OGDEN (UT)
Standard-Examiner
Thursday, August 25, 2005
By Loretta Park
Standard-Examiner Davis Bureau
OGDEN -- Several jurors wiped away tears as the court clerk read four guilty verdicts Wednesday, bringing to an end an eight-month case against Aaron Marcos Montoya, a former LDS Primary teacher.
Montoya, 33, of Syracuse, was visibly shaken as bailiffs took him into custody following the verdicts that took four men and four women three hours to reach Wednesday at Ogden's 2nd District Court.
Montoya was charged with four counts of first-degree felony aggravated sexual abuse of a child. Three girls took the stand during the two days of testimony and said Montoya inappropriately touched them while they prayed or colored pictures in 2004 in a Syracuse Primary class for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
"This is certainly a victory. It got a serial pedophile off the streets," the father of one of the girls said after the hearing.