Recently updated Mormon sexual abuse cases

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  • Russell Millsaps was an LDS church member and retired police sergeant in Arizona; sentenced in 2016 to 323 years in prison for child sexual exploitation
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  • David Cannata was a Mormon bishop in Tucson, Arizona in 2005 when he sexually abused a child who was 5 or 6 years old; was a stake high council member sometime in the 2010s; was confronted by the victim and turned himself into the police; convicted in 2019 and sentenced to seven and a half years in prison; was excommunicated from the Mormon church because of the abuse
  • Church discipline: Excommunicated,
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  • Bruce Jeppesen was a Mormon elders quorum president when he sexually abused a child; sentenced to two concurrent terms of 15 years in the Utah State Prison
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  • William Hanson was a Mormon youth leader in several US states; sentenced to prison for child sexual abuse; the Mormon church settled a civil lawsuit in which the victim accused it of failing to protect him
  • Alleged coverup
  • LDS church payment: Undisclosed amount
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  • Gene Guinn was an LDS church member in the Dallas Seventh Ward, Texas; in 2000, found guilty by a jury of indecency with a child and sentenced to 68 years in prison; the victim was 10 years old at the time of the crime; Mormon officials allegedly knew about the abuse but failed to report to police
  • Alleged coverup
  • Church discipline: Excommunicated,
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  • Francis Fuller was a Mormon bishop in Highland, Utah in 1993; also was a stake high council member in Utah; in 2018 or 2019, pleaded guilty to two second degree felony counts of child sexual abuse; sentenced in 2019 in Utah to two years in jail and four years probation; registered sex offender
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  • 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 (not a conviction, but an agreement to comply with certain conditions for a specified period) and the four criminal charges against him were stayed
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  • Robert Dindinger was an LDS church member, psychologist and pornography addiction book author in Orem, Utah; was an LDS missionary in Scotland 1995-97; worked at Brigham Young University; charged in 2025 with convincing child patients to undress so he could secretly record them; in 2018, his license was placed on probation after he "inappropriately touched" a 17-year-old during "masturbation satiation therapy"
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  • John UNKNOWN was a Mormon church member; accused of sexual abuse
  • Alleged coverup
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  • Daniel Landeros was a Mormon missionary; accused of sexual abuse
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  • Jason Calder was a Mormon church member; accused of sexual abuse
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  • Lance Pitt was a Mormon church member; accused of sexual abuse
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  • G N was a Mormon church member; accused of sexual abuse
  • Alleged coverup
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  • B P was a Mormon church member; accused of sexual abuse
  • Alleged coverup
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  • Thomas Hoopes was an LDS church member; accused of sexual abuse; died in 1993
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  • Judith Tholen was a Mormon church member; sentenced to 10 years in prison for sexually abusing children she babysat with her husband John Tholen, who also sexually abused them
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  • John Tholen was a Mormon church member; sentenced to 10 years in prison for sexually abusing children he babysat with his wife Judith Tholen, who also sexually abused them
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  • Doe was a Mormon church member; accused of sexual abuse
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  • Plaintiff Jane Roe RW 100 Napa 24CV001526 - John Doe was a Mormon church member; accused of sexual abuse
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  • John Doe was a Mormon church member; accused of sexual abuse
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  • Garry Stickels was a Mormon church member; accused of sexual abuse
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  • Kevin Thorpe was a Mormon church member; accused of sexual abuse
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  • Marco Quintero was a Mormon church member; accused of sexual abuse
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  • Robert Linscott was a Mormon church member; accused of sexual abuse
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  • Stanley Liaga was a Mormon church member; accused of sexual abuse
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  • W Loveless was a Mormon church member; accused of sexual abuse
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  • Michael Holt was a Mormon church member; accused of sexual abuse
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  • Richard Gunter was a Mormon church member; accused of sexual abuse
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  • Samuel Doxey was a Mormon church member; accused of sexual abuse
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  • John Archer was a Mormon church member; accused of sexual abuse
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  • Michael Jeffries was a Mormon church member; accused of sexual abuse
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  • Thomas Durham was a Mormon church member; accused of sexual abuse
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  • Jeena Nilson was a Mormon church member; accused of sexual abuse
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  • Steven Fuller was a Mormon church member; accused of sexual abuse
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  • Donald Shelton was a Mormon church member; accused of sexual abuse
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  • Aaron Esplin was a Mormon church member; accused of sexual abuse
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  • Daniel Fuller was a Mormon church member; accused of sexual abuse
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  • Michael Coy was a Mormon church member; accused of sexual abuse
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  • Brian Call was a Mormon church member and dentist; accused of sexual abuse
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  • Larry Johnson was a Mormon church member; accused of sexual abuse
  • Alleged coverup
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  • Roger Kemp was a Mormon church member; accused of sexual abuse
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  • Richard DeCrescenzo was a Mormon church member; accused of sexual abuse
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  • Kevin Prodromides was a Mormon church member; accused of sexual abuse
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  • Larry Peterson was a Mormon church member; accused of sexual abuse
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  • Rodney Fielding was an LDS church member; accused of sexual abuse
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  • Ronald Fielding was an LDS church member; accused of sexual abuse
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  • Mason Thompson was an LDS church member; accused of sexual abuse
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  • Mark Mickelson was an LDS church member; accused of sexual abuse
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  • Chris Schofield was an LDS church member; accused of sexual abuse
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  • Michael Hepworth was an LDS church member; accused of sexual abuse
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  • Patrick Tissier was an LDS church member; accused of sexual abuse
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  • Grant O was an LDS church member; accused of sexual abuse
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  • Neil Erickson was a Mormon church member; accused of sexual abuse
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  • Michael Mitchell was a Mormon church member; accused of sexual abuse
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  • Michael Watson was a Mormon church member; accused of sexual abuse
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  • Homer Legg was a Mormon church member; accused of sexual abuse
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  • Kyle Hendrickson was a Mormon church member; accused of sexual abuse
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  • John Doe was a Mormon church member; accused of sexual abuse
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  • Donald Anderson was a Mormon church member; accused of sexual abuse
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  • Scott Kinzie was a Mormon church member; accused of sexual abuse
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  • Brent Johnson was a Mormon church member; accused of sexual abuse
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  • Kurt Stimpson was a Mormon church member; accused of sexual abuse
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  • James Stark was a Mormon church member; accused of sexual abuse
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  • Spencer McDougal was a Mormon church member; accused of sexual abuse
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  • Andrew Stringer was a Mormon church member; accused of sexual abuse
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  • Larry Story was a Mormon church member; accused of sexual abuse
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  • Joseph Davis was a Mormon church member; accused of sexual abuse
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  • Bryce Kinzie was a Mormon church member; accused of sexual abuse
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  • Val Jensen was a Mormon church member; accused of sexual abuse
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  • Anthony Pabst was a Mormon church member; accused of sexual abuse
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  • Brandon Simmons was a Mormon church member; accused of sexual abuse
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  • Ralph Freeman was a Mormon church member; accused of sexual abuse
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  • Daniel Croney was a Mormon church member; accused of sexual abuse
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  • David Stephenson was a Mormon church member; accused of sexual abuse
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  • Cameron Martell was a Mormon church member; accused of sexual abuse
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  • Tracy Tolman was a Mormon church member; accused of sexual abuse
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  • Gregory Nyman was a Mormon church member; accused of sexual abuse
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  • Tracy Rogers was a Mormon church member; accused of sexual abuse
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  • Maurice Parkerson was a Mormon church member; accused of sexual abuse
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  • Marco Herrera was a Mormon church member; accused of sexual abuse
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  • Heath Kelson was a Mormon church member; accused of sexual abuse
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  • Robert Davis was a Mormon church member; accused of sexual abuse
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  • Brian Crowther was a Mormon church member; accused of sexual abuse
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  • David Marsh was a Mormon church member; accused of sexual abuse
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  • Richard Carter was a Mormon church member; accused of sexual abuse
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  • Brigham Fromm was a Mormon church member; accused of sexual abuse
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  • Steve Townes was a Mormon church member; accused of sexual abuse
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  • Brevard Baugh was a Mormon church member; accused of sexual abuse
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  • John Nielsen was a Mormon church member; accused of sexual abuse
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  • Bryan Gundersen was a Mormon church member; accused of sexual abuse
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  • Dane Broderick was an LDS church member; accused of sexual abuse
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  • Brett Dayley was an LDS church member; accused of sexual abuse
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  • Chad Christensen was an LDS church member; accused of sexual abuse
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  • Stephen Lowe was an LDS church member; accused of sexual abuse
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  • Erik Gormley was a Mormon church member; accused of sexual abuse
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  • Todd Mortenson was an LDS church member; accused of sexual abuse; convicted
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  • Carlton Snyder was an LDS church member; accused of sexual abuse
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  • Tom Durham was a Mormon church member; accused of sexual abuse
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  • Mark Lowder was a Mormon church member; accused of sexual abuse
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  • David Eldredge was an LDS church member; accused of sexual abuse; convicted

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