Number of victims: 3 victims

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- Bryan Barner 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
- Criminal case(s): Convicted, Prison,
- Civil lawsuit(s): No civil case,
- Church positions: Scout leader,
- Crime scenes: Unknown crime scene,
- Victims: 3 victims, Multiple victims,
- Born: 1957
- Mission: no
- Places lived: New York,
- Places when accused: New York,
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- Douglas Bowen 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
- Church officials allegedly failed to report abuse
- Criminal case(s): Convicted,
- Church positions: Scout leader,
- Victims: 3 victims, Multiple victims,
- Born: 1950
- Mission: no
- Places lived: California, Idaho, Utah, Washington,
- Latest update: Lives in St. George, Utah
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- Ronald Boyce was a Mormon seminary teacher and home teacher in Schenectady, New York in the 1990s; accused of child sexual abuse in a 2024 civil lawsuit against the LDS church
- Church officials allegedly failed to report abuse
- Church discipline: Excommunicated,
- Criminal case(s): Never charged, Not convicted, Unknown result,
- Civil lawsuit(s): Lawsuit v. LDS church, Ongoing,
- Church positions: Seminary teacher, Youth leader,
- Crime scenes: LDS activity, Perpetrator's home, Recreational trip/outing, Victim's home,
- Victims: 3 victims, Multiple victims,
- Born: 1961
- Mission: unknown
- Places lived: New York, Utah,
- Documents available: yes (contact us to request)
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- Robert Bunker was an LDS church member in McCammon, Idaho; accused of sexual abuse; convicted in 2006; sentenced to 33 days in jail; as of 2023, is a registered sex offender living in Idaho
- Church officials allegedly failed to report abuse
- Criminal case(s): Convicted, Jail, Pleaded guilty, Registered sex offender,
- Victims: 3 victims, Multiple victims,
- Born: 1990
- Mission: unknown
- Places lived: Idaho,
- Places when accused: Idaho,
- Latest update: 2024: is a registered sex offender; lives in Pocatello, Idaho
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- Michael Clay 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
- Criminal case(s): Community service, Convicted, No contest, Plea agreement, Probation,
- Civil lawsuit(s): No civil case,
- Church positions: BYU, Church employee, Scout leader, Youth leader,
- Convicted: 2023,
- Victims: 3 victims, Multiple victims,
- Born: 1974
- Mission: no
- Places lived: Utah, Utah County (Utah),
- Latest update: 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
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- Kenneth Copple was a Mormon church member in Arizona; found guilty of child sexual abuse and sentenced in 2019 to prison
- Church officials allegedly failed to report abuse
- Criminal case(s): Convicted, Found guilty, Jury trial, Prison,
- Church positions: Unknown position,
- Convicted: 2019,
- Victims: 3 victims, Multiple victims,
- Mission: unknown
- Places lived: Arizona, Maricopa County (Arizona),
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- Clark Crookston was a former Mormon bishop, dentist and college professor in Orem, Utah; accused of nearly 60 years of sex abuse of multiple children; pleaded guilty to attempted aggravated child sexual abuse; sentenced in 2022 to up to 35 years in prison
- Church officials allegedly failed to report abuse
- Criminal case(s): Convicted, Plea agreement, Pleaded guilty, Prison,
- Church positions: Bishop, High priest, Missionary, Stake high council,
- Convicted: 2022,
- Victims: 3 victims, Multiple victims,
- Born: 1949
- Mission: 1968-1970 Germany West German Mission
- Places lived: Utah, Utah County (Utah),
- Places when accused: Utah,
- Documents available: yes (contact us to request)
- Latest update: March 2024: in prison at the Central Utah Correctional Facility (offender number 254115) in Gunnison, Sanpete County, Utah
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- Richard Dilley 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
- Criminal case(s): Admitted guilt, Convicted, Plea agreement, Pleaded guilty, Prison,
- Civil lawsuit(s): No civil case,
- Church positions: Scout leader, Sunday school,
- Crime scenes: Perpetrator's home, Scout activity,
- Victims: 3 victims, Multiple victims,
- Born: 1959
- Mission: no
- Places lived: Greece, Washington,
- Places when accused: Washington,
- Latest update: 2024: lives in Airway Heights, Washington
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- Joseph Durborow was a Mormon church member in Orem, Utah; convicted of sexual abuse in Federal and State courts in 2003
- Criminal case(s): Convicted,
- Church positions: Scout leader,
- Convicted: 2003,
- Victims: 3 victims, Multiple victims,
- Born: 1961
- Mission: unknown
- Places lived: Utah, Utah County (Utah),
- Places when accused: Utah, Utah County (Utah),
- Latest update: Is a registered sex offender, lives in Orem, Utah; severed 10 years for Federal/State convictions
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- Todd Edwards was a Mormon bishop in Menifee, Riverside County, California; in 2013, sentenced to three years in prison for sexual abuse of one teenage girl in 2006 and another in 2012; was bishop at the time of the 2012 abuse; in 2024, two victims sued the LDS church in separate lawsuits; one said a stake president and LDS law firm Kirton McConkie hindered police
- Church officials allegedly failed to report abuse
- Criminal case(s): Convicted, Plea agreement, Pleaded guilty, Prison, Registered sex offender,
- Civil lawsuit(s): Lawsuit v. LDS church, Ongoing,
- Church positions: Bishop, Youth leader,
- Convicted: 2013,
- Crime scenes: Perpetrator's home, Vehicle,
- Victims: 3 victims, Multiple victims,
- Born: 1964
- Mission: unknown
- Places lived: California, Nevada,
- Places when accused: California,
- Documents available: yes (contact us to request)
- Latest update: 2024: two victims filed separate civil lawsuits against the Mormon church, saying its leaders failed to protect them from Edwards
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- Samuel Faber was an LDS church member in Sandy, Utah; charged in 2022 of sexually assaulting a woman he met on an LDS dating app called Mutual; in 2024, admitted to sexually assaulting three women and pleaded guilty to amended first-degree felony charges of rape and forcible sodomy, and third-degree felony aggravated sexual assault and two counts of third-degree felony forcible sexual abuse
- Criminal case(s): Admitted guilt, Convicted, Pleaded guilty, Unknown result,
- Church positions: Unknown position,
- Convicted: 2024,
- Victims: 3 victims, Multiple victims,
- Mission: unknown
- Places lived: Salt Lake County (Utah), Utah,
- Latest update: 2024: pleaded guilty
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- Stephen Field was a Mormon church member in California; convicted of sexual abuse; sentenced to prison
- Church officials allegedly failed to report abuse
- Criminal case(s): Convicted, Prison,
- Civil lawsuit(s): No civil case,
- Church positions: Scout leader,
- Victims: 3 victims, Multiple victims,
- Mission: no
- Places lived: California,
- Places when accused: California,
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- Leeroy Fry was a former Mormon bishop in Farmington, Utah; in 1982-83, was an LDS bishop in the Hunter 1st Ward of the Hunter Central Stake in Magna, Utah; in 2012, pleaded guilty to two charges of attempted aggravated sexual abuse of a child, a 1st degree felony
- Criminal case(s): Convicted, Pleaded guilty, Unknown result,
- Church positions: Bishop,
- Convicted: 2012,
- Victims: 3 victims, Multiple victims,
- Born: 1936
- Mission: unknown
- Places lived: Salt Lake County (Utah), Utah,
- Places when accused: Utah,
- Latest update: Lives in Farmington, Utah
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- Jay Grant was a Mormon bishop of the Adams Ward in Los Angeles, California; charged in 1981, at age 79, with five counts of forcible sexual abuse; sexually assaulted three young girls; convicted of all five counts; died in 1988 in Orem, Utah; ran "Grandpa Grant's Memory Club," a neighborhood study group for up to 175 LDS children; Grant sometimes had "students" spend the night at his apartment
- Church discipline: Excommunicated,
- Criminal case(s): Convicted,
- Civil lawsuit(s): No civil case,
- Church positions: Bishop, Youth leader,
- Crime scenes: Perpetrator's home,
- Victims: 3 victims, Multiple victims, Unknown number of victims,
- Born: 1902
  Died: 1988
- Mission: United States Southern States / Northern States [Ohio]
- Places lived: California, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake County (Utah), Utah,
- Places when accused: Salt Lake County (Utah), Utah,
- Latest update: 1988: died in Orem, Utah
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- Efrey Guzman was an LDS church member and branch president in Sandy, Utah; charged with aggravated sexual assault, aggravated burglary, both first-degree felonies, and sexual abuse of a child and forcible sexual abuse, both second-degree felonies; acquitted
- Criminal case(s): Found not guilty,
- Church positions: Branch president,
- Victims: 3 victims, Multiple victims,
- Born: 1966
- Mission: unknown
- Places lived: Salt Lake County (Utah), Utah,
- Places when accused: Utah,
- Latest update: Was acquitted in 2014
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- Ronald Hall was an LDS church member and former Mormon Tabernacle Choir member in Utah and Washington; accused of sexually molesting three underage girls in 1997 or 1998; acquitted in 2000; accused of sexual abuse of a fourth victim, an underage girl, in approximately 2003; convicted in 2005 of third-degree felony attempted child sexual abuse; died in 2023
- Criminal case(s): Convicted, Plea agreement, Pleaded guilty, Registered sex offender, Unknown result,
- Civil lawsuit(s): No civil case,
- Church positions: Seminary teacher, Tabernacle Choir,
- Convicted: 2005,
- Crime scenes: Unknown crime scene,
- Victims: 3 victims, Multiple victims,
- Born: 1931
  Died: 2023
- Mission: no
- Places lived: Utah, Washington,
- Latest update: 2023: died
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- Lynn Harrison was an LDS church member in Utah; accused of sexual abuse; pleaded no contest
- Criminal case(s): Convicted, No contest,
- Church positions: Scout leader,
- Victims: 3 victims, Multiple victims,
- Born: 1935
  Died: 2016
- Mission: no
- Places lived: Utah, Weber County (Utah),
- Places when accused: Utah, Weber County (Utah),
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- Jeffrey Head was an LDS bishop in Draper, Utah; committed sex crimes while serving as a Mormon bishop; in 2019, a jury found him guilty of attempted forcible sexual abuse, two counts of lewdness and sexual battery; sentenced to four months in jail and four years of probation
- Church officials allegedly failed to report abuse
- Criminal case(s): Convicted, Found guilty, Jail, Jury trial, Probation, Registered sex offender, Released,
- Church positions: Bishop, Bishopric counselor, Missionary, Youth leader,
- Convicted: 2019,
- Victims: 3 victims, Multiple victims,
- Born: 1964
- Mission: 1983-1985 United States Missouri St. Louis
- Places lived: Missouri, Utah,
- Places when accused: Missouri,
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- Michael Hicks was an LDS church member in Washington; accused of sexual abuse; sentenced to prison
- Criminal case(s): Convicted, Prison,
- Church positions: Scout leader,
- Victims: 3 victims, Multiple victims,
- Mission: unknown
- Places lived: Washington,
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- William Jansen was an LDS church member and police officer in Twin Falls, Idaho; accused of sexual abuse; pleaded guilty
- Church officials allegedly failed to report abuse
- Criminal case(s): Convicted, Pleaded guilty, Unknown result,
- Civil lawsuit(s): No civil case,
- Church positions: Missionary,
- Crime: Unknown crime year, in Idaho,
- Victims: 3 victims, Multiple victims,
- Born: 1983
- Mission: no
- Places lived: Idaho,
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