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- 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
- Church discipline: Church position after confession/conviction, Excommunicated, Rebaptized,
- Criminal case(s): Convicted,
- Church positions: Bishop,
- Victims: 2 victims, Multiple victims,
- Born: 1792
  Died: 1868
- Mission: unknown
- Places lived: Nebraska, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake County (Utah), Utah,
- Latest update: 1868: died
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- Mark Cram was a former Mormon bishop and stake presidency counselor, and city manager in Riverton, Utah; charged in 2006 with voyeurism; admitted climbing a 9-foot wall at a tanning salon to watch a 16-year-old girl undress; pleaded guilty; plea was held in abeyance; he completed the terms set by the court, charge was dismissed and case was expunged in 2008; as of February 2024, lives in Riverton, Utah
- Church officials allegedly failed to report abuse
- Criminal case(s): Admitted guilt, Expunged, Not convicted, Pleaded guilty,
- Civil lawsuit(s): No civil case,
- Church positions: Bishop, Church employee, Stake high council, Stake presidency counselor,
- Alleged crime: 2006, in Utah,
- Crime scenes: Health appointment,
- Victims: 1 victim,
- Born: 1956
- Mission: unknown
- Places lived: Utah,
- Places when accused: Utah,
- Latest update: 2008: case dismissed, expunged
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- Clark Crookston was a former Mormon bishop, dentist and college professor in Orem, Utah; accused of nearly 60 years of sex abuse of multiple children; pleaded guilty to attempted aggravated child sexual abuse; sentenced in 2022 to up to 35 years in prison
- Church officials allegedly failed to report abuse
- Criminal case(s): Convicted, Plea agreement, Pleaded guilty, Prison,
- Church positions: Bishop, High priest, Missionary, Stake high council,
- Convicted: 2022,
- Victims: 3 victims, Multiple victims,
- Born: 1949
- Mission: 1968-1970 Germany West German Mission
- Places lived: Utah, Utah County (Utah),
- Places when accused: Utah,
- Documents available: yes (contact us to request)
- Latest update: March 2024: in prison at the Central Utah Correctional Facility (offender number 254115) in Gunnison, Sanpete County, Utah
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- Alan Croshaw was a Mormon bishop in Springville, Utah from at least 1991 to 1995; 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
- Criminal case(s): Convicted, Jail, Probation,
- Church positions: Bishop,
- Convicted: 2015,
- Victims: Multiple victims, Unknown number of victims,
- Born: 1946
- Mission: unknown
- Places lived: Utah,
- Places when accused: Utah,
- Documents available: yes (contact us to request)
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- Scott Darrington was a former LDS bishop and assistant school principal in Fallon, Nevada; convicted of possession of child pornography, spent a year in prison
- Criminal case(s): Convicted, Prison,
- Civil lawsuit(s): No civil case,
- Church positions: Bishop,
- Convicted: 2021,
- Victims: Multiple victims, Unknown number of victims,
- Born: 1967
- Mission: unknown
- Places lived: Nevada,
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- James Denos was a former LDS bishop and junior high school teacher in Utah; previously lived and served as a Mormon bishop in 1970 in Westminster, Orange County, California; sentenced in 2002 to a minimum of 20 years in a Utah state prison for sexually abusing four minor girls living in Utah; allegedly began molesting kids as early as 1950
- Church officials allegedly failed to report abuse
- Criminal case(s): Convicted, Prison,
- Civil lawsuit(s): No civil case,
- Church positions: Bishop, Missionary, Stake high council, Temple worker, Ward clerk,
- Convicted: 2002,
- Victims: 10 or more victims, Multiple victims,
- Born: 1929
  Died: 2017
- Mission: 1947-1950 Netherlands Holland
- Places lived: Utah,
- Latest update: 2017-10-25: died in Draper, Utah
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- 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
- Church officials allegedly failed to report abuse
- Criminal case(s): Convicted, Pleaded guilty, Prison, Probation,
- Civil lawsuit(s): Lawsuit v. LDS church, Ongoing,
- Church positions: Bishop, Scout leader, Sunday school, Temple worker, Youth leader,
- Convicted: 2021,
- Crime scenes: LDS building, Online,
- Victims: 1 victim,
- Born: 1966
- Mission: unknown
- Places lived: Arizona, Maricopa County (Arizona), Missouri,
- Places when accused: Missouri,
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- Gregory 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
- Criminal case(s): Convicted, Prison,
- Church positions: Bishop,
- Convicted: 2008,
- Victims: Multiple victims, Unknown number of victims,
- Born: 1961
- Mission: unknown
- Places lived: Ohio,
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- Spencer Dixon was a Mormon bishop in Salt Lake City, Utah; accused in 2002 of touching a 13-year-old girl inappropriately inside the LDS chapel of the Monument Park 7th Ward; acquitted in a jury trial
- Church officials allegedly failed to report abuse
- Criminal case(s): Acquitted, Found not guilty, Jury trial,
- Civil lawsuit(s): No civil case,
- Church positions: Bishop,
- Victims: 1 victim,
- Born: 1964
- Mission: unknown
- Places lived: Salt Lake City, Salt Lake County (Utah), Utah,
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- Dave Doe was a Mormon bishop in West Valley City, Utah; accused of sexual abuse; excommunicated, but never prosecuted
- Church officials allegedly failed to report abuse
- Church discipline: Excommunicated,
- Criminal case(s): Never charged,
- Church positions: Bishop,
- Alleged crime: Unknown crime year, in Salt Lake County (Utah), Utah,
- Mission: no
- Places lived: Salt Lake County (Utah), Utah,
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- John Doe was a Mormon bishop in or near Salt Lake City, Utah; accused of sexual abuse of a 13-year-old boy; the alleged sexual assault took place in the Salt Lake Temple in the 1980s (approximately 1986), during a visit to perform baptisms for the dead
- Church officials allegedly failed to report abuse
- Criminal case(s): Never charged, Not convicted,
- Civil lawsuit(s): No civil case,
- Church positions: Bishop, Temple worker,
- Crime scenes: LDS building, LDS temple,
- Victims: 1 victim,
- Mission: no
- Places lived: Salt Lake County (Utah), Utah,
- Places when accused: Unknown location,
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- John Doe was an LDS church member and former Mormon bishop in Alabama, Alaska and Texas; in 2022 or 2023, confessed to child sexual abuse to his LDS bishop and stake president in Texas, according to a person familiar with the case; they reported him to local police in 2023; in 2024, a plaintiff filed a civil lawsuit against him; Doe and the church settled with the victim in 2025
- Church officials allegedly failed to report abuse
- LDS church payment: Undisclosed amount
- Criminal case(s): Admitted guilt, Never charged, Not convicted,
- Civil lawsuit(s): Settlement,
- Church positions: Bishop,
- Victims: 1 victim,
- Born: 1961
- Mission: unknown
- Places lived: Alabama, Alaska, Texas,
- Places when accused: Texas,
- Documents available: yes (contact us to request)
- Latest update: 2024: civilly sued for alleged child sexual abuse
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- John Doe was a Mormon bishop in Pocatello, Idaho; an abuse survivor told FLOODLIT that Doe sexually abused them in his office at church in late 1999
- Church officials allegedly failed to report abuse
- Criminal case(s): Unknown result,
- Civil lawsuit(s): No civil case,
- Church positions: Bishop,
- Crime scenes: Bishop's office, LDS building,
- Victims: 2 victims, Multiple victims,
- Mission: Mexico Mexico City East
- Places lived: Idaho,
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- Matthew Doyle was an LDS bishop in Copperas Cove, Texas (2nd Ward) in the 2000s; was a high school basketball coach; convicted in 2011 of sexual assault
- Church officials allegedly failed to report abuse
- Criminal case(s): Convicted,
- Church positions: Bishop, Bishopric counselor,
- Crime scenes: Perpetrator's home,
- Victims: 1 victim,
- Born: 1973
- Mission: unknown
- Places lived: Texas,
- Places when accused: Texas,
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- Lionel Drage was an LDS bishop in Salt Lake City, Utah (Yale Second Ward, Bonneville Stake) in 1965; accused of child sexual abuse; was allegedly excommunicated from the LDS church for sexually abusing one or more children; died in 2022
- Church discipline: Excommunicated,
- Criminal case(s): Unknown result,
- Church positions: Bishop,
- Born: 1925
  Died: 2022
- Mission: unknown
- Places lived: Utah,
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- Jeremy 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
- Criminal case(s): Convicted, Pleaded guilty, Prison,
- Civil lawsuit(s): No civil case,
- Church positions: Bishop, Scout leader,
- Convicted: 2024,
- Victims: 100 or more victims,
- Born: 1968
- Mission: Unknown country
- Places lived: Indiana,
- Places when accused: Unknown location,
- Latest update: pleaded guilty to file sharing CSAM sentenced to 10 years prison
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- Todd Edwards was a Mormon bishop in Menifee, Riverside County, California; in 2013, sentenced to three years in prison for sexual abuse of one teenage girl in 2006 and another in 2012; was bishop at the time of the 2012 abuse; in 2024, two victims sued the LDS church in separate lawsuits; one said a stake president and LDS law firm Kirton McConkie hindered police
- Church officials allegedly failed to report abuse
- Criminal case(s): Convicted, Plea agreement, Pleaded guilty, Prison, Registered sex offender,
- Civil lawsuit(s): Lawsuit v. LDS church, Ongoing,
- Church positions: Bishop, Youth leader,
- Convicted: 2013,
- Crime scenes: Perpetrator's home, Vehicle,
- Victims: 3 victims, Multiple victims,
- Born: 1964
- Mission: unknown
- Places lived: California, Nevada,
- Places when accused: California,
- Documents available: yes (contact us to request)
- Latest update: 2024: two victims filed separate civil lawsuits against the Mormon church, saying its leaders failed to protect them from Edwards
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- Verd Erickson was a former Mormon bishop and dentist in Riverton, Wyoming who moved to Utah; was accused of sexual misconduct and lost his dentistry license in 2010; died in 2022
- Criminal case(s): Never charged, Not convicted,
- Civil lawsuit(s): No civil case,
- Church positions: Bishop,
- Crime scenes: Perpetrator's workplace,
- Victims: Unknown number of victims,
- Born: 1936
  Died: 2022
- Mission: unknown
- Places lived: Idaho, New Mexico, Rexburg (Idaho), Utah, Wyoming,
- Places when accused: Utah,
- Latest update: 2022: died
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- Pierre Euvrard was a Mormon mission president from 1991 to 1994 in the Mascarene Islands mission / South Africa Durban mission; died in 2000; accused in a 2020 Arizona lawsuit of sexually abusing two underage teen boys for years while working as a mission president
- Criminal case(s): Never charged,
- Church positions: Bishop, Bishopric counselor, Mission president, Missionary, Other leader, Stake high council, Temple worker,
- Crime scenes: Perpetrator's home, Perpetrator's workplace, Public,
- Born: 1949
  Died: 2000
- Mission: 1969-1971 Italy Italy
- Places lived: ever-madagascar, ever-south-africa,
- Documents available: yes (free download)
- Latest update: 2000: died
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- William Evans was a prominent Mormon church member in Salt Lake City, Utah; was bishop twice of the Grant 6th ward; from 1957 to 1962, was in the Utah State Legislature; served as Salt Lake County Clerk from 1968 to 1983; died in 1991; allegedly raped a relative in Salt Lake City in the early 1980s
- Church officials allegedly failed to report abuse
- Criminal case(s): Never charged, Not convicted,
- Civil lawsuit(s): No civil case,
- Church positions: Bishop, Stake presidency counselor,
- Victims: 1 victim,
- Born: 1909
  Died: 1991
- Mission: no
- Places lived: Salt Lake County (Utah), Utah,
- Places when accused: Utah,
- Latest update: 1991: died
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