When Crime: 1980s

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148 Mormon sexual abuse cases

Crime years: 1980s

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George William Aaron
- was a former Mormon bishop in a college ward in Provo, Utah; allegedly sexually abused his two teenage daughters in the 1980s and early 1990s; found civilly liable in 2001 to have "inflicted emotional distress," "breached fiduciary duty," and behaved with "reckless disregard" toward his younger daughter; paid $25,000 in punitive damages.
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- Criminal: Never charged, Not convicted,
- Civil: Judgment for plaintiff,
- Alleged coverup
James F. Adams
- was an elder in the LDS church in Beckley, West Virginia; sentenced to prison for sexually abusing multiple children.
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- Criminal: Convicted,
- Civil: Lawsuit v. LDS church, Settlement,
- Alleged coverup
- LDS church payment: Undisclosed amount
Terry George Allen
- was an LDS church member in California; in 1987, was found guilty of sexual abuse of a child and was sentenced to six years in prison; was assigned to multiple trusted church positions, including Sunday school president, despite the Mormon church being aware that he had raped a teenager; LDS leaders were accused of hiding his abuse from local church members; as of 2024, lives in Grapevine, Texas.
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- Criminal: Convicted, Prison, Registered sex offender, Released,
- Civil: No civil case,
- Alleged coverup
Jose Antonio Arias
- was a Mormon church missionary in Palm Desert, California; accused of sexual abuse; civil suit filed against LDS church and Arias; judge awarded judgment by default for the plaintiff (victim) against Arias in 2017 in the amount of approximately $4.2 million; the LDS church was not found liable.
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- Criminal: Never charged, Not convicted,
- Civil: Judgment for plaintiff, Lawsuit v. LDS church,
- Alleged coverup
Larren Bybee Arnold
- was a Mormon church member and scout leader in Idaho; in 1984, arrested for lewd conduct with a minor under sixteen (molested a nine year-old boy) in Idaho; convicted in October 1984; received a five year suspended sentence and three years probation.
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- Criminal: Convicted,
- Civil: Lawsuit v. LDS church, Unknown result,
- LDS church payment: Undisclosed amount
Arlo Kay Atkin
- was a former LDS bishop in or near Chandler, Maricopa County, Arizona; accused of raping and impregnating a 14-year-old girl in his ward while he was her bishop; pleaded guilty, served time in prison.
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- Criminal: Convicted,
- Civil: Dismissed with prejudice, Lawsuit v. LDS church, Unknown result,
- Alleged coverup
Bishop Baldwin
- was a Mormon bishop in Pittsburg, California in 1989; in 2024, accused in a civil lawsuit of child sexual abuse that allegedly lasted from 1989 to 1997, when the victim was 5 to 13 years old; the suit was one of 91 or more coordinated civil suits filed in California in 2024 against the Mormon church.
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- Criminal: Never charged, Not convicted,
- Civil: Lawsuit v. LDS church, Ongoing,
- Alleged coverup
Norman Carl Barber
- was a Mormon church member and dentist in Layton, Utah; was a scout leader; pleaded guilty in 1988 to sexually abusing two girls who were his dental patients; the sexual abuse occurred in his dental office and included drugging one or both girls with nitrous oxide.
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- Criminal: Convicted,
- Civil: No civil case,
- Alleged coverup
Bryan A Barner
- was a Mormon church member in New York in the 1980s; scout leader, molested a 12-year-old boy and two 13-year-old boys; sentenced to no more than one year in prison.
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- Criminal: Convicted,
- Civil: No civil case,
George Barnett
- was a Mormon church member in Cerritos, California; accused in a 2025 lawsuit against the Mormon church of sexually abusing a child as part of a sex trafficking ring, and of covering up the abuse; the plaintiff said she was abused over 200 times at the Cerritos LDS stake center from 1979 to 1983.
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- Criminal: Never charged, Not convicted,
- Civil: Lawsuit v. LDS church, Ongoing,
- Alleged coverup
Alan Brower Bassett
- was a Mormon church member and air traffic controller in Fruit Heights, Utah; accused in a 2019 civil lawsuit of child sexual abuse (dismissed without prejudice); charged in June 2024 with child sexual abuse; over 80 victims came forward; admitted to molesting many neighbor girls; tried to get his case dismissed due to an unsigned 1989 agreement with a deputy Davis County attorney.
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- Criminal: Ongoing,
- Civil: Dismissed without prejudice,
- Alleged coverup
Robert Ersol Berchtold
- was a Mormon church member in Idaho; sexually abused a child; in 1986, was found guilty of rape of a child and spent one year in jail.
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- Criminal: Convicted,
- Civil: No civil case,
Arthur Gary Bishop
- was a Mormon boy scout leader in Utah; was excommunicated in the 1970s; later molested multiple children and killed five young boys; was sentenced to death by lethal injection in 1988.
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- Criminal: Convicted,
- Civil: No civil case,
Joseph Layton Bishop
- was a Mormon church member and president of the Provo, Utah Missionary Training Center (MTC) in the 1980s; allegedly sexually abused multiple sister missionaries; not criminally charged because the statute of limitations had expired (in 1984, the legal deadline in Utah for filing a rape charge was four years); civil lawsuit was dismissed after an agreement by the plaintiff and the LDS church.
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- Criminal: Police investigation,
- Civil: Dismissed, Dismissed with prejudice, Lawsuit v. LDS church,
Charles John Blome
- was a Mormon church member and US Army veteran in or near Houston or Beaumont, Texas; admitted to sexually molesting at least five boys; pleaded guilty to two counts of indecency with a child; sentenced to 15 years in prison; the LDS church was ordered to pay $4 million to a 13-year-old boy victim; Blome died in 2005.
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- Criminal: Convicted, Prison,
- Civil: Judgment for plaintiff, Lawsuit v. LDS church,
- Alleged coverup
- LDS church payment: $4,000,000
David James Borg
- was a Mormon church member and scout leader; pleaded guilty to molesting multiple boys; sentenced to 34 years in prison.
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- Criminal: Convicted, Prison,
- Civil: No civil case,
Dennis Bough
- was a Mormon church member in Washington; pleaded guilty to child sexual abuse charges.
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- Criminal: Convicted,
- Civil: No civil case,
Peter Curtis Brackner
- was second counselor in an LDS bishopric in Purvis, Mississippi, and a scoutmaster; accused of sexual abuse.
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- Criminal: Never charged, Not convicted,
- Civil: Lawsuit v. LDS church, Unknown result,
- Alleged coverup
Carlfred Bartholomew Broderick
- was a Mormon stake president in Cerritos, California; accused in a 2025 lawsuit against the Mormon church of sexually abusing a child as part of a sex trafficking ring, and of covering up the abuse; the plaintiff said she was abused over 200 times at the Cerritos LDS stake center from 1979 to 1983.
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- Criminal: Never charged, Not convicted,
- Civil: Lawsuit v. LDS church, Ongoing,
- Alleged coverup
Sheril Dale Burton
- was a Mormon church member and BYU professor in Utah; found guilty of sexual abuse of two underage girls sentenced to up to 15 years in prison; as of January 2024, lives in Pleasant Grove, Utah.
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- Criminal: Convicted,
- Civil: No civil case,
Robert D Campbell
- was an LDS church member in Nebraska; accused of sexual abuse.
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- Criminal: Unknown result,
- Civil: Unknown result,
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.
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- Criminal: Convicted, Prison,
- Civil: No civil case,
Albert Eugene Carlson
- was a Mormon church member in Utah, New Mexico and Texas; arrested in the 1980s in Utah on a molestation charge after allegedly molesting an underage boy who he met through the church; the case was dropped to a lewdness charge which did not require him to register as a sex offender; in 2025, sentenced in Texas to life in prison for child sexual abuse.
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- Criminal: Convicted, Found guilty, No contest, Prison,
- Civil: No civil case,
Jon Rick Carpenter
- was an LDS church member; sentenced to prison for child sexual abuse; the day after sentencing, injured himself to avoid serving longer in prison.
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- Criminal: Convicted,
- Civil: No civil case,
Niles Lorence Carr
- was a Mormon missionary in Ireland in the late 1980s, originally from California; convicted of child sexual abuse charges; Mormon leaders allegedly assigned Carr to work with boy scouts after knowing he was sent home from his mission due to child sex abuse allegations.
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- Alleged coverup
William Carstensen
- was a Mormon church member in Bountiful, Utah; accused of child sexual abuse; charged; died by suicide.
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- Criminal: Not convicted, Police investigation, Suicide, Unknown result,
- Civil: Dismissed, Dismissed without prejudice,
Max Todd Cheatham
- was an LDS church member in Utah and Colorado; accused of sexual abuse; convicted in Colorado of child sexual abuse.
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- Criminal: Convicted,
- Civil: No civil case,
Frank James Collins
- was an LDS church member and traveling professional clown (as "Windy the Clown") in Whittier, California; accused of sexual abuse in 1986; charges dropped.
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- Criminal: Charges dropped, Not convicted,
Martyn Conway
- was a Mormon church member; pleaded guilty of child sexual abuse.
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- Criminal: Convicted,
- Civil: No civil case,
Kenneth Ray Copple
- was a Mormon church member in Arizona; found guilty of child sexual abuse and sentenced in 2019 to prison.
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- Criminal: Convicted, Found guilty, Jury trial, Prison,
- Alleged coverup
Alfred Francis Cote
- was a Mormon church member and Boy scout leader in New Hampshire and Nauvoo, Illinois; convicted in the 1980s and in 2020 of child sexual abuse.
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- Criminal: Convicted,
- Alleged coverup
John Lee Cox
- was a Mormon church member in Clackamas County, Oregon; convicted of child sexual abuse.
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- Criminal: Convicted,
- Civil: No civil case,
Luke Elbert Dalton
- was a Mormon church member; admitted to sexually abusing dozens of boys over decades in Ohio, Montana and Utah; arrested in 1997 in Utah for sexually abusing his only son; convicted and sentenced to prison; served 3.5 years in prison.
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- Criminal: Convicted, Prison,
- Civil: No civil case,
George S Davis
- was an LDS church member in Rhode Island; accused of sexual abuse that allegedly took place in an LDS chapel.
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- Criminal: Convicted, Jury trial, Prison,
- Civil: No civil case,
- Alleged coverup
Thomas Eugene Dawkins
- was an LDS church member in Columbia, South Carolina; accused of sexual abuse; convicted in 1986; the conviction was later overturned.
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- Criminal: Convicted, Overturned/reversed,
Richard Lloyd Dilley
- was an LDS church member and scout leader in Burien, near Seattle, Washington; dishonorably discharged from the Navy in 1983 after admitting to abusing boys in a Scouting program in Athens, Greece; pleaded guilty in 1990 to one count of third degree child rape and five counts of child molestation for "repeated" offenses over two years of the scouts in his LDS troop; sentenced to 9 years in prison.
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- Criminal: Convicted, Pleaded guilty, Prison,
- Civil: No civil case,
John Doe
- was a Mormon bishop in or near Salt Lake City, Utah; accused of sexual abuse of a 13-year-old boy; the alleged sexual assault took place in the Salt Lake Temple in the 1980s (approximately 1986), during a visit to perform baptisms for the dead.
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- Criminal: Never charged, Not convicted,
- Civil: No civil case,
John Doe
- was a Mormon church member in Tacoma, Washington; sexually abused a preschooler in his ward in the 1980s; the LDS church settled with the abuse survivor for $1.1 million in 2023.
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- Criminal: Never charged, Not convicted,
- Alleged coverup
- LDS church payment: $1,100,000
John Doe
- was a Mormon church member in Lake Elsinore, California; arrested in 1997; pleaded guilty to committing lewd acts with a child under age 14; spent three years in state prison; in December 2022, the LDS church paid $995,000 to settle its part of a related civil lawsuit wherein a jury awarded the victim $2.28 billion.
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- Criminal: Convicted, Plea agreement, Pleaded guilty, Prison, Released,
- Civil: Lawsuit v. LDS church, Settlement,
- Alleged coverup
- LDS church payment: $995,000
John Doe
- was an LDS church member in Adelaide, Australia; sentenced in 2021 to 10 years in prison for child sexual abuse.
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- Criminal: Convicted, Prison,
John Doe
- was an LDS church member; accused of sexual abuse.
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- Criminal: Never charged, Not convicted,
- Civil: Lawsuit v. LDS church,
- Alleged coverup
John Doe
- was a Mormon temple worker in Los Angeles, California; accused in a 2025 lawsuit against the LDS church of sexually assaulting a man in 1984 while performing a private anointing ritual in the Los Angeles LDS temple.
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- Criminal: Never charged, Not convicted,
- Civil: Lawsuit v. LDS church, Ongoing,
- Alleged coverup
Michael Driggs
- was a Mormon missionary in Brazil in the early 1970s; allegedly sent to a different mission in the United States after being found having inappropriate relationships with young boys; convicted of child sexual abuse in 1985 in Arizona; convicted again of child sexual abuse in 2013 in Utah; he met his victim in the Utah case at church, according to court documents.
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- Criminal: Convicted, Plea agreement, Pleaded guilty, Prison, Registered sex offender,
- Civil: No civil case,
- Alleged coverup
Larry Van Dyke
- was a Mormon church member; accused of sexual abuse.
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- Criminal: Unknown result,
Oliver Dean Eames
- was an LDS church member, sixth grade teacher and Mormon Tabernacle Choir singer in Farmington, Utah; admitted to trying to fondle several children he had been hired to tutor; pleaded guilty in 1988 to two felony counts of attempted aggravated sexual abuse of a child; local police had documented 52 alleged child sexual abuse incidents involving him.
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- Criminal: Convicted,
- Civil: No civil case,
Karl Monsen Elvik
- was a Mormon church youth leader in Glasgow, Scotland; admitted indecency offences against eight boys; was jailed for 18 months..
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- Criminal: Convicted, Jail, Registered sex offender,
Dennis Joe Empey
- was a Mormon church member and scout leader in Blackfoot, Idaho; accused of sexually abusing many children; his stake president allegedly knew Empey was abusing kids; convicted of child molestation in May 1991; sentenced to two years probation.
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- Criminal: Convicted, Probation,
- Alleged coverup
Matthew LeRoy Faerber
- was an LDS church member and high school choir director in Murray, Utah; pleaded guilty in 1990 or 1991 to two counts of attempted sexual abuse of a child; sentenced in February 1991 to six months in jail (two of those months under house arrest) followed by three years of supervised release.
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- Criminal: Convicted, Jail, Probation, Released,
Stephen D Field
- was a Mormon church member; accused of sexual abuse; sentenced to prison.
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- Criminal: Convicted, Prison,
- Civil: No civil case,
- Alleged coverup
Michael James Fischer
- was a Mormon church member and young men's president; accused of sexual abuse; sentenced to prison.
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- Criminal: Convicted,
Vernon Foster
- was an LDS church member in Louisiana; accused of sexual abuse; pleaded guilty; was convicted.
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- Criminal: Convicted, Pleaded guilty,
William W Gillespie
- was an LDS church member in Alabama; accused of sexual abuse; convicted; conviction was reversed on appeal.
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- Criminal: Convicted, Overturned/reversed, Unknown result,
- Alleged coverup
David James Gomez
- was a former LDS bishop and department of corrections administrator in Utah; arrested in 2004 and charged with 125 counts of sexual abuse; charges were dropped in 2005 due to issues related to the statutes of limitations.
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- Criminal: Charges dropped,
- Civil: No civil case,
Kenneth Robert Good
- was a Mormon church member in Georgia; accused of molesting 4 underage girls; pleaded guilty of child sexual abuse; sentenced in 1991 to 8 years in prison; released on parole in December 1993; as of 2023, lives in Taylorsville Utah.
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- Criminal: Convicted, Prison,
Mark Leroy Gum
- was an Mormon scout leader in Oxnard, California; a 2011 lawsuit against the LDS church and the Boy Scouts of America accused him of sexually assaulting a boy scout; while the boy was living with Gum (with the consent of the boy's parents), church members visited and accepted the living arrangement, the suit said; in 2012, the Mormon church made a settlement payment for an undisclosed amount.
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- Criminal: Never charged, Not convicted,
- Civil: Dismissed, Lawsuit v. LDS church, Settlement,
- Alleged coverup
- LDS church payment: Undisclosed amount
Eric Hacking
- was an LDS church member; pleaded guilty to child sexual abuse.
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- Criminal: Convicted,
Albert Dee Halladay
- was a former LDS bishop in Sandy, Utah; accused of sexual abuse in 1988; pleaded guilty in 1989 to one second degree felony charge of sex abuse of a child; convicted.
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- Criminal: Convicted, Pleaded guilty,
- Civil: No civil case,
David Lee Hamblin
- was an LDS church member in Utah; arrested in 2022 and charged with sexual abuse of a child; connected to an ongoing investigation into ritualistic sexual abuse in Utah; ex-husband of Roselle Stevenson, who was arrested in 2023 and charged with child sexual abuse.
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- Criminal: Ongoing,
Leroy Ball Hamblin
- was a Webelos scout leader in Kaysville, Utah; pleaded guilty in 1987 to lewdness with a child; served prison time.
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- Criminal: Convicted,
Kenneth L Hanigan
- was an LDS church member; accused of sexual abuse.
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- Criminal: Unknown result,
Brent Dixson Hansen
- was an LDS church member and dentist in Spanish Fork, Utah; was also mayor of Spanish Fork and president of its chamber of commerce; accused in a civil lawsuit of receiving sexual favors from a dentistry patient in return for prescriptions for narcotics; his dentistry license was suspended for 30 days; died in 2015.
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- Criminal: Never charged, Not convicted,
- Civil: Settlement, Unknown result,
William Harding
- was an LDS church member and former Mormon bishop and ward clerk in Tasmania, Australia and Queensland, Australia; charged in or before 2023 with multiple counts of sexual assault of a minor in two states in Australia.
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- Criminal: Ongoing, Unknown result,
- Alleged coverup
Marvin Ross Harker
- was an LDS bishop in Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada in 2016; reportedly confessed to his mission president in 1987 to sexually abusing multiple children; also reportedly confessed to his bishop; both leaders told him not to report to police, according to records in a 2016 criminal case; convicted in 2019 (alleged abuse 1986-93); sentenced in 2020 to five years in prison; registered sex offender.
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- Criminal: Convicted, Prison,
- Civil: No civil case,
- Alleged coverup
Kenneth Morgan Harper
- was an LDS church member; accused of sexual abuse.
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- Criminal: Convicted,
Lynn William Harrison
- was an LDS church member; accused of sexual abuse.
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- Criminal: Convicted, No contest,
Devin Richard Hartman
- was an LDS church member in Mableton, near Atlanta, Georgia; accused of sexual abuse; convicted; given two consecutive sentences of life in prison.
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- Criminal: Convicted, Prison,
- Alleged coverup
Michael L Hicks
- was an LDS church member; accused of sexual abuse; sentenced to prison.
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- Criminal: Convicted,
Grant Joel Hildreth
- was an LDS church member in Montana; sentenced to prison in 1992 for felony child sexual abuse; in 2011, pleaded guilty to two class A misdemeanor counts of sexual battery; died in 2022.
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- Criminal: Convicted,
James Francis Hogan
- was a Mormon church member and scout leader in Oregon; in 1989, was sentenced to five years in prison for child sexual abuse; released in 1994; in 2011, a victim filed a civil lawsuit against the Boy Scouts of America, seeking $5.2 million.
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- Criminal: Convicted, Pleaded guilty, Prison, Released,
- Civil: Settlement,
- Alleged coverup
- LDS church payment: Undisclosed amount
Roy Webb Hunt
- 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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- Criminal: Convicted, Pleaded guilty, Prison,
- Alleged coverup
Carl Matthew Johnson
- was a former mayor of West Bountiful, UT; former Mormon bishop in Utah; arrested for and charged with sexually abusing several children; pleaded guilty in January 2023 to four felony counts of child sexual abuse; sentenced in March 2023 to prison.
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- Criminal: Convicted,
- Civil: No civil case,
Kenneth I Johnson
- was a Mormon church member and home teacher in Beaverton, Oregon; a victim filed a $55.7 million lawsuit against the Mormon church saying Johnson had sexually molested him when Johnson was his home teacher; the alleged sexual abuse took place as often as twice a week for two years between 1987 and 1989.
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- Criminal: Unknown result,
- Civil: Lawsuit v. LDS church, Unknown result,
- Alleged coverup
Les Ernest Johnson
- was a Mormon church member in northern Utah; found guilty of child sexual abuse; was granted parole in 1984 in Utah after serving 7 months of a 0-5 year prison sentence; as of 2023, lives in Bountiful, Utah.
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- Criminal: Convicted, Prison, Released,
Gary Jones
- was a Mormon church member in Cerritos, California; accused in a 2025 lawsuit against the Mormon church of sexually abusing a child as part of a sex trafficking ring, and of covering up the abuse; the plaintiff said she was abused over 200 times at the Cerritos LDS stake center from 1979 to 1983.
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- Criminal: Never charged, Not convicted,
- Civil: Lawsuit v. LDS church, Ongoing,
Doyle Clarence Kelstrom
- was a Mormon church member in Oregon and Utah; accused of child sexual abuse; sentenced in 1992 to five years to life in prison in Utah.
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- Criminal: Convicted, Prison, Probation,
- Alleged coverup
Willis Dale King
- was an LDS church member; accused of sexual abuse; pleaded guilty.
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- Criminal: Convicted,
William Eugene Knox
- was a Mormon church member and scout leader; accused of sexually abusing multiple children.
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- Criminal: Unknown result,
- Civil: Lawsuit v. LDS church, Unknown result,
- Alleged coverup
George Koford
- was a Mormon bishop in Cerritos, California; accused in a 2025 lawsuit against the Mormon church of sexually abusing a child as part of a sex trafficking ring, and of covering up the abuse; the plaintiff said she was abused over 200 times at the Cerritos LDS stake center from 1979 to 1983.
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- Criminal: Never charged, Not convicted,
- Civil: Lawsuit v. LDS church, Ongoing,
Kip E Later
- was an LDS church member and scout leader in Idaho; accused in the 1980s of sexual abuse; Mormon church leaders allegedly failed to tell police about abuse allegations.
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- Criminal: Unknown result,
- Civil: No civil case,
- Alleged coverup
Dennis Joe Loveless
- was a Mormon church member in Farmington, Utah; accused of sexual abuse in 1977 and 1984; sentenced to prison both times; died in 2016.
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- Criminal: Convicted,
Franklin Leon Mathias
- was a former Mormon church member and Boy scout leader in Oregon; had a career as a schoolteacher; accused in 1987 of sexual abuse; sentenced in 1988 to four years in prison for molesting a child; he said that he had 242 victims over a 30 year period.
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- Criminal: Convicted, Prison,
- Civil: Unknown result,
Norman Arthur Maxfield
- was an LDS church member and high school drama teacher in Utah; convicted in 1988 of sexually abusing boys.
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- Criminal: Convicted, Unknown result,
Timothy O'Sean 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.
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- Criminal: Convicted, Prison,
Brenda Nelson Miles
- was an LDS church member in Bountiful, Utah; accused of child sexual abuse.
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- Criminal: Never charged, Not convicted,
- Civil: Dismissed with prejudice,
Jay Douglas Mitchell
- was an Mormon church member and scout leader in Oregon; sentenced to a total of sixty years in prison with a minimum of thirty years, for child sexual abuse.
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- Criminal: Convicted, Prison,
Brian David Mitchell
- was a Mormon church member and temple worker in Utah; abductor, with Wanda Barzee, of Elizabeth Smart.
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- Criminal: Convicted,
Thomas Lee Monson
- was an attorney for the LDS church's law firm, Kirton McConkie; In 1989, Monson paid a $75 fine and was placed on probation after he pleaded guilty to charges of soliciting sex from a prostitute; sued in the 1990s for sexual harassment; reached a settlement with the victim; was a Mormon bishop in Utah in 2008.
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- Criminal: Convicted, Pleaded guilty,
- Civil: Settlement,
Joseph Montanino
- was an LDS church member and scout leader in Massachusetts; had a career as a police officer; accused in 1982 of sexual abuse.
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- Criminal: Convicted,
Scotty Hyrum Mortensen
- was an LDS church member and scout leader in Utah; accused in 1988 of child sexual abuse.
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- Criminal: Unknown result,
- Civil: No civil case,
Gerald Elbert Mortimer
- was an OB/GYN doctor in Idaho and former Mormon temple president and mission president in the Philippines; admitted in 2019 to secretly using his sperm to artificially inseminate multiple women; a civil suit against him was dismissed with prejudice in 2021, possibly because of a private settlement agreement.
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- Criminal: Admitted guilt, Never charged, Not convicted,
- Civil: Dismissed with prejudice,
Ralph Edward Neeley
- was an LDS church member in the Beaumont, Texas area; was sentenced in January 1994 to life in prison in Texas for repeated sexual abuse of an 8-year-old girl in an LDS chapel during church meetings and in other locations; died in prison in 2020; the Mormon church reportedly paid several million US dollars in a settlement to the victim.
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- Criminal: Admitted guilt, Convicted, Prison,
- Alleged coverup
- LDS church payment: $5,000,000
Steve Nelson
- was an LDS church member in Idaho; in 2009, pleaded guilty to a charge of lewd conduct; sentenced to 30 years in prison; Mormon leaders failed to report abuse to police in the 1980s.
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- Criminal: Convicted, Prison,
- Alleged coverup
Richard W Nelson
- was an LDS church member; pleaded guilty to child sexual abuse.
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- Criminal: Convicted,
Robert Kenneth Nelson
- was an LDS bishop in Victoria, British Columbia, Canada; accused of sexual abuse of a "mentally handicapped" woman; pleaded guilty in 1989; placed on two years probation, ordered to do 150 hours of community service, and ordered to take a conducted tour of a local jail.
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- Criminal: Community service, Convicted, Jail, Pleaded guilty, Probation,
Keven Brad Nelson
- was an LDS church member and Boy Scout leader in Idaho Falls, Idaho; accused of grooming and/or sexual abuse by multiple boys in his scout troop; in 1988, his BSA registration was suspended.
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- Criminal: Never charged, Not convicted,
- Alleged coverup
Rand Darrell Newby
- was an LDS church member and scout leader in Washington, Oregon and San Francisco, California; had a career as a schoolteacher; charged in Oregon in 1986 with sexual abuse of two children; convicted of two counts, one class C felony and one class A misdemeanor; sentenced in 1987 to 5 years probation.
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- Criminal: Convicted, Plea agreement, Pleaded guilty, Probation,
- Civil: No civil case,
Thomas Opfar
- was a Mormon church member; pleaded guilty of child sexual abuse.
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- Criminal: Convicted,
Dan S Overholt
- was an LDS church member; accused of sexual abuse.
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- Criminal: Unknown result,
John Edward Parkinson
- was a Mormon stake president (1981-1991) and physician in Fairfield, California; sentenced to prison in 1997 for sexually abusing two female patients, but the judge delayed the sentence pending an appeal; his conviction was later reversed.
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- Criminal: Convicted, Jury trial, Overturned/reversed, Prison,
- Alleged coverup
Brian Richard Peterson
- was an LDS church member and scout leader in Orem, Utah; accused of sexual abuse; convicted and sentenced to prison.
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- Criminal: Convicted, Prison,
- Civil: No civil case,
Brian Richard Pickett
- was a Mormon branch president and leader at a youth program picking pineapples in Maui, Hawaii; accused of sexual abuse in a civil lawsuit that also named the LDS church; the suit was dismissed with prejudice after a settlement in 2016.
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- Criminal: Never charged, Not convicted,
- Civil: Dismissed with prejudice, Lawsuit v. LDS church, Settlement,
- Alleged coverup
- LDS church payment: Undisclosed amount
Geoffrey James Powell
- was an LDS bishop in Western Australia; accused of sexually abusing a seven-year-old girl in his ward; the alleged abuse took place while he was a bishop; the victim twice complained to the LDS church, but said she was not believed and was chastised, and it was suggested she should move away if she felt uncomfortable; in 2019, he was sentenced to 12 months in jail.
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- Criminal: Convicted, Jail,
- Civil: No civil case,
- Alleged coverup
Kenneth R Rarick
- was a Mormon church member in Alaska; accused of sexual abuse; convicted.
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- Criminal: Convicted,
Richard Kenneth Ray
- was an LDS church member in Arizona; sentenced to prison for sexually abusing children; the LDS church was involved in a lawsuit regarding clergy-penitent privilege; the church settled out of court.
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- Criminal: Convicted,
- Civil: Settlement,
- Alleged coverup
- LDS church payment: Undisclosed amount
Phillip Kowalewski Rimmasch
- was a Mormon church member and scout leader in Utah in the 1980s; had a 50-plus year career as a mortician; convicted of child sexual abuse; on appeal, the Utah Supreme Court ordered a new trial in 1989.
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- Criminal: Convicted, Overturned/reversed,
Lowell Robison
- was a Mormon mission president in the Mexico Leon mission (1995-1998); accused in 2018 of sexual abuse of multiple people; two months later, died by suicide.
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- Criminal: Never charged, Not convicted,
- Civil: No civil case,
- Alleged coverup
Carlos Rodrigues
- was an LDS church member in Dallas, Texas in the 1980s; accused of sexual abuse.
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- Criminal: Convicted,
- Alleged coverup
UNKNOWN Ross
- was an LDS high priest and stake seventy in California; in 2024, accused in a civil lawsuit of child sexual abuse; the suit was one of 91 or more coordinated civil suits filed in California in 2024 against the Mormon church.
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- Criminal: Never charged, Not convicted,
- Civil: Lawsuit v. LDS church, Ongoing,
Nefi Rubalcava
- was a Mormon bishop in Norwalk/Cerritos in southern California; accused of child sexual abuse in two lawsuits filed against the Mormon church in 2025; he was the foster father of one of his alleged victims and the bishop of both of them; he allegedly participated in a sex trafficking ring involving at least one other bishop and a stake president.
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- Civil: Lawsuit v. LDS church, Ongoing,
Eldon Andrew Saling
- was a Mormon church member in California and Utah; convicted in 1987 in California and in 1993 in Utah of charges related to sexual abuse; as of 2024, lives in Burley, Idaho as a registered sex offender.
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- Criminal: Convicted, Registered sex offender,
- Civil: No civil case,
George Martin Schliesser
- was a Mormon church member and primary teacher in Utah; was a scout leader and a primary leader who was charged with two counts of sodomy on a child and two counts of sex abuse on a child in 1990; in September 2021 he was arrested after a third attempt at voyeurism, the first two in 2020.
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- Criminal: Convicted,
James Phillip Schmidt
- was an LDS church member and scout leader, with multiple charges of child sexual abuse over six years; convicted in the late 1990s in Maryland; as of 2024, registered as a sex offender.
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- Criminal: Convicted,
- Civil: Unknown result,
- Alleged coverup
Orin Ervin Searle
- was an LDS church member in Ogden, Utah; accused of sexual abuse in 2013 but was deemed incompetent to stand trial; a victim said that Searle's predatory behavior began as early as the late 1950s, and that several family members, and multiple members of the LDS 44th Ward (Mount Ogden Stake), knew that Searle was a child molester but did nothing to stop him; died in 2014.
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- Criminal: Not convicted,
- Civil: No civil case,
- Alleged coverup
Wayne Sells
- was a Mormon church member; accused of sexual abuse.
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- Criminal: Unknown result,
- Civil: No civil case,
Glen Howard Sexton
- was a Mormon church member; accused of sexual abuse.
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- Criminal: Unknown result,
Michael Rex Shean
- was a Mormon bishopric counselor and temple worker, and deputy district attorney in Santa Maria, Santa Barbara County, California; convicted of sexually molesting boys.
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- Criminal: Convicted, Prison,
- Civil: Judgment for plaintiff, Lawsuit v. LDS church, Settlement,
- Alleged coverup
- LDS church payment: Undisclosed amount
Charles Michael Snider
- was an LDS church member in Georgia; accused of sexual abuse.
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- Criminal: Convicted,
Sidney L Spencer
- was a Mormon church member and scout leader in Idaho; convicted in 1984 of child sexual abuse; a Mormon bishop approved his application to be a scout leader despite his prior sex crime conviction.
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- Criminal: Convicted,
- Civil: No civil case,
- Alleged coverup
Roselle Anderson Stevenson
- was an LDS church member in Utah; accused in August 2023 of child sexual abuse; ex-wife of ritualistic abuse suspect David Hamblin.
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- Criminal: Ongoing,
Robert David Stillwell
- was a Mormon church member and boy scout leader in Salt Lake City, Utah; accused of sexual abuse in 1987; convicted in 1993 and 1998 in separate cases of child sexual abuse; reportedly, the local Mormon bishop became aware of the abuse but didn't take any church disciplinary action.
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- Criminal: Convicted,
- Alleged coverup
Douglas George Stoddard
- was an LDS bishop in Hurst, Texas; convicted in 1992 of a felony child sexual abuse charge of indecency with a child by contact; sentenced to 8 years of probation; a lifetime registered sex offender in Texas; named publicly in August 2023 by a victim who said Stoddard molested him and three other boys in his Mormon ward while serving as bishop.
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- Criminal: Convicted, Probation, Registered sex offender,
Bradley Grant 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.
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- Criminal: Convicted, Prison, Probation, Registered sex offender,
- Civil: Unknown result,
- Alleged coverup
James Grant Stringham
- was an LDS church member and physician in Salt Lake City; in 1982, was found guilty of sexual exploitation of a minor; was sentenced to five years probation and ordered to pay $7,500 restitution.
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- Criminal: Convicted,
- Civil: No civil case,
Jason Strong
- was an LDS church member in Utah; accused of sexual abuse.
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- Criminal: Unknown result,
- Civil: Unknown result,
- Alleged coverup
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- Criminal: Convicted, Never charged, Not convicted, Ongoing, Pleaded guilty, Prison, Unknown result,
Mark A Swanson
- was a Mormon church member and scout leader in Idaho; accused of sexual abuse; a local Mormon bishop recommended him for a scout leader position, reportedly because "he feels he is completely rehabilitated".
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- Criminal: Unknown result,
- Civil: No civil case,
- Alleged coverup
Peter Taylor
- was a Mormon church member in Washington; confessed to sexual abuse of his two underage stepdaughters; convicted; Mormon church lost a civil lawsuit and was court ordered to pay the victims $2.5 million.
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- Criminal: Convicted, Pleaded guilty,
- Civil: Judgment for plaintiff, Settlement,
- Alleged coverup
- LDS church payment: $2,500,000
Brent E Taylor
- was the Utah Valley Youth Symphony orchestra director and an LDS Sunday school teacher; accused in 2018 of sexually abusing multiple boys; a judge ruled in 2023 that he had exaggerated his health issues to avoid trial; pleaded guilty in June 2024; sentenced twice to prison in two separate child sex abuse cases in 2024.
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- Criminal: Convicted, Fled or failed to appear, Ongoing, Pleaded guilty, Prison,
- Civil: No civil case,
Anthony Mark Teeples
- was an LDS church member in Cache County, Utah; accused of sexual abuse; convicted in 1989 and in 2019.
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- Criminal: Convicted, Pleaded guilty, Unknown result,
Glendon Templeton
- was a Mormon bishop, Sunday school teacher and scout leader in Arizona; accused but never prosecuted for alleged sex crimes.
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- Criminal: Never charged, Not convicted,
- Civil: No civil case,
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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- Criminal: Convicted, Prison,
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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- Criminal: Convicted, Prison,
George Kermit Tilson
- was a Mormon church member in the Salt Lake City, Utah area (including Holladay); pleaded guilty to child sexual abuse in the 1990s; alleged coverup by Mormon leaders.
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- Criminal: Convicted,
- Civil: Lawsuit v. LDS church, Unknown result,
- Alleged coverup
Edgar A Tisdale
- was a Mormon church member in Washington; accused of sexual abuse.
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- Criminal: Unknown result,
- Civil: No civil case,
Jay Toombs
- was an LDS church member and private investigator in Benson, Cache Valley, Utah; accused of sexual abuse; allegations of his abuse were reportedly known to three LDS bishops and stake president Jerry Toombs (his older brother), who never reported it to police; convicted in 2000 and sentenced to life in prison.
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- Criminal: Convicted, Prison,
- Civil: No civil case,
- Alleged coverup
Bruce Van Horn
- was a Mormon church member in Cerritos, California; accused in a 2025 lawsuit against the Mormon church of sexually abusing a child as part of a sex trafficking ring, and of covering up the abuse; the plaintiff said she was abused over 200 times at the Cerritos LDS stake center from 1979 to 1983.
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- Criminal: Never charged, Not convicted,
- Civil: Lawsuit v. LDS church, Ongoing,
- Alleged coverup
Homer Lewis Van Matre
- was an LDS church member in Salt Lake County, Utah; found guilty of sexual abuse of child and sodomy on a child and charges were reversed in appeal when child recanted her story.
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- Criminal: Convicted, Overturned/reversed,
James Mitchell Victor
- was a Mormon missionary in Canada in the 1980s; allegedly sexually abused a 12-year-old boy while on his mission; an LDS stake president and a mission president (David Sorensen) allegedly covered up abuse allegations; Sorensen later became an LDS general authority.
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- Criminal: Police investigation, Unknown result,
- Civil: No civil case,
- Alleged coverup
Allen B Washburn
- was a Mormon church member in Utah; accused of sexual abuse.
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- Criminal: Unknown result,
- Civil: No civil case,
Ryan Dee Whitaker
- was an LDS church member and divorce lawyer in Vancouver, Washington; charged with sexually abusing a 9-year-old girl in his Sunday School class during church meetings; convicted in 2013 and sentenced to prison; registered sex offender.
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- Criminal: Convicted, Prison,
Edwin Jay Wilcox
- was a Mormon church member in Idaho; ran a therapy center for "handicapped people" (as described in 1989 news article); convicted of child sexual abuse in 1988 and sentenced to up to 20 years in prison.
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- Criminal: Convicted, Prison, Registered sex offender,
Keith G Williams
- was a Mormon church member; accused of sexual abuse; allegedly molested a boy for three years; Mormon leaders allegedly failed to report the abuse to police, but approved Williams for an LDS temple wedding.
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- Criminal: Convicted, Pleaded guilty,
- Alleged coverup
LaVar Madsen Withers
- was a Mormon church member and physician in Rexburg, Idaho; was accused of sexual abuse by at least 133 women and children (some as young as 13 years old) over a period of 30 years or more; admitted to sexual abuse; found guilty of misdemeanor battery; sentenced to 30 to 60 days in jail and two years probation; the Mormon church placed him on probation and took his temple recommend; died in 2005.
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- Criminal: Convicted,
- Civil: No civil case,
- Alleged coverup
Ruth Zurcher Worthen
- was a Mormon church member in Hyde Park, Cache County, Utah; accused of child sexual abuse by one adult in a 2019 civil lawsuit and in 2023 by four adults (one of whom was the 2019 plaintiff); arrested and charged in June 2024 with numerous felonies related to child sexual abuse.
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- Criminal: Ongoing,
- Civil: Dismissed with prejudice,
Harvey Dee Wright
- was an LDS church member and Scout leader in Flagstaff, AZ; in 1988 pleaded guilty to "Attempted Sexual Abuse/Dangerous Crimes Against Children" and received 90 days in jail and 4 years probation; placed on the BSA Confidential Files.
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- Criminal: Convicted,
Orson Davis Wright
- was a Mormon mission president in Sydney, Australia from 1978 to 1980; accused of grooming some of the sister missionaries in his care to be his polygamous wives; removed early from his mission assignment; LDS church leaders in Salt Lake City, Utah allegedly covered up the reasons for Wright's removal.
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- Criminal: Never charged, Not convicted,
- Civil: No civil case,
- Alleged coverup
Mitchell Blake Young
- was an LDS missionary in Canada; in 1980, sent home after allegedly molesting children; convicted in Arizona (1985) and Utah (1988) of child sexual abuse; in 1993, sentenced in Utah to 15 years in prison for molesting a child for five years; a 2002 lawsuit against the LDS church accused Mormon leaders of providing a safe harbor for him; as of 2024, lives in Ogden, Utah; registered sex offender.
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- Criminal: Convicted,
- Civil: Lawsuit v. LDS church, Unknown result,
- Alleged coverup
Jimmy D Young
- was a Mormon church member and scout volunteer; arrested for sexually abusing a scout in his troop.
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- Criminal: Admitted guilt, Unknown result,

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