15 Mormon sexual abuse cases

  • LDS position: Elders quorum

  • Keith Kenneth Bergstresser

    • was an LDS church member in Oregon and Idaho; convicted in 2002 in Oregon of contributing to sexual delinquency of a minor; made a registered sex offender; in 2019, was assigned a position in an elders quorum presidency in Idaho.
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    • Criminal: Convicted,

  • 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,

  • Michael Adam Davis

    • was an LDS church member in Utah and later an elders quorum president in Minnesota; pleaded guilty in 2003 in Utah to misdemeanor lewdness involving a child; pleaded guilty in Utah in 2006 to felony forcible sexual abuse; arrested in 2019 in Minnesota; sentenced in 2022 to 30 years in prison for sexual abuse of a juvenile under his care; in March 2024, appealed his 2022 Minnesota conviction.
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    • Criminal: Convicted, Prison,
    • Alleged coverup

  • David R Dawson

  • Chet Barry Egley

    • was a Mormon church member in Weston, Idaho; tried to meet a 13 year old girl for sex; pleaded guilty and convicted to one count sexual abuse of a child and two counts o f entice a minor by internet or text.
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    • Criminal: Convicted, Pleaded guilty,

  • 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,

  • David Lee Hamblin

    • was an LDS church member in Utah; arrested in 2022 and charged with sexual abuse of a child; connected to an ongoing investigation into ritualistic sexual abuse in Utah; ex-husband of Roselle Stevenson, who was arrested in 2023 and charged with child sexual abuse.
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    • Criminal: Ongoing,

  • Bruce T Jeppesen

    • was a former Mormon elders quorum president; sentenced to two concurrent terms of 15 years in the Utah State Prison for raping a child .
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    • Criminal: Convicted,

  • 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,

  • David Chandler Owens

    • was an LDS elders quorum president in Tempe, Arizona; accused of sexual abuse; sentenced in 2018 to 20 or more years in prison for sexually assaulting three young men in his Mormon ward.
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    • Criminal: Convicted, Prison,
    • Civil: No civil case,

  • Grant Peck Packer

    • was an LDS church member in Idaho; served a full-time mission to Canada in 1946-48 and two senior missions to Atlanta, Georgia and San Bernardino, California; charged with child sexual abuse; pleaded guilty; sentenced to three to 10 years in prison and 10 years probation; died in 2008.
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    • Criminal: Convicted, Pleaded guilty,
    • Civil: No civil case,

  • Jason Michael Pedersen

    • was an LDS church member in Heber City, Utah; found guilty of first degree felony attempted aggravated sex abuse of a child; as of April 2024, lives in Riverton, Utah as a registered sex offender and is an LDS elders quorum president.
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    • Criminal: Convicted,

  • Jeff Lewis Ranstrom

    • was an LDS church member, elders quorum president and high school basketball coach in Idaho; accused in 2019 of sexually abusing a student; pleaded guilty to a felony charge of child sexual abuse; sentenced in 2020 to 4 to 15 years in prison; as of December 2023, was out on parole living in Eagle, Idaho as a registered sex offender.
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    • Criminal: Convicted, Registered sex offender,

  • Lowell Robison

  • Orin Ervin Searle

    • was an LDS church member in Ogden, Utah; accused of sexual abuse in 2013 but was deemed incompetent to stand trial; a victim said that Searle's predatory behavior began as early as the late 1950s, and that several family members, and multiple members of the LDS 44th Ward (Mount Ogden Stake), knew that Searle was a child molester but did nothing to stop him; died in 2014.
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    • Criminal: Not convicted,
    • Civil: No civil case,
    • Alleged coverup

 

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