Recently updated Mormon sexual abuse cases

• Nicolas Pierre Faivre

  updated: April 3, 2024
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  • Born in 1979.
  • Also known as Nicholas Faivre.
  • Nicolas Faivre was a former LDS bishop in Australia; charged with sending sexually explicit messages to a child.
  • Worked in the LDS church as a Bishop, .
  • Was married in an LDS temple .
  • More details at FLOODLIT.org/a111

• Matthew John Hack

  updated: April 3, 2024
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  • Also known as Matthew Hack Jr.
  • Matthew Hack was a Mormon church member and stake high council member in Oklahoma; accused in 2019 of child sexual abuse; pleaded no contest to an amended charge of child neglect.
  • Worked in the LDS church as a Bishopric counselor, Stake high council, .
  • More details at FLOODLIT.org/a140

• John Doe

  updated: April 3, 2024
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  • John Doe was an LDS church member in Argentina; accused of sexual abuse in 2017; an LDS bishop learned of the abuse in a private confession by the accused, and the bishop told the victim's mother, who told police.
  • More details at FLOODLIT.org/a398

• Robert Tanner Cervo

  updated: April 3, 2024
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  • Born in 1976.
  • Also known as Tanner Cervo.
  • Robert Cervo was an LDS youth leader and schoolteacher in Abbotsford, British Columbia, Canada; accused of sexual abuse; agreed in 2015 to sign a peace bond (often referred to in other jurisdictions as a restraining order) and the four criminal charges against him were stayed..
  • Worked in the LDS church as a Youth leader, .
  • Was a Youth leader, at the time of alleged or confirmed criminal activity.
  • More details at FLOODLIT.org/a065

• Cletus James Hanifin

  updated: April 3, 2024
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  • Born in 1939.
  • Died in 2021.
  • Also known as Jim Hanifin.
  • Cletus Hanifin was an LDS church member in Boulder, Colorado; accused of sexually abusing a young teenage girl in his home, while his wife was away.
  • Was married in an LDS temple .
  • Latest update: Died October 2021.
  • More details at FLOODLIT.org/a375

• Larry Van Dyke

  updated: April 3, 2024
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  • Larry Dyke was a Mormon church member; accused of sexual abuse.
  • Worked in the LDS church as a Scout leader, .
  • More details at FLOODLIT.org/a103

• Thomas Anderson Quinton

  updated: April 3, 2024
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  • Also known as Tom.
  • Thomas Quinton was an LDS church member in Alberta, Canada; Tom drove to Great Falls, Montana to meet a 12 year old girl he met through a Craigslist ad; was arrested in a sting operation.
  • Was an LDS missionary in Unknown country .
  • Was married in an LDS temple .
  • More details at FLOODLIT.org/a717

• Jane Doe

  updated: April 3, 2024
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  • Jane Doe was an LDS church member in Australia; accused of sexual abuse.
  • Worked in the LDS church as a Sunday school, .
  • Was a Sunday school, at the time of alleged or confirmed criminal activity.
  • More details at FLOODLIT.org/a697

• Brandon Osorio Hernandez

  updated: April 3, 2024
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  • Born in 1999.
  • Brandon Hernandez was an LDS church member in Tempe, Arizona; accused of sexually abusing a victim inside a Mormon church; convicted of four fourth degree felony counts of abuse of a child or vulnerable adult.
  • Worked in the LDS church as a Other leader, .
  • Was a Other leader, at the time of alleged or confirmed criminal activity.
  • More details at FLOODLIT.org/a696

• Richard Cole

  updated: March 14, 2024
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  • Born in 1975.
  • Died in 1975.
  • Richard Cole was an LDS church member in Santa Rosa, California; accused of sexually and physically abusing his wife; in 1975 was murdered by his wife when she said needed the abuse to stop.
  • More details at FLOODLIT.org/a668