4,080 instances of sex crimes allegedly perpetrated by members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
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    • James Neumeyer was a Mormon church member in Utah; accused of sexual abuse; died in 2024
    • Jeffery Niemi was a Mormon church member in Duluth, Minnesota; convicted in 2016 and again in 2025 of felonies related to child sexual exploitation; sentenced in 2025 to 30 years in prison
    • Church discipline: No action,
    • Justin Zierke was a Mormon church member and middle school teacher in Idaho Falls, Idaho; Zierke accepted a plea deal and was found guilty of injury to a child; received 30 days in jail and 2 years probation; lost teaching license
    • Ryan Whitaker was an LDS church member and divorce lawyer in Vancouver, Washington; charged with sexually abusing a 9-year-old girl in his Sunday School class during church meetings; convicted in 2013 and sentenced to prison; registered sex offender
    • Alleged coverup
    • Jack Loholt was an LDS church member and Boy scout leader in Kent, Washington; accused of sexual abuse in the 1970s; court records show that two Mormon bishops knew about the abuse allegations but did not tell police; the Mormon church was court-ordered in 2006 to pay $87,500 to one victim after it settled with three others for undisclosed sums
    • Alleged coverup
    • LDS church payment: $87,500
    • Pierre Euvrard was a Mormon mission president from 1991 to 1994 in the Mascarene Islands mission / South Africa Durban mission; died in 2000; accused in a 2020 Arizona lawsuit of sexually abusing two underage teen boys for years while working as a mission president
    • Kayla Atkin was an LDS church member and therapist in Lehi, Utah; charged in 2022 with three felony counts of sexual abuse; pleaded guilty in April 2023 to one count of attempted object rape (victim was 14-15 years old at the time of the crime); sentenced in September 2023 to 180 days in jail
    • Timothy Bothell was a LDS church employee and stake high council member in Utah; pleaded guilty and was sentenced in 2013 to two years in jail for sexual abuse of two girls, ages 11 and 13
    • Daniel Waddington was an LDS church member and retired police officer in American Fork, Utah; arrested in August 2023 and charged with 11 felony counts related to child sexual exploitation
    • Alan Bassett was a Mormon church member and air traffic controller in Fruit Heights, Utah; accused in a 2019 civil lawsuit of child sexual abuse (dismissed without prejudice); charged in June 2024 with child sexual abuse; over 80 victims came forward; admitted to molesting many neighbor girls; tried to get his case dismissed due to an unsigned 1989 agreement with a deputy Davis County attorney
    • Alleged coverup
    • David Broadbent was a Mormon and obstetrician/gynecologist (OB/GYN) doctor in Provo, Utah; in 2022, dozens of women joined a class action lawsuit accusing him of sexual assault; in 2022, a Utah judge dismissed the case; by 2023, nearly 300 victims had come forward; in 2024, was charged with forcible sexual abuse, and the Utah Supreme Court ruled that the lawsuit could proceed; 2025: more charges, 2nd lawsuit
    • Raymond Casillas was a Mormon bishop and middle school teacher in San Antonio, Texas; arrested in 2014 and charged with felony aggravated sexual assault of a child; via a plea agreement, pleaded no contest to indecent contact with a child and agreed to a fine of $1,500; was sentenced in 2016 to 8 years in prison; as of March 2024, lives in San Antonio, Texas as a registered sex offender
    • Church discipline: Church position after confession/conviction,
    • Stanley Green was a former Mormon bishop in Athens, Texas (in or before 1998 to 1999 or later); accused of sexual abuse; convicted; died in 2009
    • Christopher Hettiger was a Mormon church member in Sacramento, California; in 2005, found guilty of child sexual abuse and was sentenced to 30 years in prison
    • Steven Murdock was a Mormon stake high council member and former LDS bishop in Holladay, Salt Lake County, Utah; allegedly sexually harassed multiple women in his ward while he was their bishop (he was bishop from 2013 to 2017); in 2019, was caught taking photos of a young woman in a dressing room in Tennessee; pleaded guilty in November 2019; sentenced in 2019 to one year probation, 48 hours community service
    • Alleged coverup
    • Jason Smith was an LDS church member in Indiana; in 2019, confessed to sexually abusing a child; pleaded guilty and was sentenced in 2021 to 728 days of probation for battery against a child under 14 years old
    • Church discipline: No action,
    • Laron Zaugg was a Mormon church member in Utah; went on an LDS mission to Vienna, Austria in 1986; in 2017, sentenced to 15 years in federal prison for receiving child sexual abuse material (CSAM), and sentenced in Utah to three years to life in prison for first-degree felony attempted sodomy on a child; as of 2025, in federal prison in Colorado (release date 2028)
    • Scott Zaugg was allegedly a Mormon church member in Utah; was raised in the Mormon church; convicted in 2000 of second-degree felony sex abuse of a child; was sentenced to one to 15 years in prison; as of 2025, was a registered sex offender living in Roy, Utah
    • Jeffrey Zaugg was allegedly a Mormon church member in Utah; was raised in the Mormon church; convicted in 1995 of first-degree felony sodomy on a child; was sentenced to 10 years to life in prison; as of 2025, was out on parole (Utah offender #73345)
    • Michael Bolingbroke was a Mormon bishop and stake seventy president in Granada Hills, Los Angeles, California; accused of child sexual abuse in a 2022 lawsuit; died in 2024
    • Alleged coverup
    • Krew Zaugg was a Mormon church member in Idaho Falls, Idaho; went on an LDS mission to Louisiana and Mississippi from August 2022 to 2024; charged in June 2025 with multiple felonies after police said he sexually assaulted a minor; charged with rape of a victim under the age of 16 and lewd conduct with a child under 16
    • Larry Judd was an LDS church member in Mesa, Arizona; accused of sexual abuse; admitted to molesting 12 girls over a period of about 20 years; some of the alleged abuse took place at church and at church-sponsored summer camps
    • Alleged coverup
    • Kevin White was a therapist in Nephi, Utah who was raised in the Mormon church; accused of sexual abuse in 2025; Floodlit is trying to determine whether White was an active LDS church member at the time of the alleged crime
    • Robert Metcalf was a Mormon in California, Arizona; convicted of child sexual abuse in 1974; sentenced in 1979 to six years in prison; excommunicated; after prison, was rebaptized, made a scout leader and allegedly molested a scout on a campout in about 1987, according to a 1990 civil lawsuit against the LDS church; sentenced in Arizona in 1989 to 37 years in prison; 2020 lawsuit vs. LDS church
    • Alleged coverup
    • Church discipline: Excommunicated,
    • Timur Dykes was a Mormon church member and scout leader in Portland, Oregon; accused of sexual abuse; convicted multiple times; in 1987, three plaintiffs sued the Mormon church and the Boy Scouts of America; in about 2009, the Mormon church paid $350,000 to a victim to settle its portion of a civil lawsuit
    • Alleged coverup
    • LDS church payment: $350,000
    • Buckland Darrell was a former LDS Primary teacher in Redmond, Washington; accused of molesting young boys in sacrament meeting and at their homes; charged with first-degree felony child molestation in 2022-23 (5 victims); admitted to sexually abusing around 6 to 8 boys; pleaded guilty; sentenced in 2024 to at least 8 years in prison; faced two additional counts in March 2025 after two more victims came forward
    • Alleged coverup
    • Trent Rogers was a Mormon church member in Arizona; accused of sexual abuse; pleaded guilty in 1986 and was sentenced to three years probation; a woman sued the Mormon church in 1986
    • Alleged coverup
    • William Gillespie was an LDS church member in Montgomery, Alabama; accused of reaching inside the swimsuits of two girls and fondling them in his backyard pool in 1987; convicted in 1988 of three charges of first-degree sexual abuse and sentenced to one year in prison, plus four years of probation; conviction was reversed on appeal, then upheld; was allegedly excommunicated from the Mormon church
    • Alleged coverup
    • Church discipline: Excommunicated,
    • Eric Avant was a Mormon cub scout leader in Norfolk, Virginia; convicted in 1979 of sodomizing an 11-year-old; Mormon leaders allegedly knew of his sexual attraction to young boys but did not check police records; convicted in 1988 of 14 counts of aggravated sexual battery and sentenced to 26 years in prison for molesting nine boys; had as many as 41 alleged victims; the church settled a lawsuit in 1992
    • Alleged coverup
    • LDS church payment: $2,000,000
    • Alan Reeves was a Mormon church member in Arizona; accused of sexual abuse
    • Edwin Dyer was a Mormon church member and scoutmaster in central Oregon; accused of sexual abuse; allegedly molested as many as 15 boys over a 28-year period; shot and killed in 1986 by one of his victims; the Mormon church settled out of court for $200,000 with one victim
    • Alleged coverup
    • LDS church payment: $200,000
    • Samuel Mitchell was raised in the Mormon church; in 2025, was charged with multiple felony counts related to child sexual exploitation
    • Geoffrey Ashdown was a Mormon church member in Australia; accused of sexual abuse
    • Gregory Dew was a former Mormon bishop, chiropractor and gymnastics teacher in Ohio; sexually abused multiple children; convicted and sentenced to prison in 2008; as of November 2022, serving prison time in Ohio for sexually abusing teenage girls
    • Kent Staheli was an LDS church member in California and Utah; served as first counselor in a Mormon bishopric; convicted in federal court in 2010 of charges related to child sex trafficking
    • Jacob McConkie was raised as a Mormon church member in Utah; charged in 2025 with nine sexual exploitation of a minor charges for possessing CSAM
    • David Hamblin was a Mormon church member and former elders quorum president in Utah; arrested in 2022 and charged with child sexual abuse in three separate cases; investigated along with ex-wife Roselle Stevenson (arrested in 2023) for alleged ritualistic sexual abuse; in 2025, a court dismissed one case with prejudice after "discovery issues;" one case remained as of March 2025
    • Alleged coverup
    • Kenneth Richens was an LDS church member and chief information officer (CIO) of Central Valley Medical Center in Nephi, Utah; accused in 2023 of child sexual exploitation; pleaded guilty in February 2024 to two felony counts of sexual exploitation of a minor; in April 2024, sentenced to two consecutive terms of one to 15 years in prison
    • Collin Hawkins was a Mormon church member and adjunct Russian professor at Brigham Young University-Idaho; was a Mormon missionary in St. Petersburg, Russia from 2015 to 2017; arrested in 2025 on suspicion of 20 felony counts of sexual exploitation of a minor; the charges were related to CSAM (child sexual abuse material)
    • Matthew Nash was a former Mormon missionary from Utah who served a mission in North Carolina in 1999; accused in 2001 of sexually molesting 11 girls while on his mission; pleaded guilty to charges of child sexual abuse
    • Church discipline: Excommunicated,
    • John Fanning was a former Mormon bishop and scout leader in Utah; accused of sexual abuse in 1987 of a teenage boy during an overnight scouting activity; two victims later sued the Mormon church; died in 2012
    • David Brown was an LDS church member and boy scout leader in Missouri; charged with 32 counts of statutory sodomy; pleaded guilty in 2003 to five counts related to statutory sodomy; sentenced to prison for 15 years; a victim sued the Mormon church in 2003
    • David O'Connor was an LDS church member and high school wrestling coach in Tacoma, Washington; convicted of sexual abuse in 1977; once reportedly confessed his sexual abuse in an LDS sacrament meeting; in 2021, a victim sued the Mormon church
    • Alleged coverup
    • Larren Arnold was a Mormon church member and scout leader in Idaho; in 1984, arrested for lewd conduct with a minor under 16; convicted, received a five-year suspended sentence and three years probation; Mormon leaders allegedly covered up Arnold's abuse; the Mormon church made a $50,000 settlement payment to a victim in 2001, and a payment to another victim in 2012; died in 2017
    • Alleged coverup
    • LDS church payment: $50,000
    • Fred Willie was a Mormon church member and Boy Scout leader in Idaho; convicted of charges related to child sexual abuse
    • Alleged coverup
    • James Hogan 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; the Mormon church settled with two victims for $800,000 and $75,000
    • Alleged coverup
    • LDS church payment: $875,000
    • Church discipline: Excommunicated,
    • David Farley was a former doctor and LDS church member in West Linn, Oregon; accused of sexually abusing over 200 patients; the alleged abuse occurred over a span of many years, during which Farley was an LDS stake high council member for some time; never criminally charged; in February 2024, the city of West Linn, Oregon released a report about the way its police department investigated Farley
    • Roselle Stevenson was an LDS church member in Utah; accused in August 2023 of child sexual abuse; ex-wife of ritualistic abuse suspect David Hamblin; charge dismissed with prejudice in May 2025
    • Thomas Stanger was an LDS church member in Helena, Montana; arrested four times for indecent exposure; accused of watching pornographic material while masturbating looking at women nearby
    • James Larsen was a Mormon church member in Magna, Utah; accused of putting cameras in LDS church bathrooms as well as a private rental; pleaded guilty; sentenced in 2018 to prison
    • James Stokes was a Mormon church member in Farmington, Utah; Was a drama teacher at a high school in Utah found guilty of forcible sexual abuse of a 14 year old drama student
    • Harry Jones IV was a Mormon church member in Buffalo Grove, Illinois; convicted of possessing CSAM; is a registered sex offender
    • Glen McGhie 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
    • Candon Dahle was a Mormon church member in Blackfoot, Idaho and Provo, Utah; in February 2025, was arrested in Utah and extradited to Idaho; at the time of his arrest, he was a starting pitcher for the Brigham Young University (BYU) baseball team; charged in Fremont County, Idaho with felony lewd conduct with a child under 16 years old; also charged in Bingham County for a juvenile case re: child sex abuse
    • Jake Retzlaff was a starting quarterback for the Brigham Young University (BYU) football team; not a Mormon church member; accused of sexual abuse in a civil lawsuit filed in 2025
    • Stephen Boyd was a Mormon church member in Colorado and Eagle Mountain, Utah; graduated from Brigham Young University (BYU) in 1991; accused in 2023 asking a person he thought was a 13 year old girl in an online chat to meet up for sex; April 2025 plead guilty; May 2025 plea was held in abeyance; Boyd was ordered to register as sex offender for 36 months and serve 90 days in jail with credit for 7 days
    • Paul Bryant was an HOA president and former Mormon primary teacher in Lehi, Utah; was a branch president during an LDS mission to Argentina in the 1980s; in 2016, pleaded guilty to three first-degree felony counts of attempted aggravated sexual abuse of a child and was sentenced to prison; in 2023, pleaded not guilty to failure to register as sex offender; died by suicide in December 2024
    • Ruth Worthen 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; died in 2025
    • Brad Gale was an LDS church member in Provo, Utah; sentenced to 15 years in federal prison for photographing a teenage boy engaging in sexual acts
    • Daniel Justice was a Mormon church member in Vernal, Utah; convicted of raping a child and is currently serving in Utah State Correctional Facility; sentenced five years to life.
    • Erik Hughes was a Mormon bishop in Mapleton, Utah and a Mormon church senior product manager when he sexually abused two underage children in his LDS ward dozens of times; was sentenced to prison in 2017; released in 2023; as of 2024, registered sex offender living in Utah
    • Alleged coverup
    • David McConkie was a Mormon bishop (approximately 2013-16), stake president (2016-21) and deputy district attorney in Colorado; paternal grandson of Mormon apostle Bruce R. McConkie; arrested in 2023 and charged with felony sexual assault on a child by someone in a position of trust; allegedly confessed child sexual assault to a Mormon church leader in 2008; in April 2025, proposed a plea deal to avoid prison
    • Alleged coverup
    • Benjamin Manning was a Mormon church member in Massachusetts and Utah; in 2014, molested a child while living with her family in Salt Lake City, Utah; charged with child sexual abuse in 2019; was a Sunday school teacher at some point between 2014 and 2024; found guilty by a jury in February 2024; sentenced in April 2024 to 120 years in prison
    • Wayne Sells was a Mormon church member in South Carolina; accused of sexual abuse
    • Michael Simms was a Latter-day Saints (LDS) church member, organist and music teacher in Oregon; accused in a civil lawsuit of sexually abusing a boy about 100 times between 1974 and 1976
    • Church discipline: Excommunicated,
    • Benjamin Covey was a Mormon church member in the 1840s and 1850s; in 1848, was excommunicated for having sexual intercourse with two girls "less than Twelve years of age" who were his foster daughters; was rebaptized and soon thereafter was made bishop of the Salt Lake City Twelfth Ward from 22 February 1849 until 1856
    • Church discipline: Church position after confession/conviction, Excommunicated, Rebaptized,
    • Boyd Lords was a Mormon church member in Winnemucca, Nevada; accused of child sexual abuse; pleaded guilty in 2022 to one felony count of lewdness with a child under the age of 14; was sentenced to prison
    • Frank Collins was an LDS church member and traveling professional clown (as "Windy the Clown") in Whittier, California; accused of sexual abuse in 1986; charges dropped
    • Chet Egley was a Mormon church member in Weston, Idaho; tried to meet a 13 year old girl for sex in Utah; pleaded guilty and convicted to one count sexual abuse of a child and two counts of enticing a minor by internet or text
    • James Denos was a former LDS bishop and junior high school teacher in Utah; previously lived and served as a Mormon bishop in California; sentenced in 2002 to a minimum of 20 years in a Utah state prison for sexually abusing four minor girls living in Utah; allegedly began molesting kids as early as 1950
    • Alleged coverup
    • Kelly Mangrum was an LDS church member and dentist in West Valley City, Utah; accused of sexual misconduct, prescribing medications for a drug addict for sex
    • David Gomez was a former LDS bishop and department of corrections administrator in Utah; arrested in 2004 and charged with 125 counts of sexual abuse; charges were dropped in 2005 due to issues related to the statutes of limitations
    • Alleged coverup
    • David Williams was an LDS church member in West Valley, Utah; in 2019, found guilty of sexually abusing seven little girls for 14 years; the abuse was reported to parents and bishop and they allegedly did not report to police
    • Alleged coverup
    • Jay Elggren was a Mormon church member in Salt Lake County, Utah; accused of sexual abuse; convicted; sentenced to jail and probation
    • Shane Murray 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
    • Sean Sund was an LDS primary teacher in Utah; arrested in 2018 and accused of sexually abusing an 8-year-old girl from his LDS ward during sleepovers at his home on multiple occasions; pleaded guilty in 2022 to second-degree felony sex abuse of a child and was sentenced to 361 days in jail; registered sex offender for life
    • Bryce Ray was a Mormon church member and former bank officer in West Haven, Utah; arrested in July 2024 and charged with enticing a minor and sexual solicitation of a child
    • Carl Johnson was a former Mormon bishop and former mayor of West Bountiful, Utah; arrested in 2022 and charged with sexually abusing several children between 1983 and 1997; pleaded guilty in 2023 to four felony counts of child sexual abuse; sentenced in 2023 to three consecutive terms of nine years to life each for first-degree felonies, plus one term of one to 15 years on a second-degree felony
    • William Van Dyke was an LDS church member in Utah; accused of sexual harassment of female students at Weber State University that needed financial aid
    • Thomas Forrest was an LDS church member in Mississippi; accused of sexual abuse; convicted
    • David Blackner was an LDS church member in or near Washington Terrace, Weber County, Utah; registered sex offender who used an alias while in leadership positions
    • Mark Stevens was a Mormon bishop in Utah in 2006; charged in 2025 with sexual assault of a 16-year-old girl that allegedly took place in his office at church
    • Alleged coverup
    • Thomas Weaver was a Mormon church member in Utah; arrested in 2023 and charged with felony child sexual abuse
    • Michael Bronson was a former Mormon bishop in Utah; sentenced to prison in 2017 for first-degree felony attempted aggravated child sexual abuse
    • Robert Nelson was an LDS bishop in Victoria, British Columbia, Canada; accused of sexual abuse of a "mentally handicapped" woman; pleaded guilty in 1989; placed on two years probation, ordered to do 150 hours of community service, and ordered to take a conducted tour of a local jail
    • Church discipline: Excommunicated,
    • Alan Dunn was a Mormon church member and scout leader in Venice, California (Los Angeles); accused in 1978 of child sexual abuse; confessed to the police
    • Alleged coverup
    • David Webb was an LDS church member and oral surgeon in Vacaville, California; accused of sexual abuse of multiple patients in 2021 and again in 2022; gave up his license to practice in 2023; got a license to practice dentistry in Idaho; as of March 2024, a criminal case and several civil cases in California are ongoing
    • James Haskell 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
    • Leslie Paul was an LDS church member in Arizona; charged with child sexual abuse; found guilty on 32 counts; sentenced in about 1989 to over 400 years in prison
    • Jeremy Rose was a Mormon church member in Tremonton, Utah; accused and charged with 16 charges in Box Elder, County; case was transferred to Ogden, Utah courts
    • Jayson Martineau was an LDS church member in Idaho and Tremonton, Utah; accused of sexual abuse; pleaded guilty in December 2023 in Utah and was sent on a one-year rider program
    • Melvin MacNeil was a Mormon church member in Ontario, Canada; accused of sexual abuse
    • Michael Hare was an LDS church member in Tooele, Utah; pleaded guilty of sexual abuse
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