Conviction Christian institutions & contexts Latter-day Saint movements West Bountiful, UT, USA · 2023

Carl Matthew Johnson (LDS bishop, ex-mayor): 9-to-life, child sexual abuse

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Evidence status

Convicted

Authority role

LDS bishop

Organization

Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints

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The cited record identifies religious office and access to a minor as the material spiritual doctrine, practice, authority, or pretext connected to the documented harm. The relevant authority role is LDS bishop.

Pastoral or clerical authority

Evidence structure

Documented coercion mechanisms

religious office
access to a minor

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KUER 90.1 (2023) 'Former West Bountiful mayor, LDS Church bishop gets prison for child sex abuse', KUER (NPR Utah), 2 March. Available at: kuer.org (Accessed: 15 July 2026).: A standing conviction of an LDS bishop: Carl Matthew Johnson, a former mayor and bishop, 'pleaded guilty in January to four counts of sexual abuse of a child in a plea deal that resulted in several other charges being dismissed. The judge gave him the maximum sentence of nine years to life for three first degree felonies and one to 15 years for a second degree felony count, all to run consecutively.'

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Source and tier basis: https://www.kuer.org/race-religion-social-justice/2023-03-02/former-west-bountiful-mayor-lds-church-bishop-gets-prison-for-child-sex-abuse Legacy citation preserved without a normalized source tier or evidentiary-role code. SHA-256 949c11fa321d03fe0ebfc0e0306b25864d25345f4c2cc271de488f7b8d40e953
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