Convicted Year: 2005

17 LDS sex abuse cases found

Year convicted: 2005

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- Joseph Atwater (1954 – ) was an LDS church member in Australia; pleaded guilty in 2005 to trafficking and kidnapping
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- Crime: 2000s,
- Places lived: Australia,
- Crime country: Australia,
- Convicted: 2005,
- Was Unknown position,
- Convicted,
- 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
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- Crime: 1990s, 2000s,
- Places lived: Missouri,
- Crime state: Missouri,
- Convicted: 2003, 2005,
- Was Music leader, Scout leader,
- Convicted, Plea deal, Pleaded guilty, Prison,
- Lawsuit v. LDS church, Unknown result,
- Michael Davies was a Mormon church member in Wales; pleaded guilty to child sexual abuse
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- Crime: 2000s,
- Places lived: United Kingdom, Wales,
- Crime country: United Kingdom, Wales,
- Convicted: 2005,
- Was Unknown position,
- Convicted, Plea deal, Pleaded guilty,
- Ronald Hall (1931 – 2023) was an LDS church member and former Mormon Tabernacle Choir member in Utah and Washington; accused of sexually molesting three underage girls in 1997 or 1998; acquitted in 2000; accused of sexual abuse of a fourth victim, an underage girl, in approximately 2003; convicted in 2005 of third-degree felony attempted child sexual abuse; died in 2023
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- Crime: 1990s,
- Places lived: Utah, Washington,
- Crime state: Utah,
- Convicted: 2005,
- Was Seminary teacher, Tabernacle Choir,
- Convicted, Plea deal, Pleaded guilty, Registered sex offender, Unknown result,
- Larry Harmston was an LDS church member in Utah; accused of sexual abuse which allegedly took place at a Mormon chapel in Orem, Utah; convicted; charged again (result unknown)
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- Crime: 2000s, 2010s,
- Places lived: Utah,
- Crime state: Utah,
- Convicted: 2005,
- Was Unknown position,
- Convicted, Unknown result,
- 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
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- Crime: 2000s,
- Places lived: California,
- Crime state: California,
- Convicted: 2005,
- Was Sunday school,
- Convicted, Found guilty, Prison,
- Clayton Hildreth (1952 – ) was a Mormon stake president in Butte, Montana; from Dillon, Montana; arrested in June 2004 by Boise, Idaho police for soliciting sex from a person he thought was a 14-year-old girl online; was stake president at the time of his arrest; pleaded guilty in October to a charge of interstate travel with intent to have sex with a minor; sentenced in 2005 to three years and five months in prison
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- Crime: 2000s,
- Places lived: Idaho, Montana,
- Crime state: Idaho,
- Convicted: 2005,
- Was Bishop, Stake president,
- Convicted, Plea deal, Pleaded guilty, Prison,
- Alleged failure to report
- Roy Hunt (1959 – ) was a Mormon church member in Maricopa County, Arizona; former city manager in Snowflake and Holbrook and a public finance banker at the National Bank of Arizona; accused of child sexual abuse in 2004; pleaded guilty in 2005 to a reduced charge; sentenced to prison in Arizona in 2005
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- Crime: 1980s, 1990s,
- Places lived: Arizona, Maricopa County (Arizona),
- Crime state: Arizona,
- Crime county: AZ - Maricopa,
- Convicted: 2005,
- Was Unknown position,
- Convicted, Pleaded guilty, Prison,
- Alleged failure to report
- Louis Kinyon (1954 – ) was an LDS church member in Provo, Utah; convicted in 2005 of aggravated murder
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- Crime: 2000s,
- Places lived: Provo (Utah), Utah, Utah County (Utah),
- Crime state: Utah,
- Crime county: UT - Utah,
- Crime city: UT - Provo,
- Convicted: 2005,
- Convicted, Plea deal, Pleaded guilty, Prison,
- Maynard McFarland (1959 – ) was an LDS church member in California and Minnesota; sentenced in 2005 to 32 years in prison for sexually abusing his daughter for many years; released from prison in 2020; as of 2024, lives in Chula Vista, California as a registered sex offender
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- Crime: 1980s, 1990s, 2000s,
- Places lived: California, Minnesota, North Dakota,
- Crime state: California, Minnesota,
- Convicted: 2005,
- Was Unknown position,
- Convicted, Prison, Registered sex offender, Released,
- Lawsuit v. LDS church, Ongoing,
- Alleged failure to report
- John Misseldine (1982 – ) was a Mormon missionary in Nevada; charged with sexually abusing two children at an LDS chapel in the Las Vegas area; in 2005, made a plea deal to avoid prison, via an Alford plea to two counts; a lawsuit said a local Mormon leader failed to report abuse to police; in 2008, sentenced to prison after violating the plea deal; as of 2024, lives in Las Vegas, Nevada as a registered sex offender
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- Crime: 2000s,
- Places lived: Nevada,
- Crime state: Nevada,
- Convicted: 2005,
- Was Missionary,
- Alford plea, Convicted, Prison, Probation, Registered sex offender,
- Dismissed, Lawsuit v. LDS church, Settlement, Unknown result,
- Alleged failure to report
- Aaron Montoya (1972 – ) was a Mormon children's Primary teacher and law enforcement officer in Utah; found guilty in 2005 of sexually abusing children during LDS church meetings and at his home; later pleaded guilty in another case; in all, at least nine victims came forward; sentenced to prison in 2005; as of March 2025, is out of prison on parole and lives in Woods Cross, Utah as a registered sex offender
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- Crime: 2000s,
- Places lived: Utah,
- Crime state: Utah,
- Convicted: 2005,
- Was Primary,
- Convicted, Found guilty, Jury trial, Plea deal, Pleaded guilty, Prison, Registered sex offender, Released,
- Julio Morais was a Mormon church member in Pawtucket, Rhode Island; pleaded guilty to child sexual abuse
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- Crime: 2000s,
- Places lived: Rhode Island,
- Crime state: Rhode Island,
- Convicted: 2005, 2010,
- Was Unknown position,
- Convicted, Pleaded guilty,
- Johnathon Nixon was a Mormon church member in Indiana and Utah; convicted of sexual abuse in 2005 in Davis County, Utah; convicted again in 2018 and sentenced to prison
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- Crime: 2000s,
- Places lived: Indiana, Utah,
- Crime state: Indiana, Utah,
- Convicted: 2005, 2018,
- Was Unknown position,
- Convicted, Prison,
- Chance Ray (1980 – ) was a Mormon church member and scout leader in the Mesa, Arizona area; convicted of child sexual abuse and sentenced to prison in Arizona; spent approximately 14 years in prison; released in July 2020
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- Crime: 2000s,
- Places lived: Arizona, Maricopa County (Arizona),
- Crime state: Arizona,
- Crime county: AZ - Maricopa,
- Convicted: 2005,
- Was Scout leader,
- Convicted, Prison, Released,
- James Sirles (1924 – 2018) was a Mormon church member in Chesterfield, Virginia; convicted of possession of child pornography and production and distribution of child pornography
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- Crime: 2000s,
- Places lived: Virginia,
- Crime state: Virginia,
- Convicted: 2005,
- Convicted, Pleaded guilty, Unknown result,
- Bradley Stowell (1972 – ) 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
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- Crime: 1980s, 1990s, 2000s,
- Places lived: Idaho, Salt Lake County (Utah), Utah,
- Crime state: Idaho,
- Convicted: 2005, 2008,
- Was Missionary, Scout leader,
- Convicted, Plea deal, Pleaded guilty, Prison, Probation, Registered sex offender,
- Lawsuit v. LDS church, Unknown result,
- Alleged failure to report

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