So what is the Utah County Sheriff’s Office investigating? How is it connected to a bizarre twist in the election for the next Utah County attorney? This is what we know so far.
The investigation became central to the Utah County attorney race after incumbent David Leavitt alleged the sheriff’s probe was politically motivated to get him out of office.
So what is the sheriff’s office investigating? How is it connected to a bizarre twist in the election for the next Utah County attorney? “We had a victim come forward and disclose abuse of this nature,” Cannon said. “And so that’s what started our investigation. The case that David Leavitt spoke about is not the case we initially started investigating. It’s not the case that we became aware of in April of last year.”
Utah County Attorney David Leavitt becomes emotional talking about his wife, saying she had her character brought into question by “cheap political opportunists.” Leavitt held a press conference in Provo on Wednesday, June 1, 2022, where he called for Utah County Sheriff Mike Smith to resign, alleging his office is being used for “political purposes,” and says Sheriff Smith owes his wife an apology.
Utah County prosecutors dropped the charges against the therapist in 2014 — which was five years prior to Leavitt being elected county attorney. Bluth recalled coming out to his bishop — who he said referred him to a therapist who had a track record of “curing people of their homosexuality.” Brett Bluth speaks about his experience of alleged abuse by a Utah County therapist in the 1990s in Salt Lake City, Thursday, June 2, 2022.
In one alleged incident Bluth also described to police, the therapist told him that his childhood sexual abusers had put him in a big black bag and tied it off, leaving him there until he almost suffocated, he said. Afterward, Bluth said, “He prayed over his semen that it would undo the unrighteous semen that had been placed inside my body as a kid. And I was disgusted.”
Bluth said he confronted the therapist about the sexual contact that had happened during treatment, he said, and told the man that if the therapist didn’t report himself to state regulators, he would.The therapist did turn himself into regulators.
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