6 LDS sex abuse cases found
music leaders (choir directors, choristers, organists, pianists, etc.)
- LDS position: Music leader
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- David Brown was an LDS church member and boy scout leader in Missouri; charged with 32 counts of statutory sodomy; pleaded guilty in 2003 to five counts related to statutory sodomy; sentenced to prison for 15 years; a victim sued the Mormon church in 2003
Crime: 1990s, 2000s, 
Crime state:
Missouri,
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- Convicted:
2003, 2005,
LDS positions: Music leader, Scout leader, 
Criminal case(s): Convicted, Plea deal, Pleaded guilty, Prison, - Civil case(s): Lawsuit v. LDS church, Unknown result,
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Crime state:
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- James Duffin (1952 – ) was an LDS church member in California; accused of child sexual abuse; convicted in 2006; incarcerated 2006 to 2011; allegedly groomed female students ages 7-10 with attention and candy and then forcing sexual contact in his classroom after school
- Crime: 2000s,
- Crime state:
California,
Convicted:
2006, 
LDS positions: Music leader, Youth leader, 
Criminal case(s): Convicted, Prison, Registered sex offender, Released, -
- Cotton Hunter (2002 – ) was a Mormon church member in Missouri; accused of sexual abuse
- LDS positions: Music leader,
- Criminal case(s): Convicted,
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- Lance Rushton (1970 – ) was an LDS church member in Provo, Utah; accused of photo shopping faces of family members, ward church members of adults and children on to pornographic material and distributing them; convicted in 2007 and sentenced to three months in jail and three years of probation
- Crime: 2000s,
- Crime city:
UT - Provo,
- Crime state:
Utah,
Crime city:
Convicted:
2007, LDS positions: Music leader, Criminal case(s): Convicted, Jail, Plea deal, Pleaded guilty, Probation, -
- Michael Simms was a Latter-day Saints (LDS) church member, organist and music teacher in Oregon; accused in a 2009 civil lawsuit against the LDS church of sexually abusing a boy about 100 times between 1974 and 1976; case settled in 2010 in federal court
- Alleged crime: 1970s,
- Alleged crime state:
Oregon,
LDS positions: Music leader, Criminal case(s): Unknown result, Civil case(s): Unknown result, 
Alleged failure to report-
- Jared Wilson (1976 – ) was an LDS church member in Raleigh, North Carolina; convicted in 2011 of crimes related to child sexual abuse (six total counts of indecent liberties with a child); released from prison in 2015; no longer a registered sex offender as of 2025; in 2013, the alleged victims' mother sued the Mormon church, a stake president and two bishops; the case settled in 2015
- Crime: 2000s, 2010s,
- Crime city:
crime-city-nc-raleigh,
- Crime county:
crime-county-nc-wake,
- Crime state:
North Carolina,
Crime county:
Convicted:
2011, LDS positions: ever-ward-missionary, Music leader, Sunday school, Sunday school teacher, Criminal case(s): Convicted, Civil case(s): Lawsuit v. LDS church, Settlement, Unknown result, Alleged failure to reportFilters
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