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Joseph Layton Bishop
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- was a Mormon church member and president of the Provo, Utah Missionary Training Center (MTC) in the 1980s; allegedly sexually abused multiple sister missionaries; not criminally charged because the statute of limitations had expired (in 1984, the legal deadline in Utah for filing a rape charge was four years); civil lawsuit was dismissed after an agreement by the plaintiff and the LDS church.
- Criminal case: Police investigation,
- Civil case: Civil case dismissed, Civil case dismissed with prejudice,
- Victims: Multiple victims,
- Crime scenes: LDS church building,
- Crime years: 1970s, 1980s,
- Convicted in: Never convicted,
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George Patrick Lee
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- was a former LDS general authority; pleaded guilty to attempted sexual abuse of a child, a third-degree felony.
- Criminal case: Convicted,
- Civil case: No civil case,
- Victims: 1 victim,
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Richard Lorin Miles
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- was an LDS church member in Bountiful, Utah; accused of sexual abuse in a civil lawsuit; case was dismissed with prejudice in 2020.
- Victims: 2 victims, Multiple victims,
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Gerald Elbert Mortimer
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- was an OB/GYN doctor in Idaho and former Mormon temple president and mission president in the Philippines; admitted in 2019 to secretly using his sperm to artificially inseminate multiple women; a civil suit against him was dismissed with prejudice in 2021, possibly because of a private settlement agreement.
- Criminal case: Admitted guilt, Never charged, Not convicted,
- Victims: Multiple victims, Unknown number of victims,
- Crime scenes: Perpetrator's workplace,
- Crime years: 1980s,
- Convicted in: Never convicted,
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Spencer John Palmer
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- was a Mormon temple endowment ceremony actor, BYU professor, mission president, temple president, LDS church area authority; posthumously accused of child sexual abuse by his grandson.
- Criminal case: Never charged, Not convicted,
- Victims: 1 victim,
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Byron Lloyd Poelman
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Leaders allegedly hid sex crimes- 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.
- Criminal case: Convicted,
- Victims: 1 victim,
- Crime years: 1990s,
- Convicted in: 1990s,
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Oliver Preston Robinson
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- was a prominent LDS church member in Salt Lake City, Utah; served in numerous church leadership positions; was president of the Utah Symphony; was general manager of Deseret News Publishing Company and editor of the Deseret News; accused posthumously, along with his wife Christine Hinckley Robinson, of child sexual abuse.
- Criminal case: Never charged, Not convicted,
- Victims: 1 victim,
- Crime years: 1900 to 1949, 1950s,
- Convicted in: Never convicted,
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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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Ramiro Antelo Saenz
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- was an LDS mission president and Temple president in Bolivia; accused of sexually abusing two teenage girls.
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Philander Knox Smartt
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- was a Mormon mission president in Puerto Rico; accused of sexually manipulating some of his sister missionaries; LDS church sent him home and called his behavior "immoral and sinful," but no criminal charges or civil lawsuits resulted.
- Criminal case: Never charged,
- Civil case: No civil case,
- Victims: Multiple victims,
- Crime scenes: Unknown crime scene,
- Crime years: 2010s,
- Convicted in: Never convicted,
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Orson Davis Wright
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- was a Mormon mission president in Sydney, Australia from 1978 to 1980; accused of grooming some of the sister missionaries in his care to be his polygamous wives; removed early from his mission assignment; LDS church leaders in Salt Lake City, Utah allegedly covered up the reasons for Wright's removal.
- Criminal case: Never charged, Not convicted,
- Civil case: No civil case,
- Victims: Multiple victims,
- Crime scenes: Unknown crime scene,
- Crime years: 1970s, 1980s,
- Convicted in: Never convicted,
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