and high school teacher in Fillmore, Utah; arrested on charges of having sex with a 17-year-old girl; convicted in 2009 of first degree felony attempted rape, first degree felony attempted sodomy and second degree felony forcible sexual abuse; sentenced in 2009 to three sentences of three years to life in prison.
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    • Criminal: Convicted, Prison,
    • Alleged coverup

  • Luis Gonzales

    • was a Mormon bishop in Sacramento, California; charged with 20 counts of child molestation, battery, rape, bigamy, stalking, and fraud; in 2002, was found guilty of bigamy, spousal abuse (battery) and child molestation.
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    • Criminal: Convicted,
    • Alleged coverup

  • Shawn Cory Gooden

    • was an LDS bishop in Lebanon, Pennsylvania from 2016-2020; arrested in 2022 and charged with sexual abuse of two children in Virginia from 1997-2000; pleaded guilty in July 2023 in Virginia to four felony counts; sentenced in November 2023 in Virginia to prison time and supervised probation on release; charged in July 2023 in Pennsylvania with more child sex abuse charges.
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    • Criminal: Convicted, Ongoing, Prison, Probation,
    • Civil: No civil case,
    • Alleged coverup

  • John Earl Goodrich

    • was a former Mormon bishop and dentist in Idaho; accused of child sexual abuse and of having nonconsensual sex with a woman he admitting to drugging; given a withheld judgement; in December 2023, the AP reported that the Mormon church had offered $300,000 to a victim and her mother to not use her story to sue the church, and to keep the NDA secret; arrested in Virginia in March 2024.
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    • Criminal: Charges dropped, Convicted, Withheld judgment,
    • Civil: Settlement,
    • Alleged coverup
    • LDS church payment: $300,000

  • Stanley Benjamin Green

    • was a former Mormon bishop in Athens, Texas (in or before 1998 to 1999 or later); accused of sexual abuse; convicted; died in 2009.
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    • Criminal: Convicted,
    • Civil: No civil case,

  • Douglas Bruce Hall

    • was an LDS bishop and retired Utah Highway Patrol sergeant; pleaded guilty in 2001 to two third degree felony counts of attempted forcible sexual abuse; pleaded guilty in 2002 to one second degree felony count of sex abuse of a child.
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    • Criminal: Convicted,

  • Albert Dee Halladay

  • Timothy James Hallows

    • was a Mormon bishop in Utah when he perpetrated sex crimes; sentenced to 46 months in federal prison for possessing child sexual abuse material (CSAM); released in January 2023; as of February 2024, lives in Pleasant View, Utah.
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    • Criminal: Convicted, Prison, Released,

  • Marvin Ross Harker

    • was an LDS bishop in Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada in 2016; reportedly confessed to his mission president in 1987 to sexually abusing multiple children; also reportedly confessed to his bishop; both leaders told him not to report to police, according to records in a 2016 criminal case; convicted in 2019 (alleged abuse 1986-93); sentenced in 2020 to five years in prison; registered sex offender.
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    • Criminal: Convicted, Prison,
    • Civil: No civil case,
    • Alleged coverup

  • James Hayes

    • was an LDS bishop in the Timmins - North Bay area, Ontario, Canada; convicted of sexual exploitation in November 2001; molested an underage girl in his ward while serving as her bishop.
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    • Criminal: Convicted,

  • Jeffrey Byron Head

    • was an LDS bishop in Utah; committed sex crimes while serving as a Mormon bishop; convicted of attempted forcible sexual abuse, two counts of lewdness and sexual battery; sentenced to four months in prison and four years of probation.
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    • Criminal: Convicted, Jail, Registered sex offender, Released,

  • Clayton Ray Hildreth

    • was a Mormon stake president in Butte, Montana; from Dillon, Montana; arrested in June 2004 by Boise, Idaho police for soliciting sex from a person he thought was a 14-year-old girl online; was stake president at the time of his arrest; pleaded guilty in October to a charge of interstate travel with intent to have sex with a minor; sentenced in 2005 to three years and five months in prison.
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    • Criminal: Convicted,

  • Erik Wayne Hughes

  • Floyd C Jennings

    • was a former Mormon bishop and school bus driver in Utah; arrested in February 2017 for soliciting sex from two girls he thought were 13 years old; convicted in 2019.
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    • Criminal: Convicted, Unknown result,

  • Carl Matthew Johnson

    • was a former mayor of West Bountiful, UT; former Mormon bishop in Utah; arrested for and charged with sexually abusing several children; pleaded guilty in January 2023 to four felony counts of child sexual abuse; sentenced in March 2023 to prison.
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    • Criminal: Convicted,
    • Civil: No civil case,

  • Lon Harvey Kennard

    • was a former Mormon bishop in Utah; in 2011, pleaded guilty to three felony counts of aggravated sexual abuse of a child; sentenced in November 2011 to three consecutive terms of five years to life in the Utah State Prison.
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    • Criminal: Convicted, Prison,

  • Martin Joseph MacNeill

  • Timothy O'Sean McCleve

    • was a former Mormon bishop in Harrisville, Utah when he was charged with sexually abusing three children; some of the abuse took place while he was bishop; sentenced in 2008 to up to 30 years in prison for child sexual abuse; in 2024, charged in Utah with threatening a witness in a parole violation investigation.
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    • Criminal: Convicted, Prison,

  • Chester Lewis Meek

    • was a Mormon bishop in Grand Prairie, Alberta, Canada when he sexually abused a woman; convicted of sexual assault against a female church member; there were several victims in this case over a period of five years; at least one reported abuse taking place in the bishop's office inside an LDS chapel.
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    • Criminal: Convicted,
    • LDS church payment: Undisclosed amount

  • Thomas Lee Monson

    • was an attorney for the LDS church's law firm, Kirton McConkie; In 1989, Monson paid a $75 fine and was placed on probation after he pleaded guilty to charges of soliciting sex from a prostitute; sued in the 1990s for sexual harassment; reached a settlement with the victim; was a Mormon bishop in Utah in 2008.
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    • Criminal: Convicted, Pleaded guilty,
    • Civil: Settlement,

  • Shawn Tyler Mortensen

  • David Neil Moss

    • was an LDS bishop (2015-19) and police officer in Utah; arrested in 2019 for soliciting an undercover cop for sex; pleaded guilty in 2019 to a 3rd degree felony charge of exploiting a prostitute and a misdemeanor charge of patronizing a prostitute; sentenced to prison, but both terms were suspended.
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    • Criminal: Convicted,
    • Civil: No civil case,

  • Steven Dean Murdock

    • was a Mormon stake high council member and former LDS bishop in Holladay, Salt Lake County, Utah; allegedly sexually harassed multiple women in his ward while he was their bishop (he was bishop from 2013 to 2017); in 2019, was caught taking photos of a young woman in a dressing room in Tennessee; pleaded guilty in November 2019; sentenced in 2019 to one year probation, 48 hours community service .
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    • Criminal: Admitted guilt, Convicted, Pleaded guilty, Probation, Released,
    • Civil: No civil case,
    • Alleged coverup

  • Joseph H Neipp

    • was a former LDS bishop in San Jose, California; in 2021, pleaded no contest to four molestation counts and was given an 18-year prison sentence, with credit for the three years he spent in county jail prior to his sentencing; father of convicted Mormon child sexual abuser Samuel Neipp.
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    • Criminal: Convicted,
    • Civil: Lawsuit v. LDS church, Unknown result,
    • Alleged coverup

  • Robert Kenneth Nelson

    • was an LDS bishop in Victoria, British Columbia, Canada; accused of sexual abuse of a "mentally handicapped" woman; pleaded guilty in 1989; placed on two years probation, ordered to do 150 hours of community service, and ordered to take a conducted tour of a local jail.
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    • Criminal: Community service, Convicted, Jail, Pleaded guilty, Probation,

  • Paul William Newman

    • was a former Mormon bishop in Utah; charged in 2020 with child sexual abuse; convicted of a sex crime.
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    • Criminal: Convicted,

  • DeRon Harrison Olsen

    • was a former Mormon bishop and stake presidency counselor in Spokane, Washington; in 2024, pleaded guilty to one felony count of child molestation and one felony count of child rape; sentenced to prison.
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    • Criminal: Convicted, Pleaded guilty, Prison,
    • Civil: No civil case,

  • Scott Dale Owen

    • was a Mormon bishop (twice), stake presidency counselor and therapist in Provo, Utah; called himself the "Porn King;" accused by 7 former patients of sexually abusing them during sessions, and by a cousin (alleged sex abuse in 1980s); an LDS bishop, a stake president (his business partner) and Utah DOPL all allegedly failed to report to police; arrested in November 2023; convicted in 2025.
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    • Criminal: Convicted, Ongoing, Plea agreement, Pleaded guilty,
    • Alleged coverup

  • Eddie Padilla

    • was a Mormon bishop in Taos, New Mexico; accused of child sexual abuse; convicted twice.
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    • Criminal: Convicted,

  • Eneudo Luis Petit

    • was a Mormon bishop in Provo, Utah; while bishop, allegedly sexually abused a child; accused of molesting another child before becoming a bishop; allegedly avoided arrest warrant for child sexual abuse by fleeing the US to Venezuela; arrested in Texas in 2021; convicted in Utah in 2022 and sentenced to prison; as of July 2024, is in the Uintah County Jail.
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    • Criminal: Convicted, Fled or failed to appear, Prison,
    • Civil: No civil case,

  • Ronald Wayne Phelps

  • Scott Elvin Phister

    • was a Mormon bishop and stake president in Wyoming; later moved to Utah and worked as a massage therapist; pleaded no contest in 2022 to two class A misdemeanor charges of sexual battery for touching a female massage client in a sexual manner.
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    • Criminal: Convicted,

  • Errol Kent Pilling

    • was a Mormon bishop and licensed psychologist in Calgary, Alberta, Canada; went on an LDS mission to England in the early 1960s; pleaded guilty in 1988 and in 1994 to charges of sexual misconduct; in September 1994, his registration as a chartered psychologist with the Psychologists Association of Alberta was cancelled; in 1994, was excommunicated; as of February 2024, lives in Twin Falls, Idaho.
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    • Criminal: Convicted,
    • Civil: Unknown result,

  • Byron Lloyd Poelman

    • was a bishop and stake president in Utah and partner in a law firm that represented the LDS church; arrested in 1994 for soliciting a prostitute; pleaded guilty to a class B misdemeanor charge of patronizing a prostitute.
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    • Criminal: Convicted,
    • Alleged coverup

  • Geoffrey James Powell

    • was an LDS bishop in Western Australia; accused of sexually abusing a seven-year-old girl in his ward; the alleged abuse took place while he was a bishop; the victim twice complained to the LDS church, but said she was not believed and was chastised, and it was suggested she should move away if she felt uncomfortable; in 2019, he was sentenced to 12 months in jail.
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    • Criminal: Convicted, Jail,
    • Civil: No civil case,
    • Alleged coverup

  • Keith Richard Price

    • was a Mormon bishop in Pleasant Grove, Utah; convicted in 2018 of class A misdemeanor voyeurism; secretly recorded underage girls; the crime occurred while he was serving as bishop.
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    • Criminal: Convicted, Unknown result,

  • Alberto Reyes

    • was a Mormon bishop in Argentina who sexually abused a child; allegedly sexually abused the victim for at least nine years; convicted in 2004.
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    • Criminal: Convicted,
    • Civil: No civil case,

  • Richard Blaine Sampson

  • Douglas George Stoddard

    • was an LDS bishop in Hurst, Texas; convicted in 1992 of a felony child sexual abuse charge of indecency with a child by contact; sentenced to 8 years of probation; a lifetime registered sex offender in Texas; named publicly in August 2023 by a victim who said Stoddard molested him and three other boys in his Mormon ward while serving as bishop.
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    • Criminal: Convicted, Probation, Registered sex offender,

  • Gerald Tapp

    • was a former LDS bishop in the UK; in 2008, sentenced to three and a half years in jail for distributing and possessing indecent images of children.
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    • Criminal: Convicted, Jail,

  • Wendell Shan Thompson

    • was a former LDS bishop and stake presidency member in Clinton, Mississippi; found guilty of gratification of lust; convicted in 2011 of felony child sexual abuse; some of the abuse took place while Thompson was in an LDS stake presidency role.
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    • Criminal: Convicted, Unknown result,
    • Civil: No civil case,

  • Donald Ray Tolman

    • was an LDS church member and former bishop in Provo, Utah (Provo 10th Ward, starting in 1975); convicted in 2020 of six felony counts related to child sexual abuse; sentenced in 2020 to 25 years to life in prison.
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    • Criminal: Convicted,

  • Charles Wesley Tyhurst

    • was a former LDS bishop and optometrist in southwest Virginia; accused of sexual abuse; convicted; 2020: sentenced in Virginia to prison for five years for aggravated sexual battery of a minor; 2024: registered sex offender; lives in Richmond, Virginia.
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    • Criminal: Convicted, Pleaded guilty,
    • Civil: No civil case,

  • Keith Robert Vallejo

  • Robert Fleming Westover

    • was a former LDS bishop and attorney in Dallas, Texas; arrested in 2021 for allegedly recording a minor; pleaded guilty in 2023 and sentenced to 4 years probation.
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    • Criminal: Convicted, Probation,
    • Civil: No civil case,

  • Dylan Kevin Whiting

    • was an LDS bishop in Nampa, Idaho; was removed from his position in 2021 after child sexual abuse allegations surfaced; was charged with four sex crimes; pleaded guilty to one felony count; sentenced in 2022 to prison.
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    • Criminal: Convicted, Prison,
    • Alleged coverup

 

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