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Larry Van Dyke
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- was a Mormon church member; accused of sexual abuse.
- Criminal case: Unknown,
- Victims: Unknown number of victims,
- Crime years: 1980s,
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Dennis Joe Empey
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Leaders allegedly hid sex crimes
- was a Mormon church member and scout leader in Blackfoot, 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.
- Criminal case: Convicted, Probation,
- Victims: 10 or more victims, Multiple victims, Unknown number of victims,
- Crime scenes: LDS church building,
- Crime years: 1980s, 1990s,
- Convicted in: 1990s,
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William W Gillespie
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Leaders allegedly hid sex crimes
- was an LDS church member in Alabama; accused of sexual abuse; convicted; conviction was reversed on appeal.
- Criminal case: Convicted, Overturned/reversed, Unknown,
- Victims: Multiple victims, Unknown number of victims,
- Crime years: 1980s,
- Convicted in: 1980s,
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David Lee Hamblin
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- was an LDS church member in Utah; arrested in 2022 and charged with sexual abuse of a child; connected to an ongoing investigation into ritualistic sexual abuse in Utah; ex-husband of Roselle Stevenson, who was arrested in 2023 and charged with child sexual abuse.
- Criminal case: Ongoing,
- Victims: 10 or more victims, Multiple victims, Unknown number of victims,
- Crime years: 1980s, 1990s, 2000s,
- Convicted in: Never convicted,
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Kenneth L Hanigan
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- was an LDS church member; accused of sexual abuse.
- Criminal case: Unknown,
- Victims: Unknown number of victims,
- Crime years: 1980s,
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Kenneth Morgan Harper
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- was an LDS church member; accused of sexual abuse.
- Criminal case: Convicted,
- Victims: Multiple victims, Unknown number of victims,
- Crime years: 1970s, 1980s, 1990s,
- Convicted in: 1990s,
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Michael L Hicks
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- was an LDS church member; accused of sexual abuse; sentenced to prison.
- Criminal case: Convicted,
- Victims: 3 victims, Multiple victims, Unknown number of victims,
- Crime years: 1980s,
- Convicted in: 1990s,
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Grant Joel Hildreth
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- was an LDS church member in Montana; sentenced to prison in 1992 for felony child sexual abuse; in 2011, pleaded guilty to two class A misdemeanor counts of sexual battery; died in 2022.
- Criminal case: Convicted,
- Victims: Multiple victims, Unknown number of victims,
- Crime years: 1980s, 1990s,
- Convicted in: 1990s, 2010s, 2011,
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James Francis Hogan
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Leaders allegedly hid sex crimes
- was a Mormon church member and scout leader in Oregon; in 1989, was sentenced to five years in prison for child sexual abuse; released in 1994; in 2011, a victim filed a civil lawsuit against the Boy Scouts of America, seeking $5.2 million.
- Criminal case: Convicted, Pleaded guilty, Prison, Released,
- Civil case: Settlement,
- Victims: Multiple victims, Unknown number of victims,
- Crime scenes: LDS church building,
- Crime years: 1970s, 1980s,
- Convicted in: 1980s,
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Settlement paid by LDS church: Yes (undisclosed amount)
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Willis Dale King
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- was an LDS church member; accused of sexual abuse; pleaded guilty.
- Criminal case: Convicted,
- Victims: Unknown number of victims,
- Crime years: 1980s,
- Convicted in: 1980s,
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Jay Douglas Mitchell
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- was an Mormon church member and scout leader in Oregon; sentenced to a total of sixty years in prison with a minimum of thirty years, for child sexual abuse.
- Criminal case: Convicted, Prison,
- Victims: Multiple victims, Unknown number of victims,
- Crime years: 1980s,
- Convicted in: 1980s,
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Brian David Mitchell
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- was a Mormon church member and temple worker in Utah; abductor, with Wanda Barzee, of Elizabeth Smart.
- Criminal case: Convicted,
- Victims: 5 victims, Multiple victims, Unknown number of victims,
- Crime years: 1980s, 1990s, 2000s,
- Convicted in: 2000s, 2009,
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Gerald Elbert Mortimer
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- was an OB/GYN doctor in Idaho and former Mormon temple president and mission president in the Philippines; admitted in 2019 to secretly using his sperm to artificially inseminate multiple women; a civil suit against him was dismissed with prejudice in 2021, possibly because of a private settlement agreement.
- Criminal case: Admitted guilt, Never charged, Not convicted,
- Victims: Multiple victims, Unknown number of victims,
- Crime scenes: Perpetrator's workplace,
- Crime years: 1980s,
- Convicted in: Never convicted,
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Richard W Nelson
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- was an LDS church member; pleaded guilty to child sexual abuse.
- Criminal case: Convicted,
- Victims: Unknown number of victims,
- Crime years: 1980s,
- Convicted in: 1980s,
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Thomas Opfar
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- was a Mormon church member; pleaded guilty of child sexual abuse.
- Criminal case: Convicted,
- Victims: Unknown number of victims,
- Crime years: 1980s,
- Convicted in: 1980s,
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Dan S Overholt
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- was an LDS church member; accused of sexual abuse.
- Criminal case: Unknown,
- Victims: Unknown number of victims,
- Crime years: 1980s, 1990s,
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Brian Richard Peterson
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- was an LDS church member and scout leader in Orem, Utah; accused of sexual abuse; convicted and sentenced to prison.
- Criminal case: Convicted, Prison,
- Civil case: No civil case,
- Victims: Multiple victims, Unknown number of victims,
- Crime years: 1980s,
- Convicted in: 1980s,
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Phillip Kowalewski Rimmasch
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- was a Mormon church member and scout leader in Utah in the 1980s; had a 50-plus year career as a mortician; convicted of child sexual abuse; on appeal, the Utah Supreme Court ordered a new trial in 1989.
- Criminal case: Convicted, Overturned/reversed,
- Victims: Unknown number of victims,
- Crime years: 1980s,
- Convicted in: 1980s,
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Mark A Swanson
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Leaders allegedly hid sex crimes
- was a Mormon church member and scout leader in Idaho; accused of sexual abuse; a local Mormon bishop recommended him for a scout leader position, reportedly because "he feels he is completely rehabilitated".
- Criminal case: Unknown,
- Civil case: No civil case,
- Victims: Unknown number of victims,
- Crime scenes: Unknown crime scene,
- Crime years: 1980s,
- Convicted in: Never convicted,
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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 case: Ongoing,
- Civil case: Civil case dismissed with prejudice,
- Victims: 4 victims, Unknown number of victims,
- Crime scenes: LDS church building, Public building,
- Crime years: 1980s, 2000s,
- Convicted in: Never convicted,
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