Case #502: Terry George Allen
- AKA Terry Allen
- 2024: registered sex offender; lives in Grapevine, Texas
- Victims:10+,
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Born: 1943
- Bishopric counselor, High priest, Stake high council, Stake public communications director, Sunday school president, Sunday school teacher, Ward music director, Youth leader,
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- Alleged failure to report
- Guilty, Required to register as sex offender, Sentenced to prison,
- no civil case,
- The accused was an LDS church member in California; in 1987, was found guilty of sexual abuse of a child and was sentenced to six years in prison; was assigned to multiple trusted church positions, including Sunday school president, despite the Mormon church being aware that he had raped a teenager; LDS leaders were accused of hiding his abuse from local church members; as of 2024, lives in Grapevine, Texas.
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Case #371: Coy Glen Ball
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Born: 1954
- boy scouts leader, Santa Claus, Sunday school teacher,
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- Guilty,
- The accused was an LDS church member in Mesa, Arizona; was charged with 11 various abuses to a child; pled guilty to 3 counts of Molestation of a child.
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Case #385: Nelson Bogero
- Victims:Add info
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Born: 1953
- Sunday school teacher,
- During alleged crime: Sunday school teacher,
- When accused: Sunday school teacher,
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- Alleged failure to report
- Unknown,
- The accused was an LDS church member and Sunday school teacher in Cordoba, Argentina; accused in 2017 of sexual abuse of multiple children ages 7 to 11; a local LDS leader allegedly knew about the abuse but failed to report to police.
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Case #43: Jimmy Earl Brooks
- Victims:Add info
- Sunday school teacher,
- During alleged crime: Sunday school teacher,
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- The accused was a Mormon church member in Texas; charged with child sexual abuse in 1994.
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Case #57: Raphael Giuseppe Caccioppoli
- 2008: sentenced in New Zealand to five years in jail for child sexual abuse and animal sex abuse (bestiality)
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Born: 1971
- Sunday school teacher,
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- Alleged failure to report
- Guilty,
- He was a Mormon church Sunday school teacher, lawyer and Justice Ministry judicial officer in New Zealand; confessed sex crime behavior to a Mormon bishop in 1998; LDS leaders did not tell police or local parents of children he was left alone to supervise; turned himself in to police in 2007; sentenced to five years in jail for child sexual abuse and animal sex abuse (bestiality).
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Case #63: Jon Rick Carpenter
- AKA Rick Carpenter, Jon Ricks Carpenter, John Ricks Carpenter, Jon Rick Carpenter, Jon Richard Carpenter
- Victims:Add info
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Born: 1964
- Sunday school teacher,
- During alleged crime: Sunday school teacher,
- no
- Add info
- Guilty,
- The accused was an LDS church member; sentenced to prison for child sexual abuse; the day after sentencing, injured himself to avoid serving longer in prison.
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Case #830: Bret Anthony Chesworth
- AKA Brett Chesworth
- May 2023: eligible for parole
- Victims:Add info
- Sunday school teacher,
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- Guilty, Pleaded guilty,
- The accused was a Mormon church member in Australia; pleaded guilty to 7 charges of child abuse and bestiality including downloading images; he was caught in an international sting operation involving Australian and US agencies.
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Case #84: Franklyn Richard Curtis
- AKA Franklin Richard Curtis, Frank Curtis, Brother Curtis
- 1995: died
- Victims:10+,
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Born: 1903
Died: 1995 - High priest, Sunday school teacher,
- During alleged crime: High priest, Sunday school teacher,
- no
- Add info
- Alleged failure to report
- Guilty,
Settlement paid by LDS church: $3,000,000
- The accused was a Mormon church member in Pennsylvania and Oregon; excommunicated in 1983 in Pennsylvania for sex abuse; rebaptized in 1984; molested five boys in Oregon; local LDS bishop knew but didn't report to police; convicted in 1995 in Oregon of sexual abuse; died in 1995.
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Case #462: Robert Norman Dahle
- AKA Bob
- Victims:1,
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Born: 1937
Died: 2022 - Sunday school teacher,
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- The accused was an LDS church member, Utah Highway Patrol trooper; alleged rapist of a 13-year-old girl.
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Case #91: Thomas Eugene Dawkins
- AKA Gene Dawkins
- 2023: lives in South Carolina
- Victims:Add info
- Sunday school teacher,
- During alleged crime: Sunday school teacher,
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- Conviction overturned, Guilty,
- He was an LDS church member in South Carolina; accused of sexual abuse; convicted in 1986; the conviction was later overturned.
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Case #96: Richard Lloyd Dilley
- AKA Dick Dilley
- 2024: lives in Airway Heights, Washington
- Victims:5+,
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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.
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Case #697: Jane Doe
- Victims:1,
- Sunday school teacher,
- During alleged crime: Sunday school teacher,
- Add info
- Add info
- Sentenced to jail,
- The accused was an LDS church member in Australia; accused of sexual abuse.
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Case #113: David Brian Farley
- AKA David B. Farley, Dr. Farley
- February 2024: lives in Nephi, Utah; February 2024: the city of West Linn, Oregon released a report about the way its police department investigated Farley
- Victims:200+,
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Born: 1958
- Primary teacher, Stake high council, Sunday school teacher,
- During alleged crime: Primary teacher, Stake high council, Sunday school teacher,
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- Never charged,
- no civil case,
- He was a former doctor and LDS church member in Oregon; accused of sexually abusing over 200 patients; the alleged abuse occurred over a span of many years, during which Farley was an LDS stake high council member for some time; never criminally charged; in February 2024, the city of West Linn, Oregon released a report about the way its police department investigated Farley.
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Case #117: David Scott Frank
- Victims:Add info
- Sunday school teacher,
- During alleged crime: Sunday school teacher,
- no
- Add info
- Unknown,
- Civil case result unknown,
- He was an LDS Sunday school teacher in Colorado; accused of sexual abuse in a civil lawsuit.
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Case #123: Kevin Stacy Garn
- Victims:1,
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Born: 1955
- Bishop, Sunday school teacher,
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- yes | Add info
- Alleged failure to report
- Never charged,
- no civil case,
- The accused was a former Utah House majority leader and LDS bishop in Utah; admitted in 2010 to a nude encounter with a 15-year-old girl in a hot tub in 1985, when he was 28.
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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.
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Case #198: Ronald Lynn Kerlee
- AKA Ron Kerlee
- Victims:1,
- Seminary teacher, Sunday school teacher, Youth leader,
- no
- Add info
- Alleged failure to report
- Convicted,
- Civil case ongoing,
- He was a Mormon seminary teacher, Sunday school leader and youth leader in Corvallis, Oregon; convicted of Sodomy III (Class C Felony) for sexual abuse of a child; accused of sexually abusing multiple children; was also a licensed counselor in Oregon until his license was revoked in 2014 after he allegedly engaged in sexual activities with a male client.
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Case #202: William Eugene Knox
- AKA Bill Knox, Bill E. Knox
- Victims:Add info
- Scout leader, Sunday school teacher,
- no
- Add info
- He was a Mormon church member and scout leader; accused of sexually abusing multiple children.
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Case #203: Keith Benjamin Knutson
- 2023-03-08: Lives in Lynnwood, Washington
- Victims:Add info
- Sunday school teacher,
- no
- Add info
- Guilty,
- He was a Mormon church member in Seattle, Washington; pleaded guilty of child sexual abuse in 1995.
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Case #262: Hugh Winder Nibley
- 2005-02-24: died in Provo, Utah
- Victims:1,
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Born: 1910
Died: 2005 - BYU professor, Home teacher, Missionary, Sunday school teacher,
- Germany - Germany 1927-1930
- 1946
- Never charged,
- no civil case,
- He was a prominent LDS scholar in Utah; in 2005, was publicly accused by his daughter of childhood sexual abuse against her; died in 2005 in Provo, Utah; was never charged with a sex crime.
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Case #273: Spencer John Palmer
- 2000: died
- Victims:1,
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Born: 1927
Died: 2000 - Bishop, BYU professor, Mission president, Missionary, Other leader, Sunday school teacher, Temple president,
- United States - California 1947-1949
- 1956
- Never charged,
- He was a Mormon temple endowment ceremony actor, BYU professor, mission president, temple president, LDS church area authority; posthumously accused of child sexual abuse by his grandson.
- was a mission president, temple president, LDS church area authority, and personal friend of Mormon prophet Gordon B. Hinckley.
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Case #276: John Edward Parkinson
- AKA John E. Parkinson
- 2024: lives in Fairfield, California
- Victims:10+, 2+, 20+, 5+, 50+,
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Born: 1931
- Stake presidency counselor, Stake president, Sunday school teacher,
- During alleged crime: Stake presidency counselor, Stake president,
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- Alleged failure to report
- Convicted, Conviction overturned, Guilty, Jury trial, Sentenced to prison,
- He was a Mormon stake president (1981-1991) and physician in Fairfield, California; sentenced to prison in 1997 for sexually abusing two female patients, but the judge delayed the sentence pending an appeal; his conviction was later reversed.
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Case #290: Byron Lloyd Poelman
- AKA President Poelman
- 2014: died
- Victims:Add info
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Born: 1934
Died: 2014 - Bishop, Bishopric counselor, Mission president, Missionary, Stake high council, Stake president, Sunday school teacher,
- During alleged crime: Stake president,
- When accused: Stake president,
- Netherlands - Netherlands
- 1963
- Alleged failure to report
- Guilty,
- He was a bishop and stake president in Utah and partner in a law firm that represented the LDS church; arrested in 1994 for soliciting a prostitute; pleaded guilty to a class B misdemeanor charge of patronizing a prostitute.
- was a partner in the Mormon church's law firm Kirton, McConkie and Poelman; the firm dropped Poelman's name shortly after he was caught doing a sex crime; Poelmans' brother Ronald was a member of the First Quorum of the Seventy.
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Case #306: Lowell Robison
- 2018: died by suicide
- Victims:2+,
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Born: 1944
Died: 2018 - Bishop, Bishopric counselor, Elders quorum presidency member, Elders quorum president, Elders quorum secretary, Mission president, Missionary, Scout leader, Stake high council, Stake presidency counselor, Stake president, Sunday school teacher, Teachers quorum adviser,
- During alleged crime: Mission president,
- Mexico - Southeast Mexican 1963-1965
- 1966
- Alleged failure to report
- Never charged,
- no civil case,
- He was a Mormon mission president in the Mexico Leon mission (1995-1998) when he allegedly sexually abused multiple missionaries; accused in 2018 of the alleged abuse; two months later, died by suicide.
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Case #352: Brent E Taylor
- AKA Mr. Taylor
- June 2023: A warrant has been issued for Taylor's arrest; September 2023: Taylor has seemingly vanished, after his nurse either accidentally or purposely overdosed and died
- Victims:Add info
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Born: 1948
- Sunday school teacher, Youth leader,
- During alleged crime: Sunday school teacher,
- Add info
- no
- Ongoing criminal case,
- He was the Utah Valley Youth Symphony orchestra director, and an LDS Sunday school teacher; accused in 2018 of sexually abusing multiple boys; a judge issued a warrant in June 2023 for Taylor's arrest, ruling that he had exaggerated his health issues to avoid trial; as of September 2023, was found to have disappeared after his nurse overdosed on drugs and died.
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Case #481: Kendall Doyle Traxler
- 1991: died
- Victims:1,
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Born: 1969
Died: 2015 - Sunday school teacher, Youth leader,
- During alleged crime: Sunday school teacher,
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- Alleged failure to report
- Never charged,
- no civil case,
- The accused was an LDS church member in Gallman and Hazelhurst, Mississippi; died in 2015; a victim told FLOODLIT that Traxler sexually abused them when they were a child; the abuse allegedly took place during Sunday branch meetings; the branch president and stake president allegedly knew about the abuse but failed to report it to law enforcement.
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Case #408: Sterling Gray Van Wagenen
- Victims:Add info
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Born: 1947
- BYU professor, Stake high council, Sunday school teacher,
- Add info
- Add info
- Alleged failure to report
- Guilty,
- The accused was a co-founder of Sundance Film Festival and director of some Mormon temple endowment videos; publicly accused of sexual abuse of two children in two separate instances; sentenced to prison in 2019 for child sexual abuse.
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Case #418: Ryan Dee Whitaker
- 2023 - registered sex offender in Washington state
- Victims:Add info
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Born: 1953
- Missionary, Primary teacher, Sunday school teacher,
- During alleged crime: Sunday school teacher,
- Spain - Spain - unknown city/area
- yes | Add info
- Guilty,
- He was an LDS church member and divorce lawyer in Vancouver, Washington; charged with sexually abusing a 9-year-old girl in his Sunday School class during church meetings; found guilty; registered sex offender.
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