Case #12: Larren Bybee Arnold
- Victims:1,
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Born: 1935
- Scout leader,
- During alleged crime: Scout leader,
- no
- Add info
- Guilty,
Settlement paid by LDS church: Yes (undisclosed amount)
- The accused was a Mormon church member and scout leader in Idaho; in 1984, arrested for lewd conduct with a minor under sixteen (molested a nine year-old boy) in Idaho; convicted in October 1984; received a five year suspended sentence and three years probation.
- Case report »
Case #15: Eric Patrick Avant
- AKA Ricky Avant
- Victims:10+, 2+, 20+, 5+,
- Scout leader,
- During alleged crime: Scout leader,
- no
- Add info
- Guilty,
Settlement paid by LDS church: $2,000,000
- The accused was a Mormon church member and cub scout leader in Norfolk, Virginia; was sentenced to 26 years in prison for molesting eight boys; had as many as 41 alleged victims.
- Case report »
Case #16: Norman Carl Barber
- AKA Norm Barber, Dr. Barber, Norm C. Barber DDS
- 1988: pleaded guilty to sexual abuse of two 15-year-old girls
- Victims:2+,
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Born: 1947
- Scout leader,
- no
- Add info
- Alleged failure to report
- Guilty,
- He was a Mormon church member and dentist in Layton, Utah; was a scout leader; pleaded guilty in 1988 to sexually abusing two girls who were his dental patients; the sexual abuse occurred in his dental office and included drugging one or both girls with nitrous oxide.
- Case report »
Case #17: Bryan A Barner
- Victims:2+,
- Scout leader,
- During alleged crime: Scout leader,
- no
- Add info
- Guilty,
- The accused was a Mormon church member in New York in the 1980s; scout leader, molested a 12-year-old boy and two 13-year-old boys; sentenced to no more than one year in prison.
- Case report »
Case #403: David William Bennett
- AKA Dave Bennett
- Victims:5+, 8,
-
Born: 1954
- Scout leader, Young men's president,
- During alleged crime: Scout leader,
- Add info
- Add info
- Guilty, Pleaded guilty,
- Civil case result unknown,
- The accused was an LDS church member and scout leader in California and Korea; convicted in 1987 in California of child sexual abuse; moved to Korea; was assigned to be an LDS young men's president and scoutmaster; was accused of molesting several boys; disappeared in 1991; FLOODLIT is attempting to locate him.
- Case report »
Case #25: Arthur Gary Bishop
- AKA Art Bishop, Roger Downs
- Victims:2+,
-
Born: 1952
Died: 1988 - Missionary, Scout leader,
- During alleged crime: Scout leader,
- Philippines - Philippine Islands / Philippines 1971-1973
- no
- Guilty,
- The accused was a Mormon boy scout leader in Utah; was excommunicated in the 1970s; later molested multiple children and killed five young boys; was sentenced to death by lethal injection in 1988.
- Case report »
Case #30: Wyman C Blankenship
- Victims:2+,
- Scout leader,
- no
- Add info
- Guilty,
- The accused was a Mormon church member; scout leader, pleaded guilty to molesting boys.
- Case report »
Case #33: David James Borg
- Victims:Add info
- Scout leader, Youth leader,
- During alleged crime: Scout leader, Youth leader,
- no
- Add info
- Guilty,
- The accused was a Mormon church member and scout leader; pleaded guilty to molesting multiple boys; sentenced to 34 years in prison.
- Case report »
Case #36: Douglas Ray Bowen
- AKA Doug Bowen
- Victims:Add info
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Born: 1950
- Scout leader,
- no
- Add info
- Alleged failure to report
- Guilty,
- He was an LDS church member and Boy Scout leader in Washington, California, Utah and Idaho; was convicted of attempted aggravated sexual abuse of a child.
- direct relative of Mormon apostle Albert E. Bowen and seventy Shayne M. Bowen.
- Case report »
Case #583: Jack Earl Bowers
- AKA Jack E. Bowers
- released from prison; 2021: living in northern Utah; 2023: registered sex offender in Kearns, Utah
- Victims:Add info
- Scout leader,
- Add info
- 1969
- Guilty,
- He was a Mormon church member in St. George, Utah; pleaded guilty in 2010 to two second degree felony counts of child sex exploitation; sentenced to two consecutive terms of 1 to 15 years in prison.
- Bowers's father was an LDS bishop, stake president, mission president, temple president and stake patriarch.
- Case report »
Case #686: Peter Curtis Brackner
- Victims:Add info
- Bishopric counselor, Scout leader,
- Add info
- Add info
- He was an LDS church member in Purvis, Mississippi; served as second counselor in an LDS ward bishopric, and as scoutmaster; accused of sexual abuse.
- Case report »
Case #46: David Neil Brown
- Victims:Add info
- Scout leader, Ward choir director,
- During alleged crime: Scout leader,
- no
- Add info
- Guilty,
- The accused 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.
- Case report »
Case #47: Gary Wade Brown
- AKA Wade Brown
- Victims:Add info
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Born: 1967
- Scout leader,
- no
- Add info
- Guilty,
- The accused was a Mormon church member and scout leader in Utah; sentenced to one year in prison for sexually abusing one of his scouts.
- Case report »
Case #49: Paul J Bryant
- December 2023: registered sex offender; lives in Utah; pre-trial hearing scheduled for Dec. 11, 2023
- Victims:Add info
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Born: 1968
- Branch president, Missionary, Other leader, Primary teacher, Scout leader, Youth leader,
- Argentina - Argentina Cordoba 1987-1989
- yes | Add info
- Guilty, Ongoing criminal case,
- He was a Mormon church member in Utah; in 2016, pleaded guilty to three first-degree felony counts of attempted aggravated sexual abuse of a child; in 2016, was sentenced to prison; in 2023, pleaded not guilty to failure to register as sex offender; was an HOA president in Lehi, Utah.
- Case report »
Case #51: Gerald W Burgie
- Victims:Add info
- Scout leader,
- no
- Add info
- Guilty,
- The accused was a Mormon church member and scout leader in Utah; charged in 1981 with third degree felony foriclbe sexual abuse; convicted of attempted sexual abuse of a child.
- Case report »
Case #469: Mark Chapman
- Victims:2, 2+,
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Born: 1971
- Church janitor, Scout leader,
- Add info
- Add info
- Guilty, Plea agreement, Pleaded guilty, registered sex offender for life, Sentenced to prison,
- no civil case,
- He was an LDS church member and scout leader in Michigan; served 9 years in prison in New York for charges of engaging in criminal sexual conduct with a person below the age of 17; sentenced to prison in 2022 in MIchigan for sexually assaulting two children; some of the abuse took place at an LDS chapel.
- Case report »
Case #68: Michael James Clay
- AKA Mr. Clay, Professor Clay, Mike Clay
- June 26, 2023: sentenced to two years of probation and no jail time after agreeing in May 2023 to a plea deal of three reduced misdemeanor charges of sexual battery
- Victims:2+, 3,
-
Born: 1974
- BYU professor, Church employee, Scout leader, Youth leader,
- During alleged crime: BYU professor, Church employee,
- no
- 1998
- Convicted, No contest, Sentenced to community service, Sentenced to probation,
- no civil case,
- He was an LDS church member and BYU professor in Provo, Utah; charged with sexually abusing three students; entered a plea bargain in May 2023 in which he agreed to plead no contest to three class A misdemeanor charges of sexual battery, complete 24 months of probation, do 50 hours of community service, and take a sexual boundaries course; sentenced in June 2023 according to the plea deal.
- Case report »
Case #71: Dennis David Collins
- Victims:Add info
- Scout leader,
- no
- Add info
- Guilty,
- The accused was an LDS church member; pleaded guilty to child sexual abuse.
- Case report »
Case #76: Alfred Francis Cote
- AKA Fred Cote
- Victims:5+,
-
Born: 1958
- Scout leader,
- no
- Add info
- Guilty,
- The accused was a Mormon church member and Boy scout leader in New Hampshire and Nauvoo, Illinois; convicted in the 1980s and in 2020 of child sexual abuse.
- Case report »
Case #85: Luke Elbert Dalton
- AKA Lee Dalton; Luke Elbert Dalton Jr.
- Victims:Add info
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Born: 1941
- Scout leader,
- During alleged crime: Scout leader,
- no
- Add info
- Guilty,
- The accused was a Mormon church member; admitted to sexually abusing dozens of boys over decades in Ohio, Montana and Utah; arrested in 1997 in Utah for sexually abusing his only son; convicted and sentenced to prison; served 3.5 years in prison.
- Case report »
Case #92: Prescott Louis De Jean
- AKA Prescott Louis De Jean III, Prescott DeJean
- 2024: lives in Port Lavaca, Texas as a registered sex offender
- Victims:1,
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Born: 1955
- Scout leader, Youth leader,
- Add info
- Add info
- Alleged failure to report
- Convicted, Required to register as sex offender, Sentenced to prison, Sentenced to probation, Violated parole,
- The accused was a Mormon church member and scout leader in Texas; accused of sexual abuse; convicted between 1991 and 1997 of indecency with a child by contact; victim was 6 years old at the time of the abuse; convicted in 2013 of third degree felony failure to comply with sex offender registration requirements; as of March 2024, lives in Port Lavaca, Texas as a registered sex offender.
- Case report »
Case #96: Richard Lloyd Dilley
- AKA Dick Dilley
- 2024: lives in Airway Heights, Washington
- Victims:5+,
-
Born: 1959
- Scout leader, Sunday school teacher,
- During alleged crime: Scout leader,
- no
- Add info
- Convicted, Guilty, Pleaded guilty, Sentenced to prison,
- no civil case,
- The accused was an LDS church member and scout leader in Burien, near Seattle, Washington; dishonorably discharged from the Navy in 1983 after admitting to abusing boys in a Scouting program in Athens, Greece; pleaded guilty in 1990 to one count of third degree child rape and five counts of child molestation for "repeated" offenses over two years of the scouts in his LDS troop; sentenced to 9 years in prison.
- Case report »
Case #100: Alan Keith Dunn
- AKA Keith Dunn, Allan Dunn
- Victims:1,
-
Born: 1941
- Scout leader,
- During alleged crime: Scout leader,
- When accused: Scout leader,
- Add info
- Add info
- Alleged failure to report
- Unknown,
- no civil case,
- The accused was a Mormon church member and scout leader in Venice, California (Los Angeles); accused in 1978 of child sexual abuse; confessed to the police.
- Case report »
Case #103: Larry Van Dyke
- Victims:Add info
- Scout leader,
- no
- Add info
- The accused was a Mormon church member; accused of sexual abuse.
- Case report »
Case #104: Timur Van Dykes
- Victims:Add info
- Scout leader,
- no
- Add info
- Alleged failure to report
- Guilty,
Settlement paid by LDS church: $350,000
- He was a Mormon church member and scout leader in Oregon; accused of sexual abuse; convicted; in about 2009, the Mormon church paid $350,000 to a victim to settle its portion of a civil lawsuit.
- Case report »
Case #105: Oliver Dean Eames
- AKA Oliver D. Eames, Mr. Eames
- 2005: died in Utah
- Victims:5+,
-
Born: 1948
Died: 2005 - Other leader, Scout leader, Tabernacle Choir member,
- no
- Add info
- Guilty,
- He was an LDS church member, 6th grade teacher and Mormon Tabernacle Choir singer in Farmington, Utah; admitted to trying to fondle several children he had been hired to tutor; pleaded guilty in 1988 to two felony counts of attempted aggravated sexual abuse of a child; local police had documented 52 alleged child sexual abuse incidents involving him.
- Case report »
Case #679: Frederick Merlin Edvalson
- AKA Frederick Merlin Edvalson, Frederick Melvin Edvalson, Frederick Edvalson, Fredrick Edvalson, Fred Edvalson
- 2009: died in Utah
- Victims:1,
-
Born: 1920
Died: 2009 - High priest, High priest secretary, Home teacher, Other leader, Scout leader, scoutmaster,
- During alleged crime: Other leader,
- no
- 1971
- Alleged failure to report
- Convicted, Guilty,
- Civil case ongoing, lawsuit against LDS church,
- The accused was an LDS church member on Utah and Prince George's County, Maryland; convicted three times of sexual abuse in Maryland in the 1980s; third conviction: while on probation, groomed a 10-year-old girl and sexually assaulted her in a room inside a Mormon chapel on multiple occasions from 1983 to 1984; reportedly told her he was giving her "special religious training;" sentenced to 8 years in prison.
- Case report »
Case #109: Dennis Joe Empey
- Victims:Add info
-
Born: 1957
- Scout leader,
- During alleged crime: Scout leader,
- no
- Add info
- Guilty,
- The accused was a Mormon church member and scout leader in Idaho; accused of sexually abusing many children; his stake president allegedly knew Empey was abusing kids; convicted of child molestation in May 1991; sentenced to two years probation.
- Case report »
Case #477: Gary Edward Erickson
- 2018 or after: pleaded guilty; 2023: lives in West Jordan, Utah
- Victims:1,
-
Born: 1968
- Missionary, Other leader, Scout leader,
- Philippines - Philippines [unknown - served in Tacloban/Tolosa Leyte]
- 1990
- Guilty,
- He was an LDS church member, boy scout leader and Mesquite, Nevada police detective; was arrested in 2018, pleaded guilty to a charge of crossing state lines to engage in illicit sexual conduct.
- Case report »
Case #112: John Wood Fanning
- Victims:1,
- Scout leader,
- no
- Add info
- Admitted to wrongdoing, Unknown,
- The accused was a Mormon church member and scout leader in Utah; accused of sexual abuse in 1987 of a teenage boy during an overnight scouting activity.
- Case report »
Case #114: Stephen D Field
- Victims:Add info
- Scout leader,
- no
- Add info
- Guilty,
- The accused was a Mormon church member; accused of sexual abuse; sentenced to prison.
- Case report »
Case #115: Michael James Fischer
- Victims:Add info
- Scout leader, Youth leader,
- no
- Add info
- Guilty,
- The accused was a Mormon church member and young men's president; accused of sexual abuse; sentenced to prison.
- Case report »
Case #119: Jayne Allen Furness
- AKA Allen Furness
- 1987: died
- Victims:Add info
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Born: 1935
Died: 1987 - Scout leader,
- During alleged crime: Scout leader,
- Add info
- Add info
- Found guilty, Guilty, Sentenced to prison,
- no civil case,
- He was a Mormon church member and boy scout leader in Arroyo Grande, California; accused of sex abuse; found guilty of voyeurism charges in or before 1972, and found guilty of sexual abuse charges in 1976; sentenced in 1976 or 1977 to prison; died in 1987.
- Case report »
Case #134: Shawn Cory Gooden
- November 2023: sentenced in Virginia to up to 5 years in prison after pleading guilty to four felony counts; faces more charges in Pennsylvania
- Victims:2+,
-
Born: 1974
- Bishop, Scout leader, Stake high council, Stake presidency counselor, Youth leader,
- United States - Ohio Cleveland (Spanish speaking)
- yes | Add info
- Alleged failure to report
- Guilty, Ongoing criminal case, Sentenced to prison, Sentenced to probation,
- He was an LDS bishop in Lebanon, Pennsylvania from 2016-2020; arrested in 2022 and charged with sexual abuse of two children in Virginia from 1997-2000; pleaded guilty in July 2023 in Virginia to four felony counts; sentenced in November 2023 in Virginia to prison time and supervised probation on release; charged in July 2023 in Pennsylvania with more child sex abuse charges.
- Case report »
Case #671: Eric Griffin
- Victims:Add info
- Scout leader,
- Add info
- Add info
- He was an LDS church member and Boy Scout leader; accused of sexual abuse.
- Case report »
Case #142: Billy Joe Hagen
- Victims:Add info
- Scout leader,
- no
- Add info
- Guilty,
- The accused was a Mormon church member and scout leader in Idaho; accused of sexual abuse; convicted, sentenced to prison.
- Case report »
Case #144: Dustin Hall
- AKA Dusty Rhodes, Dusty Hall
- Victims:Add info
- Scout leader,
- During alleged crime: Scout leader,
- no
- Add info
- Alleged failure to report
- Civil case result unknown,
- He was a Mormon church member in Washington state; accused of sexually abusing boys in the Shelton Ward near Olympia.
- Case report »
Case #149: Leroy Ball Hamblin
- AKA Leroy B. Hamblin
- Victims:Add info
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Born: 1947
- Missionary, Scout leader,
- When accused: Scout leader,
- United Kingdom - Southwest British 1966-1968
- 1969
- Guilty,
- The accused was a Webelos scout leader in Kaysville, Utah; pleaded guilty in 1987 to lewdness with a child; served prison time.
- Case report »
Case #150: Steven LeRoy Hammock
- Victims:1,
- Scout leader, Sunday school teacher,
- no
- Add info
- Alleged failure to report
- Guilty,
- Civil judgement in favor of plaintiff,
- He was an LDS church member in Utah; pleaded guilty in 1983 to two counts of forcible sex abuse of a child and served six months in an inpatient treatment facility; the LDS church excommunicated him, but during a civil suit filed in 1989 by the victim, it refused to divulge information that Hammock had previously revealed to church officials; in 1994, a federal judge awarded damages to the victim.
- Case report »
Case #151: Kenneth L Hanigan
- Victims:Add info
- Scout leader,
- no
- Add info
- The accused was an LDS church member; accused of sexual abuse.
- Case report »
Case #152: Eugene Albert Hansen
- AKA Jene Hansen
- Victims:Add info
-
Born: 1940
- Scout leader,
- no
- Add info
- Unknown,
- no civil case,
- He was a Mormon church member and scout leader in California; accused of child sexual abuse.
- Case report »
Case #154: Jeffrey Lee Hardin
- AKA Jeff Hardin
- Victims:Add info
- Scout leader,
- During alleged crime: Scout leader,
- no
- Add info
- Guilty,
- The accused was a Mormon church member and scout leader in Idaho; convicted of lewd conduct with a minor in October 1991.
- Case report »
Case #158: Kenneth Morgan Harper
- AKA Kim
- Victims:Add info
- Scout leader,
- Add info
- Add info
- Guilty,
- The accused was an LDS church member; accused of sexual abuse.
- Case report »
Case #159: Lynn W Harrison
- Victims:Add info
- Scout leader,
- no
- Add info
- The accused was an LDS church member; accused of sexual abuse.
- Case report »
Case #163: Vance Paul Hein
- 2012: sentenced to 15 to 30 years in prison for possessing child pornography
- Victims:Add info
-
Born: 1951
- Scout leader,
- During alleged crime: Scout leader,
- Add info
- Add info
- Guilty,
- He was an LDS church member and scoutmaster in West Bradford, Pennsylvania; was convicted in 1999 of a misdemeanor for sexually abusing one of his boy scouts; sentenced in 2000 to 15 years of probation; arrested in 2011 for possessing child pornography; sentenced in 2012 to 15 to 30 years in prison.
- Case report »
Case #168: Michael L Hicks
- Victims:Add info
- Scout leader,
- Add info
- Add info
- Guilty,
- The accused was an LDS church member; accused of sexual abuse; sentenced to prison.
- Case report »
Case #171: James Francis Hogan
- Victims:Add info
-
Born: 1939
- Church employee, Scout leader,
- no
- Add info
- Alleged failure to report
- Guilty, Pleaded guilty, Sentenced to prison,
- Civil settlement,
Settlement paid by LDS church: Yes (undisclosed amount)
- The accused was a Mormon church member and scout leader in Oregon; in 1989, was sentenced to five years in prison for child sexual abuse; released in 1994; in 2011, a victim filed a civil lawsuit against the Boy Scouts of America, seeking $5.2 million.
- Case report »
Case #173: Joel Elisla Houck
- Victims:Add info
- Scout leader,
- no
- Add info
- The accused was an LDS church member; accused of sexual abuse.
- Case report »
Case #178: Robert Bentley Jackson
- Victims:1,
-
Born: 1942
- Bishopric counselor, BYU professor, Scout leader,
- no
- Add info
- Guilty, Sentenced to prison,
- The accused was a former assistant BYU professor and Mormon bishopric member in Provo, Utah; sentenced to two years in prison in 2006 for video recording a 14-year-old undressing.
- Case report »
Case #181: Paul M Jellum
- Victims:Add info
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Born: 1959
- Scout leader,
- no
- Add info
- He was an LDS church member; accused of sexual abuse a boy scout in his troop.
- Case report »
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