Posted on 03/05/2015 4:25:11 PM PST by Colofornian
LEHI — Officers booked a man Wednesday afternoon after a 10-year-old girl disclosed the suspect had sexually abused her last summer.
During an interview at the Children’s Justice Center, the victim said she was swimming at a neighbor’s home in Lehi during the summer of 2014. During that time, the neighbor’s uncle, Jeff Hunt, came out and got in the pool with the victim and with her friends.
They started to play a game of “shark,” but during the game, Hunt, 42, reportedly made the victim grab and squeeze his crotch underwater. She also stated he had reached up and underneath her swimming suit. She told officers he was “feeling around.”
The victim reportedly said the actions made her feel very uncomfortable, and she described them as “abuse.”
The victim said she barely knew Hunt, except from around the neighborhood and The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints ward they attended.
Hunt was found Wednesday morning and arrested without incident. After he was read his rights, he invoked his Fifth Amendment rights and refused to speak to officers without an attorney present.
Based upon the information provided by the victim, Hunt was booked into the Utah County Jail on suspicion of two first-degree felony charges of aggravated sexual abuse of a child and two second-degree felony charges of sexual abuse of a child.
Why thank you!
If he wishes.
Now THIS is downright CREEPY!
What is the point to highlight that the perp is Mormon?
He could have just as easily been catholic, protestant, hindi, Jewish or Jehovah Witness or moslem.
What is so special to point out Mormon?
Before I respond, I need to ask you -- and would appreciate an answer since I'm taking the time to respond -- Have you EVER gone on any one of the dozens of FR threads about Catholic priests accused of sexual abuse (whether it be of "altar boys" or some other case) and asked the same question:
What is the point of those articles to highlight (& discuss) that the perp is a Catholic priest?
May I suggest a few dynamics I've noticed re: both these type of Catholic & lds sexual abuse threads?
1. Those who rush in to attack the posters of these threads tend to be religiously hypocritical in ONLY defending certain sects, or only attacking certain thread posters.
2. Without usual fail, I've noticed that those who tend to grill the thread posters in these kinds of threads NEVER say any word about the victims -- who, btw, are usually Lds & Catholic as well. IoW, they seem to be siding with the perp.
Now, given the preponderance of other threads involving other sexual perps, and some of the teacher-student sex threads...
...where the alleged perps are usually raked over the keyboard coals...
...(not always, especially by stupid comments of posters who want to "see" the educator pictures before "deciding" their "guilt" or "innocense")...
...I find it strange to see so many either by inference or directly have more negative things to say about the thread poster than about the perp!
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With those prelim comments out of the way, allow me to address the Q more directly:
Lds are less than 2% of the US population. (By comparison, Black Protestants were 9% of the electorate at the 2012 presidential election)
Iow, black protestants are roughly 4-to almost 5 x the size of Lds.
Now...imagine if we saw the links below expanded by 4-5 times -- say if the latter group mentioned above had its leaders, Boy Scout leaders, and other prominent lay people being arrested for sexual abuse?
What might the reaction be? Nationally?
Or, given that white Evangelicals were 23% of the 2012 electorate...putting them roughly over 11 and one half times the size of Mormons in this country ... what if the headlines below were about Evangelical leaders, Evangelical boy scout leaders, and other prominent Evangelical lay leaders?
Why, we'd have HUNDREDS and HUNDREDS of sexual abuse cases committed by Evangelical leaders & lay people over a mere 5-year span...and there'd be a massive media uproar across this nation!
But, because the Lds church is so small, they are largely waved with a "free pass" cause these patterns are largely ignored...
Just a few 2014 highlights (no in-depth research involved):
* Sex abuse lawsuit filed against Mormon church [allegations re: Lds missionary & cover-up]
* Former part-time BYU instructor charged with sexual abuse
Just a few 2013 highlights (no in-depth research involved):
* Ex-Mormon bishop pleads guilty in sexual assaults of two teens
* Lawsuit filed against church for coverup of sex abuse [Lds church accused of cover-up]
And then for just three years prior to that (2010-2012), see:
I know, from personal experience. I was almost arrested once on the word of some stranger who insisted he’d watched me key his truck. When I stopped crying, I pointed out that apparently he’d watched me key his truck from a vantage point that was impossible to see his truck (driver’s side) from, plus I was wearing different colors than he described, plus going to and from another direction, plus more inconsistencies.
Thankfully they took the cuffs off and let me go. I had recently become a widow and spent the next three days in my room. ugh. All on the word of some stranger, who insisted it was the woman who’d gotten out of “that car” Scared the you-know-what out of me.
Answer: No, never on a catholic thread. The reason being is that catholic clergy pedophile activity was prolific in the news, with very little of the same noticed by me by Mormons.
I see baptist clergy doing the same thing occasionally in the news here in the south but no one has ever called it out like you did Mormons before.
Why the infatuation with mormonism?
You must have skipped over reply #41.
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