Mormon Church Officials

9 Latter-day Saint church officials

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- Dean Andrus was an LDS bishop in Milo, Idaho (near Idaho Falls); investigated in 1996 by Bonneville County officials for allegedly discouraging a girl from testifying that Rexburg physician LaVar Withers sexually abused her
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- Philip Bussey was a Mormon area authority seventy and mission president; accused in a 2025 lawsuit of concealing child sexual abuse perpetrated by another person in order to be able to become a mission president; accused of inviting a known child sexual abuser to travel to his mission home in Madrid, Spain, where the abuser allegedly molested a child; lawsuit dismissed Oct. 28, 2025 without prejudice
- Positions: Bishop, Mission president, Stake patriarch,
- Civil case(s): Lawsuit v. LDS church, Ongoing,
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- Michael Evans was an LDS church stake presidency counselor in Sycamore, Illinois in 2000; accused in a 2024 civil lawsuit of covering up sexual assault by a Mormon bishop in his stake and of attempting to gaslight the victim; later became a stake president (Rockford, Illinois Stake 2009-16) and a mission president (Paraguay Asuncion North 2016-19)
- Positions: Mission president, Stake presidency counselor, Stake president,
- Criminal case(s): Never charged,
- Civil case(s): Lawsuit v. LDS church, Ongoing,
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- Gordon Hinckley was the 15th president of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints from 1995 until his death in 2008; accused of failing to help a sexual abuse victim who was his niece (his sister's daughter)
- Positions: Apostle, Missionary,
- Criminal case(s): Never charged,
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- Rhett Hintze was a Mormon stake president in Pennsylvania; accused in 2024 of failing to report an allegation of past child sexual abuse to police; charges dropped in June 2024
- Positions: Bishop, Stake president,
- Criminal case(s): Charges dropped,
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- Blair Meldrum was a Mormon stake president in West Virginia; accused in a 1996 lawsuit of covering up sexual abuse by LDS church member James Adams; the lawsuit named the LDS church; it was settled out of court in 2000
- Positions: Stake president,
- Civil case(s): Lawsuit v. LDS church, Settlement,
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- Russell Nelson was president of the Mormon church (2018-2025)
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- Dallin Oaks was an apostle in the LDS church
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- Robert Wilson was a Mormon stake president from 2011 to 2021 in Menifee, California; accused in a 2024 civil lawsuit of covering up sexual abuse by a church member in his stake; at the time a victim allegedly reported abuse to Wilson, her perpetrator (Todd Edwards) was a bishop; Edwards was sentenced to prision in 2013
- Positions: Stake president,
- Criminal case(s): Prison,
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