Case #27: Joseph Layton Bishop
- Victims:2+,
- Mission president, Missionary, Other leader,
- During alleged crime: Other leader,
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- Police investigation,
- Civil case dismissed, Civil case dismissed with prejudice,
- The accused 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.
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Case #209: George Patrick Lee
- AKA George P. Lee
- 2010: died
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Born: 1943
Died: 2010 - General authority, Mission president, Other leader, Seventy,
- During alleged crime: Seventy,
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- Guilty,
- The accused was a former LDS general authority; pleaded guilty to attempted sexual abuse of a child, a third-degree felony.
- George P. Lee was a member of the LDS church's First Quorum of Seventy from 1975 to 1989.
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Case #715: Richard Lorin Miles
- AKA Dick Miles, Rich Miles
- Victims:2+,
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Born: 1951
- Mission president,
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- The accused was an LDS church member in Bountiful, Utah; accused of sexual abuse in a civil lawsuit; case was dismissed with prejudice.
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Case #247: Gerald Elbert Mortimer
- AKA Gerry Mortimer, President Mortimer
- 2021: civil lawsuit dismissed with prejudice
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Born: 1943
- Mission president, Missionary, Temple president,
- United States - North Central States (including time in Ontario, Canada) 1962-1964
- 1967
- Other,
- He 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.
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Case #273: Spencer John Palmer
- 2000: died
- Victims:1,
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Born: 1927
Died: 2000 - Bishop, BYU professor, Mission president, Missionary, Other leader, Sunday school teacher, Temple president,
- United States - California 1947-1949
- 1956
- Never charged,
- He 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.
- was a mission president, temple president, LDS church area authority, and personal friend of Mormon prophet Gordon B. Hinckley.
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Case #290: Byron Lloyd Poelman
- AKA President Poelman
- 2014: died
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Born: 1934
Died: 2014 - Bishop, Bishopric counselor, Mission president, Missionary, Stake high council, Stake president, Sunday school teacher,
- During alleged crime: Stake president,
- When accused: Stake president,
- Netherlands - Netherlands
- 1963
- Alleged failure to report
- Guilty,
- He 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.
- was a partner in the Mormon church's law firm Kirton, McConkie and Poelman; the firm dropped Poelman's name shortly after he was caught doing a sex crime; Poelmans' brother Ronald was a member of the First Quorum of the Seventy.
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Case #905: Oliver Preston Robinson
- AKA O. Preston Robinson
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- Bishopric counselor, Mission president, Missionary, Other leader,
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- The accused 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.
- personal mentor to Thomas S. Monson, who later became president of the LDS church.
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Case #306: Lowell Robison
- 2018: died by suicide
- Victims:2+,
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Born: 1944
Died: 2018 - Bishop, Bishopric counselor, Elders quorum presidency member, Elders quorum president, Elders quorum secretary, Mission president, Missionary, Scout leader, Stake high council, Stake presidency counselor, Stake president, Sunday school teacher, Teachers quorum adviser,
- During alleged crime: Mission president,
- Mexico - Southeast Mexican 1963-1965
- 1966
- Alleged failure to report
- Never charged,
- no civil case,
- He 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.
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Case #328: Philander Knox Smartt
- AKA Lanny Smartt, President Smartt, Philander Smart III
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- Mission president, Other leader, Stake president,
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- The accused 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.
- Smartt's father, Philander Smart Jr. or Philander Smart II, who went by "Phil Smartt," was also a Mormon stake president (Chattanooga, Tennessee).
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