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Paul Douglas Burdick
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- 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.
- Criminal case: Convicted,
- Victims: 10 or more victims, Multiple victims,
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Michael Adam Davis
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Leaders allegedly hid sex crimes- 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.
- Criminal case: Convicted, Prison,
- Victims: 2 victims, Multiple victims,
- Crime years: 2000s, 2010s,
- Convicted in: 2000s, 2003, 2006, 2020s, 2022,
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David Lee Hamblin
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- 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.
- Criminal case: Ongoing,
- Victims: 10 or more victims, Multiple victims, Unknown number of victims,
- Crime years: 1980s, 1990s, 2000s,
- Convicted in: Never convicted,
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Bruce T Jeppesen
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- was a former Mormon elders quorum president; sentenced to two concurrent terms of 15 years in the Utah State Prison for raping a child .
- Criminal case: Convicted,
- Victims: 1 victim,
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Carl Matthew Johnson
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- 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.
- Criminal case: Convicted,
- Civil case: No civil case,
- Victims: 3 victims, Multiple victims,
- Crime years: 1980s, 1990s,
- Convicted in: 2020s, 2023,
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David Chandler Owens
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- 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.
- Criminal case: Convicted, Prison,
- Civil case: No civil case,
- Victims: 3 victims, Multiple victims,
- Crime years: 2010s,
- Convicted in: 2010s, 2018,
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Grant Peck Packer
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- 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.
- Criminal case: Convicted, Pleaded guilty,
- Civil case: No civil case,
- Victims: Multiple victims,
- Crime scenes: Unknown crime scene,
- Crime years: 1990s,
- Convicted in: 1990s,
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Jason Michael Pedersen
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- 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.
- Criminal case: Convicted,
- Victims: 1 victim,
- Crime scenes: Perpetrator's home, Victim's home,
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Jeff Lewis Ranstrom
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- 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.
- Criminal case: Convicted, Registered sex offender,
- Victims: 1 victim,
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Lowell Robison
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- Leaders allegedly hid sex crimes
- was a Mormon mission president in the Mexico Leon mission (1995-1998) when he allegedly sexually abused multiple missionaries; accused in 2018 of the alleged abuse; two months later, died by suicide.
- Criminal case: Never charged, Not convicted,
- Civil case: No civil case,
- Victims: Multiple victims,
- Crime scenes: Unknown crime scene,
- Crime years: 1980s, 1990s,
- Convicted in: Never convicted,
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