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Scott G. Abraham
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- was a Mormon church member in Powell, Wyoming; set up a hidden camera in women's bathroom at work place; convicted in 2020; as of 2024, lives in Wyoming as a registered sex offender.
- Criminal: Convicted,
- Civil: No civil case,
- Victims: 4 victims, Multiple victims,
- Convicted: 2020, 2020s,
- Case report »
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Michael Adamson
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Alleged coverup- was a church caretaker and organist in York, England; abused at least four children as young as seven years old; convicted; sentenced to prison in England in 2008 for child sexual abuse.
- Criminal: Convicted,
- Civil: No civil case,
- Victims: 4 victims, Multiple victims,
- Crime scenes: LDS church building,
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Dale Lynn Andreason
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- was a Mormon church member in Magna, Utah; found guilty of three counts of AGGRAVATED SEXUAL ABUSE OF A CHILD a 1st Degree Felony and was sentenced 6 years to life.
- Criminal: Convicted, Pleaded guilty,
- Victims: 4 victims, Multiple victims,
- Crime: 1990s, in Utah,
- Convicted: 2020s, 2023,
- Case report »
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Christian Robert Bearnson
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- Alleged coverup
- was a Mormon church member in Los Angeles, California in the early 1990s; molested a 13-year-old girl; the LDS church settled, reportedly for millions of dollars (US).
- Criminal: Convicted, Probation,
- Civil: Civil judgment in favor of plaintiff,
- Victims: 4 victims, Multiple victims,
- Crime scenes: LDS youth activity,
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LDS church payment: $2,000,000
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Jimmy Earl Brooks
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- was a Mormon church member in Texas; charged with child sexual abuse in 1994.
- Criminal: Unknown result,
- Civil: No civil case,
- Victims: 4 victims, Multiple victims,
- Crime scenes: Recreational trip/outing,
- Alleged crime: 1990s, in Texas,
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Alfred Francis Cote
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- 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.
- Criminal: Convicted,
- Victims: 4 victims, Multiple victims,
- Crime scenes: Scout activity/event,
- Crime: 1980s, 2000s, 2010s, in Illinois, New Hampshire,
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Michael Blair Ehlert
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- was a Mormon church member and former BYU professor in Utah; found guilty of sexual abuse in Guam in 2017.
- Criminal: Convicted,
- Civil: No civil case,
- Victims: 4 victims, Multiple victims,
- Case report »
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Matthew LeRoy Faerber
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- was an LDS church member and high school choir director in Murray, Utah; pleaded guilty in 1990 or 1991 to two counts of attempted sexual abuse of a child; sentenced in February 1991 to six months in jail (two of those months under house arrest) followed by three years of supervised release.
- Criminal: Convicted, Jail, Probation, Released,
- Victims: 4 victims, Multiple victims,
- Crime: 1980s, 1990s, in Salt Lake County (Utah), Utah,
- Convicted: 1990s,
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Samuel Howard Gardner
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- was an LDS bishop in the Oklahoma City First Ward in the early 1960s; accused of sexually abusing a teenage boy in the bishop's office at a Mormon chapel in about 1961; died in 1968.
- Criminal: Never charged, Not convicted,
- Civil: No civil case,
- Victims: 4 victims, Multiple victims,
- Crime scenes: LDS bishop's office, LDS church building,
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Lawrence Wayne Gilbert
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- was a Mormon church member and high priest group leader in California; convicted of sexually abusing three girls; sentenced to 10 years in prison.
- Criminal: Convicted, Prison,
- Victims: 4 victims, Multiple victims,
- Convicted: 1990s,
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Kenneth Robert Good
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- was a Mormon church member in Georgia; accused of molesting 4 underage girls; pleaded guilty of child sexual abuse; sentenced in 1991 to 8 years in prison; released on parole in December 1993; as of 2023, lives in Taylorsville Utah.
- Criminal: Convicted, Prison,
- Victims: 4 victims, Multiple victims,
- Crime: 1980s, 1990s, in Georgia,
- Convicted: 1990s,
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Lincoln A Gygi
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- was a Mormon church member in Pleasant Grove, Utah; convicted in 2020 of sexually abusing a 7-year-old boy.
- Criminal: Convicted,
- Victims: 4 victims, Multiple victims,
- Crime scenes: Perpetrator's home,
- Crime: 2010s, in Utah, Utah County (Utah),
- Convicted: 2020, 2020s,
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James Glenn Haskell
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- was a former Mormon bishop and practicing attorney in Vacaville, California; charged with 14 felonies and three misdemeanors for allegedly sexually abusing four children; was an LDS stake high council member when charged; pleaded not guilty; in June 2024, found not guilty in a jury trial of 16 of 17 counts; jurors deadlocked on one count of felony injury upon a child.
- Criminal: Acquitted, Found not guilty, Hung jury, Ongoing,
- Civil: No civil case,
- Victims: 4 victims, Multiple victims,
- Crime scenes: Unknown crime scene,
- Alleged crime: 2020s, in California,
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Doyle Clarence Kelstrom
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- Alleged coverup
- was a Mormon church member in Oregon and Utah; accused of child sexual abuse; sentenced in 1992 to five years to life in prison in Utah.
- Criminal: Convicted, Prison, Probation,
- Victims: 4 victims, Multiple victims,
- Crime: 1970s, 1980s, 2000s,
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Lawrence Libey
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- was an LDS church member and scout leader in Idaho; accused of sexual abuse.
- Criminal: Unknown result,
- Civil: lawsuit against LDS church, Unknown result,
- Victims: 4 victims, Multiple victims,
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Robert Matthews
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- was a Mormon church member and singer in the Mormon Tabernacle Choir; arrested in 2006, after police received evidence that he swam naked with four young boys during a trip in July 2006; he took pictures of the nude swim and later processed the images on his computer; charged with four counts of sexual exploitation of a minor and lewdness involving a child; convicted.
- Criminal: Convicted, Plea agreement,
- Civil: No civil case,
- Victims: 4 victims, Multiple victims,
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Timothy O'Sean McCleve
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- was a former Mormon bishop in Harrisville, Utah when he was charged with sexually abusing three children; some of the abuse took place while he was bishop; sentenced in 2008 to up to 30 years in prison for child sexual abuse; in 2024, charged in Utah with threatening a witness in a parole violation investigation.
- Criminal: Convicted, Prison,
- Victims: 4 victims, Multiple victims,
- Crime scenes: Victim's home,
- Crime: 1970s, 1980s, 1990s, 2000s, in Utah,
- Convicted: 2000s, 2008,
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Jared Chabot Murray
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- was a Mormon church member and scout leader in Rexburg, Idaho; pleaded guilty in 1989 to a child sexual abuse charge.
- Criminal: Convicted, Pleaded guilty,
- Victims: 4 victims, Multiple victims,
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Steve Nelson
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- Alleged coverup
- was an LDS church member in Idaho; in 2009, pleaded guilty to a charge of lewd conduct; sentenced to 30 years in prison; Mormon leaders failed to report abuse to police in the 1980s.
- Criminal: Convicted, Prison,
- Victims: 4 victims, Multiple victims,
- Crime: 1980s, 2000s, in Idaho,
- Convicted: 2000s, 2009,
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Paul William Newman
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- was a former Mormon bishop in Utah; charged in 2020 with child sexual abuse; convicted of a sex crime.
- Criminal: Convicted,
- Victims: 4 victims, Multiple victims,
- Crime: 2010s, in Utah,
- Convicted: 2020s,
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Brent David Noorda
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- was a Mormon church member and chiropractor in St. George, Utah; arrested in 2019 and accused of sexual abuse; convicted and sentenced to prison.
- Criminal: Convicted, No contest, Prison,
- Civil: No civil case,
- Victims: 4 victims, Multiple victims,
- Case report »
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DeRon Harrison Olsen
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- was a former Mormon bishop and stake presidency counselor in Spokane, Washington; in 2024, pleaded guilty to one felony count of child molestation and one felony count of child rape; sentenced to prison.
- Criminal: Convicted, Pleaded guilty, Prison,
- Civil: No civil case,
- Victims: 4 victims, Multiple victims,
- Crime scenes: Perpetrator's home,
- Crime: 2000s, 2010s, 2020s, in Washington,
- Convicted: 2020s, 2024,
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Les Paul
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- was an LDS church member in Arizona; charged with child sexual abuse; sentenced in about 1989 to over 400 years in prison.
- Criminal: Convicted, Prison,
- Civil: No civil case,
- Victims: 4 victims, Multiple victims,
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Daniel Roy Robison
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- was a Mormon church member and bankruptcy attorney in St. George, Utah; charged in 2024 with 11 felonies related to sexual abuse of four children.
- Criminal: Ongoing,
- Victims: 4 victims, Multiple victims,
- Crime scenes: LDS church building,
- Case report »
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George Martin Schliesser
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- was a Mormon church member and primary teacher in Utah; was a scout leader and a primary leader who was charged with two counts of sodomy on a child and two counts of sex abuse on a child in 1990; in September 2021 he was arrested after a third attempt at voyeurism, the first two in 2020.
- Criminal: Convicted,
- Victims: 4 victims, Multiple victims,
- Crime: 1980s, in Utah,
- Convicted: 1990s,
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Douglas George Stoddard
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- was an LDS bishop in Hurst, Texas; convicted in 1992 of a felony child sexual abuse charge of indecency with a child by contact; sentenced to 8 years of probation; a lifetime registered sex offender in Texas; named publicly in August 2023 by a victim who said Stoddard molested him and three other boys in his Mormon ward while serving as bishop.
- Criminal: Convicted, Probation, Registered sex offender,
- Victims: 4 victims, Multiple victims,
- Crime: 1980s, in Texas,
- Convicted: 1990s,
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Spencer C Turner
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- was a Mormon church member in Murray, Utah; In June of 2007 arrested for meeting with a girl he thought was a minor for kissing and fondling her; also possibly sexually abused 3 other minor girls.
- Criminal: Unknown result,
- Victims: 4 victims, Multiple victims,
- Alleged crime: 2000s, in Utah,
- Case report »
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Christopher B Warnock
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- Alleged coverup
- was a Mormon church member in Waukesha County, Wisconsin; found guilty of two counts of 1st Degree Sexual Assault of Child and one 2nd Deg. Sex Assault-Intoxicated Victim .
- Criminal: Convicted,
- Victims: 4 victims, Multiple victims,
- Crime: 1990s, 2000s, 2010s,
- Convicted: 2020s, 2021,
- Case report »
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Ruth Zurcher Worthen
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- was a Mormon church member in Hyde Park, Cache County, Utah; accused of child sexual abuse by one adult in a 2019 civil lawsuit and in 2023 by four adults (one of whom was the 2019 plaintiff); arrested and charged in June 2024 with numerous felonies related to child sexual abuse.
- Criminal: Ongoing,
- Civil: Civil case dismissed with prejudice,
- Victims: 4 victims, Multiple victims,
- Crime scenes: LDS church building, Public building,
- Alleged crime: 1980s, 2000s, in Cache County (Utah), Utah,
- Case report »
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