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By Hallie Golden – Associated Press | Posted Apr 14th, 2017
SALT LAKE CITY — A Provo judge is facing a deluge of complaints after calling a former LDS bishop convicted of rape an “extraordinary, good man” who did something wrong, a judicial oversight organization said Friday.
The criticism of Judge Thomas Low began when he let Keith Robert Vallejo out of custody after a jury found him guilty of 10 counts of forcible sexual abuse and one count of object rape, said Jennifer Yim, executive director of the Utah Judicial Performance Evaluation Commission.
Then at sentencing earlier this week, Low said: “The court has no doubt that Mr. Vallejo is an extraordinary, good man. But great men sometimes do bad things.”
Yim said 75 complaints made by a combination of emails, voicemails and Facebook messages arrived Thursday and Friday.
The volume is “pretty rare,” Yim said. Many wrote they were survivors of sexual assault who felt re-victimized by the judge’s comments.
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