16 matching Mormon sex abuse cases

      • Nicholas Alahverdian was an LDS church member in Orem, Utah; accused of rape; recently extradited from Scotland; has a lengthy history of criminal behavior
      • Layne Bingham was an LDS church member in Boise, Idaho; convicted of child sexual abuse in 2008; as of 2023, was a registered sex offender living in Boise
      • Gerald Bowen was an LDS church member in Tennessee; convicted in 2008 of: SOLICITATION TO COMMIT SOLICITATION OF A MINOR, AGGRAVATED SEXUAL EXPLOITATION OF A MINOR, EXPLOITATION OF A MINOR BY ELECTRONIC MEANS
      • Roland Byrd was an LDS church member in Caldwell, Idaho; convicted of sexual abuse of a child under 16 years; as of 2024, lives in Toquerville, Utah as a registered sex offender
      • Raphael Caccioppoli was a Mormon Sunday school teacher, lawyer and Justice Ministry judicial officer in New Zealand; confessed sex crime behavior to a Mormon bishop in 1998; LDS leaders did not tell police or local parents of children he was left alone to supervise; turned himself in to police in 2007; sentenced to five years in jail for child sexual abuse and animal sex abuse (bestiality)
      • Church officials allegedly failed to report abuse
      • Church discipline: Excommunicated,
      • Brett Candelaria was a Mormon church member in Colorado; pleaded guilty to charges of child sexual abuse on multiple occasions; sentenced in 2008 to two consecutive terms of 10 years to life in prison; later sentenced to 36 more years to life
      • 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
      • Frank Lefrandt was an LDS church member in Honolulu, Hawaii; served a Mormon mission to Guatemala; accused of sexual abuse; admitted in 2007 to sexually molesting a 13-year-old newspaper carrier; pleaded guilty in November 2008; disappeared while out on bail awaiting sentencing
      • Bryant Litchfield was an LDS church member and physician in Alberta, Canada; accused of sexual abuse; acquitted; in 2008, was found guilty by the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Alberta of inappropriately touching women patients during breast and vaginal exams in 2001; stripped of his medical license
      • Timothy McCleve was a former Mormon bishop in Harrisville, Utah when he was charged with sexually abusing three children; some of the abuse took place while he was bishop; sentenced in 2008 to up to 30 years in prison for child sexual abuse; in 2024, charged in Utah with threatening a witness in a parole violation investigation
      • Church officials allegedly failed to report abuse
      • Robert Paisola was an LDS church member in Utah; accused of sexual abuse; convicted in 2008 and sentenced to 90 days in jail
      • Tim Ryan was allegedly an LDS church member in Idaho; accused of sexual abuse; pleaded guilty in 2008 to a felony charge of sexual abuse of a child under the age of 16; detectives said the victim's family reported the abuse in 1999, but that it was dropped when they wouldn't cooperate with investigators
      • Church officials allegedly failed to report abuse
      • Bradley Stowell was a Mormon church member and scout leader in Idaho; confessed to sexually abusing 24 boys; pleaded guilty to molesting two boys; sentenced in 1997 to 150 days in prison and 15 years of probation; local LDS church coverup alleged; one of Stowell's victims, Adam Steed, came forward, spurring lawsuits against the Mormon church and the BSA; as of 2024, lived in Herriman, Utah
      • Church officials allegedly failed to report abuse
      • Gerald Tapp was a Mormon bishop in Gravesend, England; in 2008, sentenced to three and a half years in jail for distributing and possessing indecent images of children