2 LDS sex abuse cases found

Not active LDS
  • LDS position: Not active LDS
    • Nicholas Alahverdian (1987 – ) was an LDS church member in Rhode Island and Orem, Utah; allegedly sexually assaulted a 19-year-old woman in Rhode Island in 2006; she told Floodlit in 2025 that she reported to Mormon officials, and that two missionaries overheard; Alahverdian was convicted in two rape trials in 2025
    • CrimeCrime: 2000s,
    • Alleged crime scenesCrime county: UT - Utah,
    • Alleged crime scenesCrime state: Rhode Island, Utah,
    • ConvictedConvicted: 2008, 2025,
    • Church positionsLDS positions: Not active LDS,
    • Criminal casesCriminal case(s): Convicted, Found guilty, Prison,
    • Alleged failure to reportAlleged failure to report
    • "The guilt is heavy because [...] I may have been one of the first of his victims, if not the first. [...] He is a monster. It sickens me that not only did everyone turn a blind eye, but he went on to become a member at other LDS churches when the whole point of alerting the church was to excommunicate him and that hadn't been done."
      — Abuse survivor, 2025
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    • Ted Bundy (1946 – 1989) was baptized into the LDS church in 1975, but was not an active participant in church services and ignored most church restrictions; accused of rape and murder of dozens of women and girls; convicted of murder; executed by electric chair in Florida in 1989
    • Church positionsLDS positions: Not active LDS,
    • Criminal casesCriminal case(s): Convicted, Prison, Unknown result,
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