Posted on 04/16/2017 12:09:03 PM PDT by Utah Binger
Complaints are mounting against a Utah County judge who earlier this week praised a former Mormon bishop before sending him to prison for sexually abusing two women.
Fourth District Judge Thomas Low on Wednesday became emotional as he handed down a prison sentence to Keith Robert Vallejo.
Julia Kirby — who was 19 when Vallejo, her brother-in-law, abused her — told The Tribune after the sentencing that she was shocked by the judge's words to her abuser. Now, she plans to file a judicial complaint against him.
And she's not the only one.
"He completely disregarded her," Lawrence said. "He did something that we see happening over and over from position in authority dealing with these kind of cases: Making the perpetrator into the victim, showing sympathy and praise for the perpetrator and trying to make him into the victim. It's completely inappropriate."
Criticism of Low initially began in March, after The Tribune published a story about Low's decision to allow Vallejo to remain free on bail pending sentencing and return home to his wife and eight children — even after the jury handed down the guilty verdicts at the February trial. Kirby said last month that she felt the decision indicated that Low did not believe that she and the other woman had been abused.
Ryan McBride, the prosecutor on the case, said Low's comments were inappropriate and said it may have come in response to more than 50 character letters about Vallejo, most of them detailing the good things he has done. The defendant's brother spoke at the hearing and compared Vallejo to Jesus.
The judge also became emotional Wednesday as he addressed Kirby directly, telling her that she was "a survivor."
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Hey!
I’ve a LOT of downed trees that need cutting.
I ain’t got TIME for this!!
(But; like a moth to a flame...)
I’m sure you must have me confused with someone else.
Back when Romney was in play here; a LOT of Mormon/Christian interaction was taking place on FR.
It would be easy to mis-remember someone who was posting.
He is the penultimate enemy of mormonism on FR.
Here's why:
Romans 3:10-11
As it is written, There is none righteous, no, not one:
There is none that understandeth, there is none that seeketh after God.
Why would Judge Low become so supportive of a rapist? Is it because he is himself a rapist, at least in his heart?
This was several years ago. When I related the experience
I’d had with the Mormon missionaries and the book (it
wasn’t the book of Mormon), someone with the name “Elsie”
seemed to be doubtful that the “gods” & eternally pregnant
“goddesses” were a Mormon teaching. This may have been
another “Elsie” going way back. I’ve been on FR a long time.
I know of no other screenname with elsie in it (is there a LIST of screen names of FR?) so I am probably guilty.
Learning stuff about Mormonism has taken a long time, and it could have been BEFORE I found out the information.
Speaking of book; I wonder why the SCRIPTUREs that most of the LDS theology comes from is NOT the BoM but the Doctrines and Covenants.
I wonder why they never seem to talk about it publicly or hand out samples of it?
I don’t know if there’s a list of screen names on FR.
If a person tries to learn about the various cults, our
lives aren’t long enough to ever figure out all of them.
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