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John Wood Fanning
- Victims: 1 victim,
- LDS positions: Scout leader,
- LDS mission: no
- Criminal case: Admitted guilt, 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.
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Matthew Collin Felshaw
- Latest update: no current registration on Idaho Sex offender list as of 2024-04-10
- Victims: 1 victim,
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Born: 1980
- LDS mission: unknown
- The accused was a Mormon church member in Caldwell, Idaho; charged with sexually assaulting a young child; took a plea deal and was convicted of Injury to child; received suspended prison sentence and 8 years probation and has to register as a sex offender.
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Christopher Lee Fleming
- Latest update: Currently Incarcerated: DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTIONS, RICHMOND, VA 23225
- Victims: 1 victim,
- LDS positions: Youth leader,
- LDS mission: Unknown country -
- Leaders allegedly hid sex crimes
- Criminal case: Convicted,
- The accused was an LDS church member in Chesapeake, Virginia; found guilty of 10 counts of various sexual abuse to a minor; currently incarcerated in Virginia.
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Richard Freeman
- Victims: 1 victim,
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Born: 1963
- LDS mission: unknown
- Criminal case: Convicted, Prison,
- Civil case: No civil case,
- The accused was an LDS church member and high school teacher in Fresno, California; accused of sexual abuse; convicted; moved to Provo, Utah.
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Daniel Adam Galloway
- Victims: 1 victim,
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Born: 1973
- LDS positions: Youth leader,
- LDS mission: unknown
- Criminal case: Convicted,
- The accused was an LDS church member in Arizona City, Pinal County, Arizona; found guilty of sexually abusing an 8 year old foster child.
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Kevin Stacy Garn
- Victims: 1 victim,
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Born: 1955
- LDS positions: Bishop, Sunday school teacher,
- LDS mission: unknown
- Leaders allegedly hid sex crimes
- Criminal case: Never charged, Not convicted,
- Civil case: 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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Jeffrey Alan Gatlin
- Latest update: Inmate No. 25110 Central Utah Correctional Facility Housing: CUCF Boulder
- Victims: 1 victim,
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Born: 1967
- LDS positions: Unknown,
- LDS mission: unknown
- Criminal case: Convicted,
- The accused was an LDS church member in Utah; found guilty of aggravated sexual abuse of a child/1st degree felony; as of October 2023, serving in Central Utah Correctional Facility Housing in Boulder, Utah, CUCF Boulder.
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Luis Gonzales
- Victims: 1 victim,
- LDS positions: Bishop,
- LDS mission: unknown
- Leaders allegedly hid sex crimes
- Criminal case: Convicted,
- He was a Mormon bishop in Sacramento, California; charged with 20 counts of child molestation, battery, rape, bigamy, stalking, and fraud; in 2002, was found guilty of bigamy, spousal abuse (battery) and child molestation.
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Roger David Gunn
- Latest update: As of 2024-01-22 Gunn was reported to live in Bonita California. (San Diego area)
- Victims: 1 victim,
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Born: 1956
- LDS mission: Unknown country -
- Criminal case: Convicted,
- The accused was an LDS church member in Spanish Fork, Utah; found guilty of SEX ABUSE OF A CHILD - 2nd Degree Felony; currently lives in Bonita, California.
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Lincoln A Gygi
- Victims: 1 victim,
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Born: 1988
- LDS positions: Unknown,
- LDS mission: unknown
- He was a Mormon church member in Pleasant Grove Utah; found guilty of sexually abusing a 7 year old boy.
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Matthew John Hack
- AKA Matthew Hack Jr
- Victims: 1 victim,
- LDS positions: Bishopric counselor, Stake high council,
- LDS mission: no
- Criminal case: Convicted, No contest,
- He was a Mormon church member and stake high council member in Oklahoma; accused in 2019 of child sexual abuse; pleaded no contest to an amended charge of child neglect.
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Albert Dee Halladay
- Victims: 1 victim,
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Born: 1930
- LDS positions: Bishop,
- LDS mission: unknown
- Criminal case: Convicted, Pleaded guilty,
- Civil case: No civil case,
- The accused was a former LDS bishop in Sandy, Utah; accused of sexual abuse in 1988; pleaded guilty in 1989 to one second degree felony charge of sex abuse of a child; convicted.
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Steven LeRoy Hammock
- Victims: 1 victim,
- LDS positions: Scout leader, Sunday school teacher,
- LDS mission: no
- Leaders allegedly hid sex crimes
- Criminal case: Convicted,
- Civil case: Civil judgment 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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Cletus James Hanifin
- AKA Jim Hanifin
- Latest update: Died October 2021
- Victims: 1 victim,
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Born: 1939
Died: 2021
- LDS mission: unknown
- The accused was an LDS church member in Boulder, Colorado; accused of sexually abusing a young teenage girl in his home, while his wife was away.
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Brent Dixson Hansen
- Latest update: Died in 2015
- Victims: 1 victim,
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Born: 1938
- LDS positions: Bishop, Bishopric counselor, High priest group leader, Scout leader, Stake high council, Sunday school president, Youth leader,
- LDS mission: unknown
- The accused was an LDS church member and dentist in Spanish Fork, Utah; accused of receiving sexual favors from a dentistry patient in return for prescriptions for narcotics.
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Kent Blaine Hansen
- Latest update: Died in 2019
- Victims: 1 victim,
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Born: 1938
- LDS positions: Bishop, Missionary, Senior missionary, Stake president,
- LDS mission: United States - Honolulu/Senior Mission Canada Toronto West Mission
- The accused was an LDS church member and dentist in Spanish Fork, Utah; accused of receiving sexual favors from a dentistry patient in return for prescriptions for narcotics.
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Maurice Wade Harker
- AKA Dr. Harker
- Latest update: 2023: charged with aggravated abuse of a vulnerable adult and kidnapping, both second-degree felonies
- Victims: 1 victim,
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Born: 1969
- LDS positions: Missionary,
- LDS mission: United States - Michigan Dearborn 1988-1990
- Leaders allegedly hid sex crimes
- Criminal case: Ongoing,
- Civil case: No civil case,
- He was an LDS church member and therapist in Utah; accused of psychologically and physically harming sexual abuse victims who came to him as patients; charged in September 2023 with felony aggravated abuse of a vulnerable adult and kidnapping.
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Ashlyn Amy Harvey
- Victims: 1 victim,
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Born: 1989
- LDS mission: unknown
- Criminal case: Ongoing,
- The accused was an LDS church member in Gunnison, Utah; accused in 2024 of sexual contact with a 17-year-old student for whom she was a substitute teacher.
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Daniel Smoot Henshaw
- Latest update: 2023: found competent to stand trial on charges of plotting to rape and murder a Logan, Utah woman
- Victims: 1 victim,
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Born: 1990
- LDS positions: Missionary,
- LDS mission: Unknown country -
- Leaders allegedly hid sex crimes
- Criminal case: Convicted, Jail, Ongoing,
- He was a Mormon church member in Logan, Utah; accused of sexual abuse; convicted in 2019 of sexually abusing a 3-year-old girl; sentenced to seven months in jail; arrested in 2023 and found competent to stand trial on charges of plotting to rape and murder a Logan, Utah woman.
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Brandon Osorio Hernandez
- Victims: 1 victim,
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Born: 1999
- LDS positions: Other leader,
- LDS mission: unknown
- Criminal case: Convicted, Plea agreement, Pleaded guilty, Unknown,
- Civil case: No civil case,
- The accused was an LDS church member in Tempe, Arizona; accused of sexually abusing a victim inside a Mormon church; convicted of four fourth degree felony counts of abuse of a child or vulnerable adult.
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Kenneth Higa
- Victims: 1 victim,
- LDS positions: Unknown,
- LDS mission: unknown
- The accused was an LDS church member in Orem Utah and karate teacher; accused of sexual abuse of a 14 year old girl, one of his karate students; Higa unable to pass a court ordered competency test the case was unable to proceed.
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Lawrence Steven Huffman
- AKA Larry, Larry Huffman
- Latest update: Is a registered sex offender living in Hutchinson, Kansas
- Victims: 1 victim, Multiple victims,
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Born: 1967
- LDS mission: unknown
- Criminal case: Pleaded guilty,
- The accused was an LDS church member in Mound City, Kansas; found guilty of sodomizing a minor; lives in Hutchinson, Kansas.
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Robert Bentley Jackson
- Victims: 1 victim,
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Born: 1942
- LDS positions: Bishopric counselor, BYU professor, Scout leader,
- LDS mission: no
- Criminal case: Convicted, 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.
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Bruce T Jeppesen
- Victims: 1 victim,
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Born: 1956
- LDS positions: Elders quorum president,
- LDS mission: no
- Criminal case: Convicted,
- He was a former Mormon elders quorum president; sentenced to two concurrent terms of 15 years in the Utah State Prison for raping a child .
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David John Keller
- AKA Dave Keller
- Latest update: May 2024: admitted to child sexual abuse and was charged with seven first-degree felony counts of aggravated sexual abuse of a child
- Victims: 1 victim,
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Born: 1970
- LDS positions: Stake presidency counselor, Sunday school teacher, Temple worker,
- LDS mission: unknown
- Criminal case: Admitted guilt, Ongoing,
- Civil case: No civil case,
- The accused was a Mormon temple worker, Sunday school teacher and former stake presidency member in Paradise, Cache Valley, Utah; admitted in May 2024 to child sexual abuse and was charged with seven first-degree felony counts of aggravated sexual abuse of a child.
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Ronald Lynn Kerlee
- AKA Ron Kerlee
- Victims: 1 victim,
- LDS positions: Seminary teacher, Sunday school teacher, Youth leader,
- LDS mission: no
- Leaders allegedly hid sex crimes
- Criminal case: Convicted,
- Civil case: Ongoing civil case,
- 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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Timothy David Kimball
- AKA Tim Kimball, Dr. Kimball
- Latest update: 2023: died by suicide
- Victims: 1 victim,
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Born: 1979
Died: 2023
- LDS positions: Missionary, Other leader,
- LDS mission: United States - Carlsbad California (Spanish speaking) 1998-2000
- Criminal case: Died awaiting trial, Not convicted, Suicide,
- Civil case: No civil case,
- He was an LDS church member in San Antonio, Texas; charged in 2022 with child sexual abuse; died by suicide in June 2023 while awaiting indictment.
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McKenna Aileen Kindred
- Victims: 1 victim,
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Born: 1998
- LDS positions: Unknown,
- LDS mission: unknown
- Criminal case: Ongoing,
- The accused was an LDS church member and high school teacher in Spokane Valley, Washington; accused of having a sexual relationship with a 17 year old student at the high school where she taught.
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Christopher W Kite
- Victims: 1 victim,
- LDS mission: no
- Leaders allegedly hid sex crimes
- Criminal case: Unknown,
- Civil case: lawsuit against LDS church, Unknown result,
- He was an LDS church member in Chicago, Illinois; accused of sexual abuse.
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Cody Jonathan Lara
- Victims: 1 victim,
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Born: 1990
- LDS positions: Unknown,
- LDS mission: unknown
- Criminal case: Convicted,
- The accused was an LDS church member in Arizona City, Pinal County, Arizona; accused of sexual abuse in 2018; convicted in 2019 of three reduced counts of abuse of a child or vulnerable adult.
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Michael Lynn Larsen
- AKA Mike Larsen
- Latest update: 2023: lives in Tooele, Utah
- Victims: 1 victim,
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Born: 1963
- LDS positions: Unknown,
- LDS mission: Unknown country -
- Criminal case: Convicted,
- The accused was an LDS church member and scout leader in Utah; convicted in the 1980s of child sexual abuse; as of 2023, lives in Tooele, Utah.
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George Patrick Lee
- AKA George P. Lee
- Latest update: 2010: died
- Victims: 1 victim,
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Born: 1943
Died: 2010
- LDS positions: General authority, Mission president, Other leader, Seventy,
- LDS mission: unknown
- Criminal case: Convicted,
- Civil case: No civil case,
- The accused was a former LDS general authority; pleaded guilty to attempted sexual abuse of a child, a third-degree felony.
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Paul H Lewis
- Victims: 1 victim,
- LDS positions: Scout leader,
- LDS mission: no
- Leaders allegedly hid sex crimes
- Criminal case: Never charged, Not convicted,
- Civil case: Unknown result,
- He was a Mormon church member and scout leader in Seattle, Washington; accused of sexual abuse; the victim sued the Mormon church in 2006.
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Robert Eric Longman
- Victims: 1 victim,
- LDS positions: Missionary,
- LDS mission: no
- Criminal case: Convicted, No contest, Probation,
- He was a Mormon missionary in Corpus Christi, Texas; molested a three-year old in a bedroom while two other missionaries talked with the mother; pleaded no contest to charges filed in May 1989 of indecency with a child; sentenced to eight years probation, a $1,000 fine, and required to pay $400 in court costs.
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Doug Lovell
- Victims: 1 victim,
- LDS positions: Unknown,
- LDS mission: no
- Criminal case: Unknown,
- Civil case: No civil case,
- The accused was a Mormon church member in Utah; accused of sexual abuse of a woman he murdered; he claimed the LDS church meddled in his 2015 trial by discouraging a former prison bishop from testifying in his defense.
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Melvin MacNeil
- Victims: 1 victim,
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Born: 1943
- LDS positions: Other leader,
- LDS mission: unknown
- Criminal case: Unknown,
- He was a Mormon church member in Ontario, Canada; accused of sexual abuse.
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Major Lynn Madon
- Latest update: Currently serving time in Central Utah Correctional Facility
- Victims: 1 victim,
- LDS positions: Bishopric counselor, Nursery leader, Stake high council, Sunday school teacher, Ward clerk,
- LDS mission: unknown
- Criminal case: Convicted, Prison,
- The accused was an LDS church member in Mapleton, Utah; convicted of child sexual abuse; as of 2024, serving time in prison in Central Utah Correctional Facility.
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Isaac Vernon Mardis
- Latest update: Case is Pending
- Victims: 1 victim, 3 victims, Multiple victims,
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Born: 1976
- LDS mission: unknown
- The accused was a Mormon church member in Idaho Falls, Idaho; charged with Lewd Conduct with Child Under 16 in April 2024; was also accused in 2022 by the same victim.
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Herbert Calvin Mataele
- Latest update: October 2023: ordered to serve 3 years in jail in Utah, with credit for the almost year and a half he has already served, followed by six years of probation
- Victims: 1 victim,
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Born: 1967
- LDS positions: Unknown,
- LDS mission: unknown
- Criminal case: Convicted,
- The accused was an LDS church member in Bluffdale, Utah; convicted of sexually abusing a disabled girl he was caring for; sentenced in October 2023 to between three years and life in prison, but that prison sentence was suspended; the judge ordered him to serve three years in jail, with credit for the almost year and a half he had already served, followed by six years of probation.
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James R Matlock
- Victims: 1 victim,
- LDS positions: Scout leader,
- LDS mission: no
- Criminal case: Convicted,
- Civil case: No civil case,
- He was a Mormon church member; pleaded guilty to child sexual abuse.
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Bruce A McAskill
- Latest update: 1994: convicted of child sexual abuse, sentenced to prison
- Victims: 1 victim,
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Born: 1928
- LDS positions: Other leader, Ward clerk,
- LDS mission: no
- Criminal case: Convicted, Found guilty, Prison,
- Civil case: No civil case,
- He was a Mormon church ward clerk in Jackson, Michigan; before becoming ward clerk, was convicted of rape; after becoming ward clerk, in 1994, was found guilty by a judge of kissing and fondling an 8-year-old boy whom he was babysitting; McAskill had met the boy's mother at church; a police officer said McAskill told him 'he didn't see any problem' with an adult sleeping naked with a child.
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Glen Burnell McGhie
- Latest update: Lives in Lynnwood, Washington and had his name removed from sex offender database
- Victims: 1 victim, 3 victims, Multiple victims,
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Born: 1958
- LDS mission: Japan -
- Criminal case: Convicted,
- The accused was a Mormon church member in Santa Clara, California; found guilty of lewd or lascivious act on a child age 14/15 a felony; lost his physical therapy license.
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Mitchell McKee
- AKA Mitch
- Latest update: March 2024: arrested
- Victims: 1 victim,
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Born: 1966
- LDS positions: Missionary,
- LDS mission: unknown
- Criminal case: Ongoing,
- Civil case: No civil case,
- The accused was a Mormon church member and retired Utah State Highway Patrol officer in Heber City, Utah; when arrested in 2024, was a licensed marriage and family therapist with experience helping LDS clients address "pre and post mission sexual issues;" accused of sexual abuse of a minor.
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Chester Lewis Meek
- AKA Chet Meek
- Victims: 1 victim,
- LDS positions: Bishop, Other leader,
- LDS mission: unknown
- Criminal case: Convicted,
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Settlement paid by LDS church: Yes (undisclosed amount)
- He was a Mormon bishop in Grand Prairie, Alberta, Canada when he sexually abused a woman; convicted of sexual assault against a female church member; there were several victims in this case over a period of five years; at least one reported abuse taking place in the bishop's office inside an LDS chapel.
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Blake Cornell Mendenhall
- Latest update: 2023: lives in American Fork, Utah
- Victims: 1 victim,
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Born: 1989
- LDS positions: Unknown,
- LDS mission: unknown
- He was an LDS church member in American Fork, Utah; accused of sexual abuse.
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Ronald Albert Mills
- Victims: 1 victim,
- LDS mission: no
- Criminal case: Convicted, Prison,
- Civil case: No civil case,
- He was an LDS church member in Orange, New South Wales, Australia; accused of sexual abuse; convicted; sentenced in or around 1982 to 3 years in jail.
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Thomas Lee Monson
- AKA Tommy Monson
- Latest update: 1996: agreed to an undisclosed settlement with a victim who filed a sexual harassment lawsuit against him
- Victims: 1 victim,
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Born: 1951
- LDS positions: Bishop,
- LDS mission: unknown
- Criminal case: Convicted, Pleaded guilty,
- Civil case: Settlement,
- He was an attorney for the LDS church's law firm, Kirton McConkie; In 1989, Monson paid a $75 fine and was placed on probation after he pleaded guilty to charges of soliciting sex from a prostitute; sued in the 1990s for sexual harassment; reached a settlement with the victim; was a Mormon bishop in Utah in 2008.
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Luis Andres Morales Silva
- Latest update: Serving prison time in Utah Correctional Facility
- Victims: 1 victim,
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Born: 1987
- LDS mission: unknown
- Criminal case: Convicted,
- The accused was an LDS church member in Lehi, Utah; found guilty 4 counts of sexual abusing a child in the 2nd degree.
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Marcelo Moreno Pérez
- Victims: 1 victim,
- LDS positions: Youth leader,
- LDS mission: unknown
- Leaders allegedly hid sex crimes
- Criminal case: Convicted, Prison,
- Civil case: No civil case,
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Settlement paid by LDS church: $40,000
- The accused was a former Mormon church young men's leader in Argentina; arrested in 2021 for alleged sexual assault of a 14-year-old girl in 2017; sentenced in 2022 to 13.5 years in prison; the Mormon church allegedly paid the victim's parents 4.5 million pesos (approximately $40,000) to keep the abuse secret.
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Shane Michael Murray
- Victims: 1 victim,
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Born: 1982
- LDS mission: unknown
- Criminal case: Pleaded guilty,
- The accused was an LDS church member in Salt Lake City, Utah; pleaded and convicted of 2 counts of FORCIBLE SEX ABUSE - 2nd Degree Felony the victim was 14 year old female.
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