Conviction Christian institutions & contexts Latter-day Saint movements Menifee, California, USA · 2013

LDS bishop Todd Michael Edwards: guilty plea for molesting teenage girls in his congregation

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Convicted

Authority role

bishop, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Menifee, California ward

Organization

The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Menifee, California ward

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Edwards held his victims' trust as their LDS bishop, the pastoral office responsible for spiritual counseling and discipline within the ward; his access to the second victim in particular arose from that office, held at the time of the offense.

Pastoral or clerical authority
Institutional obedience or isolation

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Proceedings

2013-12-12 · guilty plea and sentence

Riverside County Superior Court, California. Todd Michael Edwards was convicted via guilty plea to two felony counts of sexual battery and sexual penetration with a foreign object, for abusing two teenage girls in his congregation in 2006 and 2012. He was sentenced to two concurrent three-year prison terms and, at sentencing, classified by the court as a violent sexual predator.

Documented coercion mechanisms

bishop's pastoral and disciplinary authority over ward members
one-on-one pastoral-counseling access to teenage congregants

Cited record

Sources

local news archived sentencing report John Asbury, 'Mormon Bishop Sentenced to Three Years for Sex Abuse', The Press-Enterprise (12 Dec. 2013), archived via bishop-accountability.org.: Reports the guilty plea, the two concurrent three-year sentences, and the classification of Edwards as a violent sexual predator at sentencing.
advocacy database case summary FLOODLIT, 'Todd Mitchell Edwards Mormon sex abuse case' (database entry).: Case-tracking entry corroborating Edwards's bishop role, the 2006 and 2012 offense dates, and the 2013 conviction and sentence.

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Source and tier basis: https://www.bishop-accountability.org/news2013/11_12/2013_12_12_Asbury_MormonBishop.htm Corpus classification: local-news-archived; evidentiary role: sentencing-report. SHA-256 af951b6992d6ff4143a2b42a6cd4155fa8c1576b9a40b6db4d7b4702249b2626
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Source and tier basis: https://floodlit.org/a/a106/ Corpus classification: advocacy-database; evidentiary role: case-summary. SHA-256 a3bf37c40697d2c766455dd163f6e1c5cda5c6c3f2f86d01cc3aee613fc16107
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