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Ex-BYU student pleads guilty in attack on woman he was assigned to home teach
Deseret News ^ | July 27, 2010

Posted on 07/28/2010 7:29:14 AM PDT by Colofornian

Edited on 07/30/2010 3:24:48 AM PDT by Admin Moderator. [history]

PROVO — The former BYU student accused of attacking a woman with a stun gun pleaded guilty Tuesday to a lessened degree of aggravated assault.

Stetson Geo Hallam, 20, had been charged with aggravated kidnapping, a first-degree felony, following an April 6 incident that he claimed was an April Fool's joke, according to a police affidavit filed in 4th District Court.

Charges say Hallam, the victim's home teacher in their LDS Church ward, pressured the 19-year-old woman to meet him so he could "give her a gift."

The woman told police Hallam waited outside her Provo apartment for her to return, then asked her to go to a basement laundry room as part of a scavenger hunt.

Once in the room, Hallam attacked her with a Taser-like weapon, pinned her to the ground and tried to handcuff her, the affidavit states. Despite the electric shock, the woman began screaming and fighting back, and at one point bit Hallam's finger, according to court documents. She later told police she thought Hallam was trying to rape her.

After being bitten, Hallam released the woman, apologized, and said it was just an April Fool's joke, the affidavit states. Police found burn marks on the woman's arm from the weapon and a bite mark on Hallam's hand.

Hallam pleaded guilty to aggravated assault and obstruction of justice, second-degree felonies. He is scheduled to be sentenced Sept. 9 and faces up to 15 years in prison.

— Lana Groves


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KEYWORDS: assault; byu; monomania
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To: svcw

Did they physically harm you? If so, you need to call the cops.


361 posted on 08/03/2010 4:49:49 PM PDT by Raider Sam (They're on our left, right, front, and back. They aint gettin away this time!)
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To: Elsie

Exactly, you made Mormon big and ism small. You are the group talking about the faults of individual Mormons, not their beliefs. You are a group that is focused on Mormons.


362 posted on 08/03/2010 4:53:23 PM PDT by Raider Sam (They're on our left, right, front, and back. They aint gettin away this time!)
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To: SZonian

No, I dont like this group smearing a religion by using the failings of its practitioners, then running away from their own argument, then turning everything that happens in Utah news into a Mormons are eeeevil story, then using the Religion Moderator to protect them from attacks, then saying that my argument is against their freedom of speech.

In a nutshell, I dont like cowards and I dont like people who twist logic.


363 posted on 08/03/2010 4:59:03 PM PDT by Raider Sam (They're on our left, right, front, and back. They aint gettin away this time!)
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To: Colofornian

Look at me, Im Colofornian. I can copy and paste and write really long responses without actually addressing anything anyone said. I can also make it ok to bad mouth one religion while at the same time make it verboten to bad mouth another, I must be related to Jesus or something :)


364 posted on 08/03/2010 5:01:34 PM PDT by Raider Sam (They're on our left, right, front, and back. They aint gettin away this time!)
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To: Raider Sam

They have done great harm to my family, that is why I am here.


365 posted on 08/03/2010 8:10:31 PM PDT by svcw (It's not the situation that matters, it's the attitude toward the situation that matters.)
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To: Raider Sam
then using the Religion Moderator to protect them from attacks,

Lol_Haha Pictures, Images and Photos

366 posted on 08/03/2010 8:16:57 PM PDT by svcw (It's not the situation that matters, it's the attitude toward the situation that matters.)
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To: Raider Sam
You are the group talking about the faults of individual Mormons, not their beliefs.

Seriously. Are you trying and failing to make a joke?

367 posted on 08/03/2010 8:20:28 PM PDT by svcw (It's not the situation that matters, it's the attitude toward the situation that matters.)
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To: Raider Sam
I never said physical, but my cousin is dead because of the lds.
368 posted on 08/03/2010 8:21:47 PM PDT by svcw (It's not the situation that matters, it's the attitude toward the situation that matters.)
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To: Raider Sam

I think the A&M Aggies are a cult, but I definitely dont think they are a religion.

I think Manchester soccer fans are a cult, but they are definitely not a religion.

Definitions of cult on the Web:

  • followers of an exclusive system of religious beliefs and practices
  • fad: an interest followed with exaggerated zeal; "he always follows the latest fads"; "it was all the rage that season"
  • followers of an unorthodox, extremist, or false religion or sect who often live outside of conventional society under the direction of a charismatic leader
  • a religion or sect that is generally considered to be unorthodox, extremist, or false; "it was a satanic cult"
    wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn
Well; you got definition #2, and I got all the rest. WHO fails?
 


 
youre jump from 2 to 3 is a massive lack in logic, therefore the rest of your point is meaningless.
 
HUH?
 
I must have MISSED that in LOGIC 101:
 

2. panaxanax  likes to use the word, CULT, a lot.

3. THERFORE, he(?) must consider us ANTI-MORMONism folks to be a RELIGION, though false.  (3 outta 4...)

 
 

369 posted on 08/03/2010 8:46:04 PM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: Raider Sam
You are a group that is focused on Mormons.

Sigh...

You are a group that is focused on MormonISM.

What part of...

Ex-BYU student pleads guilty ...

is SO hard to understand?

370 posted on 08/03/2010 8:49:55 PM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: Raider Sam
No, I dont like this group smearing a religion by using the failings of its practitioners

The 'religion' is SMEARED by it's own teachings. We don't need' ANY of it's practitioners to do anything!

371 posted on 08/03/2010 8:52:11 PM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: Raider Sam
In a nutshell, I dont like cowards and I dont like people who twist logic.

Or cops who busts yer balls, either, it seems...

372 posted on 08/03/2010 8:52:59 PM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: svcw

So in other words, it is all emotional and you brought it up to get an emotional response and sympathy.


373 posted on 08/03/2010 8:56:29 PM PDT by Raider Sam (They're on our left, right, front, and back. They aint gettin away this time!)
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To: svcw

It is kind of funny that your group is so afraid of confrontation they run to the Religion Moderator on a non Religion forum.


374 posted on 08/03/2010 8:58:05 PM PDT by Raider Sam (They're on our left, right, front, and back. They aint gettin away this time!)
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To: svcw

Nope, making an observation. Some guy in Utah a long time ago, some radio station cutting Sean, some ex-BYU student. All threads about people. Then you try and claim you want to talk about the religion. The evidence for your argument is lacking.


375 posted on 08/03/2010 9:00:38 PM PDT by Raider Sam (They're on our left, right, front, and back. They aint gettin away this time!)
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To: Elsie

You fail. 1st, panaxanax never attacked your religion (Wesleyan, I believe). So, you fail there. Maybe he considers you to be a cult in the 5th definition of Webster - great devotion to a person, idea, movement, or work. Maybe he believes you a cult of people devoted to an anti-Mormon movement. Your failure is in trying to know what his definition of cult is without asking him.

So yes, your logical jump fails.

Also, from Webster (not “Web definitions”), cult comes from the Latin cultus meaning care or adoration.


376 posted on 08/03/2010 9:07:16 PM PDT by Raider Sam (They're on our left, right, front, and back. They aint gettin away this time!)
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To: Elsie

Not sure what you mean by that. But yeah, if a cop punched me in the nether regions, I dont think I would like him very much.


377 posted on 08/03/2010 9:10:05 PM PDT by Raider Sam (They're on our left, right, front, and back. They aint gettin away this time!)
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To: Raider Sam
Not sure what you mean by that.

Your homepage.

Seems you have a bit of animus towards some of them in a certain location...

378 posted on 08/04/2010 4:28:13 AM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: Raider Sam; panaxanax
Your failure is in trying to know what his definition of cult is without asking him.

I don't believe that HE or YOU have asked ME for MY definition of it.

HE used CULT THREE times refering to us; so let's find OUT!

Hey Panaxanax; just WHAT did you mean by using CULT?

Your defender is guessing*, so we REALLY need some clarification here!


*Maybe he believes you a cult of people devoted to an anti-Mormon movement.

379 posted on 08/04/2010 4:32:53 AM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: Elsie

You’re having fun again, aren’t you...

;-)


380 posted on 08/04/2010 5:14:16 AM PDT by ejonesie22 (Christians: Stand for Christ or stand aside...)
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