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Nicholas Alahverdian
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- was an LDS church member in Orem, Utah; accused of rape; recently extradited from Scotland; has a lengthy history of criminal behavior.
- Criminal case: Convicted,
- Civil case: No civil case,
- Victims: Multiple victims,
- Crime scenes: Unknown crime scene,
- Crime years: 2000s,
- Convicted in: 2000s, 2008,
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Layne Schuyler Bingham
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- 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.
- Criminal case: Convicted, Unknown,
- Victims: Unknown number of victims,
- Crime years: 2000s,
- Convicted in: 2000s, 2008,
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Gerald Wayne Bowen
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- 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 .
- Criminal case: Convicted,
- Victims: Multiple victims, Unknown number of victims,
- Crime years: 2000s, 2010s,
- Convicted in: 2000s, 2008,
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Roland Shea Byrd
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- 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.
- Criminal case: Convicted, Registered sex offender,
- Victims: 1 victim,
- Convicted in: 2000s, 2008,
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Raphael Giuseppe Caccioppoli
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Leaders allegedly hid sex crimes- was a Mormon church 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).
- Criminal case: Convicted,
- Civil case: No civil case,
- Victims: 2 victims, Multiple victims,
- Crime scenes: Victim's home,
- Crime years: 1990s, 2000s,
- Convicted in: 2000s, 2008,
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Brett Candelaria
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- 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.
- Criminal case: Convicted, Prison,
- Civil case: No civil case,
- Victims: Multiple victims,
- Crime scenes: Unknown crime scene,
- Crime years: 1980s, 1990s, 2000s,
- Convicted in: 2000s, 2008,
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Gregory Scott Dew
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- 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.
- Criminal case: Convicted, Prison,
- Victims: Multiple victims, Unknown number of victims,
- Crime years: 2000s,
- Convicted in: 2000s, 2008,
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Frank Cornelis Lefrandt
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- 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.
- Criminal case: Convicted, Fled or failed to appear, Plea agreement, Pleaded guilty,
- Victims: 1 victim,
- Crime years: 2000s,
- Convicted in: 2000s, 2008,
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Bryant Floyd Litchfield
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- 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.
- Criminal case: Convicted, Found guilty,
- Victims: Multiple victims, Unknown number of victims,
- Crime years: 2000s,
- Convicted in: 2000s, 2008,
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Timothy O'Sean McCleve
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- 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.
- Criminal case: Convicted, Prison,
- Victims: 4 victims, Multiple victims,
- Crime scenes: Victim's home,
- Crime years: 1970s, 1980s, 1990s, 2000s,
- Convicted in: 2000s, 2008,
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Robert Henry Paisola
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- was an LDS church member; accused of sexual abuse; convicted in 2008 and sentenced to 90 days in jail.
- Criminal case: Convicted, Jail, No contest, Plea agreement,
- Victims: Unknown number of victims,
- Crime years: 2000s,
- Convicted in: 2000s, 2008,
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Bradley Grant Stowell
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- Leaders allegedly hid sex crimes
- 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.
- Criminal case: Convicted, Prison, Probation, Registered sex offender,
- Civil case: Unknown result,
- Victims: 10 or more victims, Multiple victims,
- Crime scenes: Scout activity/event,
- Crime years: 1980s, 1990s, 2000s,
- Convicted in: 1990s, 2000s, 2005, 2008,
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Gerald Tapp
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- was a former LDS bishop in the UK; in 2008, sentenced to three and a half years in jail for distributing and possessing indecent images of children.
- Criminal case: Convicted, Jail,
- Victims: Multiple victims, Unknown number of victims,
- Crime years: 2000s,
- Convicted in: 2000s, 2008,
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