DUCHESNE (UT)
KSL
By Geoff Liesik
DUCHESNE — If there’s anything worse than a driver’s license photo, it’s a mugshot.
The Internet is filled with the jailhouse images of the famous, the infamous and even the average Joe.
But the defense attorney for an LDS Church bishop accused of failing to report a teenage girl’s disclosure of sexual abuse is trying to keep his client from suffering a similar fate.
Bishop Gordon Moon, 43, of Duchesne, is charged in 8th District Court with witness tampering, a third-degree felony, and failure to report abuse, a class B misdemeanor.
Prosecutors allege that Moon told a teenage girl not to seek a protective order after she told him she’d been sexually abused by a teenage relative. He’s also accused of failing to notify police of the girl’s disclosure, as required by state law.
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