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Former LDS/Mormon church scout leaders who have been publicly accused or found guilty of sexual abuse or sex crimes.

  • Arnold, Larren Bybee 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
    1935-
  • Avant, Eric Patrick was a Mormon church member and cub scout leader; was sentenced to 26 years in prison for molesting eight boys
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  • Barber, Norman Carl was a Mormon church member; scout leader, molested two 15-year-old girls
    1947-
  • Bishop, Arthur Gary 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
    1952-1988
  • Blankenship, Wyman C was a Mormon church member; scout leader, pleaded guilty to molesting boys
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  • Borg, David James was a Mormon church member and scout leader; pleaded guilty to molesting multiple boys; sentenced to 34 years in prison
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  • Bowers, Jack Earl was a Mormon church member in 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
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  • Brown, David Neil 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
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  • Brown, Gary Wade was a Mormon church member and scout leader in Utah; sentenced to one year in prsion for sexually abusing one of his scouts
    1967-
  • Burgie, Gerald W was a Mormon church member and scout leader; convicted of attempted sexual abuse of a child
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  • Chapman, Mark church member, scout leader; sentenced to prison for sexually assaulting two of his boy scouts
    1971-
  • Cote, Alfred Francis was a Mormon church member; accused of sexual abuse; found guilty more than once
    1958-
  • Dalton, Luke Elbert 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
    1941-
  • Darrell, Buckland Lee was an LDS church member and Primary teacher in the Redmond, Washington area (Sammamish); charged with first degree felony child molestation in December 2022 and again in March 2023 (two separate victims, both little boys)
    1979-
  • De Jean, Prescott Louis was a Mormon church member; accused of sexual abuse
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  • Dilley, Richard Lloyd was an LDS church member in Washington state; sentenced to prison for raping at least one of his boy scouts
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  • Dunn, Allan Keith was a Mormon church member; accused of sexual abuse; confessed to the police
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  • Dyke, Larry Van was a Mormon church member; accused of sexual abuse
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  • Dykes, Timur Van was a Mormon church member; accused of sexual abuse; convicted
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  • Eames, Oliver K was a Mormon church member; accused of sexual abuse; pleaded guilty
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  • Empey, Dennis Joe 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
    1957-
  • Erickson, Gary Edward was an LDS church member and Mesquite, Nevada police detective; was arrested in 2018, pleaded guilty to a charge of crossing state lines to engage in illicit sexual conduct
    1968-
  • Fanning, John Wood accused was a Mormon church member; accused of sexual abuse
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  • Field, Stephen D was a Mormon church member; accused of sexual abuse; sentenced to prison
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  • Fischer, Michael James was a Mormon church member and young men's president; accused of sexual abuse; sentenced to prison
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  • Hagen, Billy Joe was a Mormon church member and scout leader in Idaho; accused of sexual abuse; convicted, sentenced to prison
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  • Hall, Dustin was a Mormon church member in Washington state; accused of sexually abusing boys in the Shelton Ward near Olympia
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  • Hamblin, Leroy Ball was a Webelos scout leader in Kaysville, Utah; pleaded guilty in 1987 to lewdness with a child; served prison time
    1947-
  • Hanigan, Kenneth L was an LDS church member; accused of sexual abuse
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  • 1940-
  • Hardin, Jeffrey Lee was a Mormon church member and scout leader in Idaho; convicted of lewd conduct with a minor in October 1991
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  • Harper, Kenneth Morgan was an LDS church member; accused of sexual abuse
    2023-unknown
  • Harrison, Lynn W was an LDS church member; accused of sexual abuse
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  • Hein, Vance Paul was an LDS church member and scoutmaster; was convicted in 1999 of a misdemeanor for sexually abusing one of his boy scouts; later was sentenced to 15 to 30 years for possessing child pornography
    1951-
  • Hicks, Michael L was an LDS church member; accused of sexual abuse; sentenced to prison
    2023-unknown
  • Houck, Joel Elisla was an LDS church member; accused of sexual abuse
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  • Jellum, Paul M was an LDS church member; accused of sexual abuse
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  • Jenkins, Ronald Alvin was an LDS church member and scout leader in Idaho; accused of sexual abuse; convicted of Lewd Conduct with a minor in April 1996; sentenced to 17 years in prison
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  • Jones, Harry O was an LDS church member in Illinois; sentenced to 30 months of probation for possession of child pornography
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  • Judd, Larry Wright was an LDS church member in Mesa, Arizona; accused of sexual abuse; admitted to molesting 12 girls over a period of about 20 years
    2023-unknown
  • Kay, Stephen was a Mormon church member; accused of sexual abuse
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  • Kempton, Robert Glenn was an Mormon bishop, stake president and attorney in Arizona; arrested in 2014 in a police sting for underage prostitution
    1942-2018
  • King, Willis Dale was an LDS church member; accused of sexual abuse; pleaded guilty
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  • Knox, William Eugene was a Mormon church member and scout leader; accused of sexually abusing his stepchildren
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  • Lewis, Paul H was a Mormon church member; accused of sexual abuse
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  • Libey, Lawrence was an LDS church member and scout leader in Idaho; accused of sexual abuse
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  • Loholt, Jack was an LDS church member; accused of sexual abuse
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  • Mathias, Craig Ralph Boy scout leader, LDS church member; convicted for sexually molesting multiple boy scouts
    1960-
  • Mathias, Franklin Leon former Mormon church member and Boy scout leader; sentenced to prison for molesting an 11 year old boy during an LDS sunday school class
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  • Matlock, James R was a Mormon church member; pleaded guilty to child sexual abuse
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  • Maxfield, Norman Arthur was an LDS church member, high school drama teacher; convicted in 1988 of sexually abusing boys
    1944-
  • Pratt, Carl Dee was a Mormon bishop in San Manuel, Arizona; allegedly sexually abused a boy in his ward
    1930-2006
  • Price, Robert Scott was an LDS church member and scout leader in Idaho; sentenced to prison for child sexual abuse
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  • Rarick, Kenneth R was a Mormon church member in Alaska; accused of sexual abuse; convicted
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  • Ray, Chance Lee was a Mormon church member and scout leader in the Mesa, Arizona area; convicted of child sexual abuse and sentenced to prison in Arizona; spent approximately 14 years in prison; released in July 2020
    1980-
  • Richins, Leroy Harvey was a Mormon church member; accused of sexual abuse
    2023-unknown
  • Schliesser, George M was a Mormon church member and primary teacher in Utah; accused of sexual abuse
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  • Schmidt, James Phillip was an LDS church member; sentenced to prison for child sexual abuse
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  • Stillwell, Robert David was a Mormon church member and local Boy scout leader; accused of sexual abuse in 1987; convicted in 1993 and 1998 in separate cases of child sexual abuse
    1964-
  • Stowell, Bradley Grant was a Mormon church member and scout leader in Idaho; confessed to sexually abusing 24 boys; pleaded guilty to molesting two boys; sentenced to 150 days in prison and 15 years of probation; local LDS church coverup alleged
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  • Tilson, George was a Mormon church member; pleaded guilty to child sexual abuse
    2023-2023
  • Washburn, Allen B was a Mormon church member in Utah; accused of sexual abuse
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  • White, Emmett was a Mormon church member; accused of sexual abuse
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  • Wright, Harvey Dee was an LDS church member, scout leader; placed on the BSA Confidential files for "attempted Sexual abuse/Dangerous Crime Against Children in the Second Degree"; pleaded guilty
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  • Young, Jimmy D was a Mormon church member and scout leader; arrested for sexually abusing a scout in his troop
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