UTAH
Standard-Examiner
STANDARD-EXAMINER EDITORIAL BOARD
After a Utah jury found a former Mormon bishop guilty of rape and 10 counts of forcible sexual abuse, the judge called him a good man.
An “extraordinarily good man.”
A “great” man.
No, your honor. He isn’t.
He’s a rapist. A sexual predator. A criminal.
He abused two women.
And you just held him up as a model of moral conduct.
No wonder Utah finds it so difficult to address the horror of sexual violence.
Julia Kirby lived at Keith Robert Vallejo’s house when she attended Brigham Young University in 2013. She’s related to the former LDS bishop.
Kirby, now 23, said Vallejo repeatedly groped her. Another woman also said she was abused at Vallejos’ home in 2014, when she was 17. After a Provo jury convicted Vallejos in late March, Judge Thomas Low allowed him to remain free on bail until his April 12 sentencing.
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