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 state:
Utah,
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 reportChurch paid $unknown
Alleged church actions: Excommunicated, -
- 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 state:
North Carolina,
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 reportChurch paid $unknownAlleged church actions: Church officials accused of failure to warn stake members, Stake official accused of failure to report, Stake official accused of pressuring victim not to seek accountability, Ward official accused of failure to report, Filters
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