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Deseret News
CENTERVILLE — A former LDS Church employee and leader was charged Friday with sexually abusing two children.
Timothy William Bothell, 43, was arrested Thursday and is facing two first-degree felony counts of aggravated sexual abuse of a child and four counts of lewdness involving a child, a class A misdemeanor.
The sex abuse charges are aggravated in nature because Bothell “holds a position of trust in relationship to the victims,” said Centerville Assistant Police Chief Paul Child. Bothell was serving as a member of a stake high council in Centerville at the time of his arrest, he said.
Police said Bothell, 43, last week was confronted by and admitted to his wife that he had inappropriate sexual contact with at least one child of a family friend. Bothell later contacted Child Protective Services, which then involved police.
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