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Family Of 8 Found Dead In Utah Home In Apparent Murder-Suicide

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An entire family in a small Utah town was found dead in their home Wednesday in a horrific apparent murder-suicide.

Officials in the small town of Enoch, Utah, said that the husband shot his wife, mother-in-law, and the couple’s five children, before turning the gun on himself. The family was found late Wednesday afternoon after police went to conduct a welfare check on the wife. According to news reports, the wife had served divorce papers to the husband last week.

According to Dotson, the wife had an appointment, which she missed. The person with whom she had the appointment called police to do a welfare check. “A few hours after that welfare check, a call came in and Tausha (the wife) was not located, a missing persons report was requested and was received by the Cedar City Police Department,” Dotson said. That report was then passed on to police in Enoch, “at which point the welfare check to locate Tausha became an effort to locate the entire family,” Dotson added.

City officials said no one had heard reports of gunshots or suspicious activity, but Enoch Mayor Geoffrey Chesnut, who was neighbors with the family, noted that the homes are on large lots, making it difficult to hear anything. “They’re half-acre lots, big homes on half-acre lots,” he said. “You don’t hear a lot coming from your neighbor’s homes.” (Read more from “Family of 8 Found Dead in Utah Home in Apparent Murder-Suicide” HERE)

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Senator Proposes Bill That Would Enact Nationwide Pornography Ban

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Utah’s senior senator, having survived a reelection challenge from an independent candidate backed by state Democrats, is launching a two-pronged assault on companies that host pornography on their websites.

Mike Lee unveiled the twin pieces of legislation this past week, stating an intent to protect children online. One bill, dubbed “Shielding Children’s Retinas from Egregious Exposure on the Net (SCREEN)”, is clearly aimed at doing so, and would require such websites to ask users to provide their age before viewing content.

But a second piece of legislation introduced by the senator on the same day takes a much broader cudgel against pornographic content, and would remove a key protection that sexually explicit content currently enjoys in the United States.

As of right now, the right of Americans and others to share such content across state lines in the US (including online) is protected by the so-called “Miller Test”, a three-step test outlined by the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court in a 1973 ruling which determines when protected sexual content crosses the line into the unprotected realm of “obscenity”. Mr Lee’s legislation would eliminate one of those steps, specifically the one defining “obscenity” as content that “depicts or describes” sex “in a patently offensive way”.

Removing that language would mean that all sexual content, offensive or not, would fall into the unprotected definition of obscene content, which is prohibited from being transmitted across state lines, as well as between individuals in certain states. (Read more from “Senator Proposes Bill That Would Enact Nationwide Pornography Ban” HERE)

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Utah Psychologist Faces Six New Charges Linked to ‘Ritualistic Child Sex Abuse’

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A former Utah psychologist accused of “ritualistic sex abuse” involving children faces six new felony charges after a second adult victim came forward with testimony decades after the alleged assaults occurred.

On Oct. 17, David Lee Hamblin, 68, pleaded not guilty in a district court in Sanpete County, Utah, to six additional counts of aggravated child sex abuse stemming from an investigation by members of the Utah County Sheriff’s Office’s (UCSO) special victims unit.

Detectives arrested Hamblin in late September on seven other child sexual abuse-related charges from a separate case.

Those charges include first-degree felony rape of a child, aggravated abuse of a child, and lewdness involving a child.

The Utah County Sheriff’s Office in Spanish Fork is investigating reports of “ritualistic child sexual abuse” in three counties spanning the years 1990 to 2010. More than 150 victims and witnesses have come forward since April 2021. (Read more from “Utah Psychologist Faces Six New Charges Linked to ‘Ritualistic Child Sex Abuse’” HERE)

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State Lawmaker Advised Mormon Bishop Against Reporting Church Member Who Sexually Abused Daughters, Lawsuit Filings Say

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A Utah state representative told a Mormon bishop not to report a church member’s sexual abuse, advice that led to seven years of rape and abuse committed by the church member against his own daughters, according to new lawsuit documents.

State Rep. Merrill Nelson (R-UT), a prominent lawyer for the Mormon church, allegedly answered the first call from a help line when Bishop John Herrod told him that Arizona church member Paul Adams had admitted to sexually abusing two of his daughters. For more than two years, Nelson communicated with Herrod and another bishop who knew about the abuse allegations, according to call records, the Associated Press reported.

Nelson told Herrod “that he could be sued if he reported, and the instruction by counsel not to report Paul [Adams] to the authorities was the law in Arizona and had nothing to do with Church doctrine,” according to the plaintiff’s filings. However, as the AP reported, Arizona law allows blanket immunity for those who report child sexual abuse or neglect.

The sex abuser’s two daughters and one of his sons are trying to gain access to records from the Mormon church, but the church has refused them based on confidentiality. After a county judge ruled in the victims’ favor to see the records, the Mormon church took the case to the Court of Appeals.

According to the new records, Nelson talked with Herrod and one other Mormon bishop from November 2011 to February 2014 after Adams had been excommunicated from the church. Roger Van Komen, manager of the church’s southeast region family services department, said in a deposition that the lawmaker discussed Adams’ abuse with Herrod in those communications. (Read more from “State Lawmaker Advised Mormon Bishop Against Reporting Church Member Who Sexually Abused Daughters, Lawsuit Filings Say” HERE)

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Would-Be Gas Thief Lights Himself on Fire

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A would-be gas thief was forced to beat a heated retreat after he caught fire while trying to steal from a parked truck in Salt Lake City, Utah.

The thief was attempting to siphon gas from a box truck parked outside Summit Fire and Protection in Salt Lake City when he caught fire and was forced to run away from the truck, local NBC affiliate KSL-TV reported. The incident occurred in broad daylight Saturday morning.

Surveillance video from the incident shows a man underneath the truck with a heavy-duty pickup truck alongside, its passenger door ajar. Suddenly, the would-be thief’s shirt catches fire. He slides out from underneath the truck, runs across the parking lot, and rolls on the asphalt in an attempt to put out the fire. The suspect’s accomplice then scoops him up and they drive off.

“The reason why he’s fleeing is that, if there were more gas in it than a gallon, this thing would have absolutely turned into a bomb,” Travis Mills, branch manager of Summit, told KSL. “It’s sad because times are tough for a lot of people, but it’s not worth the $5 that he would have saved for the injury that the guy sustained.”

The thief caught fire because he was trying to drill into the gas tank. “The guy tried to siphon gas out of it and he wasn’t getting the siphon to work,” Mills said. “So he decided to drill the gas tank, and that’s when he caught on fire.” (Read more from “Would-Be Gas Thief Lights Himself on Fire” HERE)

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Tucker Carlson Rails Against Republican Governor for Sharing His Pronouns: ‘What a Creepy Guy’ (VIDEO)

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Tucker Carlson shredded Gov. Spencer Cox (R-UT) for sharing his pronouns with a child during a segment where he claimed Utah’s governor does not represent the voters.

The Fox News host put the state’s officials under the microscope. He spent several minutes blistering elected officials in what was more or less a bawling out of Republican voters there. . .

Carlson then aired video from a virtual town hall in which Cox shared his gender pronouns with a high school student.

“Well, thank you so much Debbie for that, that question,” Cox said in the clip. “My preferred pronouns are he him, and his. So thank you for sharing yours with me.”

“What a creepy guy,” he said. “Spencer Cox identifies as a male, at least to some limited extent. Cox could’ve cleared up that mystery a lot more quickly simply by declaring, ‘I’m a man.’ Instead, he went full hostage video.” (Read more from “Tucker Carlson Rails Against Republican Governor for Sharing His Pronouns: ‘What a Creepy Guy’” HERE)

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Leftist Newspaper Runs Cartoon Comparing Black Republican Congressman to the KKK

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The Salt Lake Tribune sparked outrage after it ran an editorial cartoon comparing Republican Utah Rep. Burgess Owens to a member of the Klu Klux Klan (KKK).

The cartoon shows Owens pointing toward the southern border with the caption, “They are coming to your neighborhoods!” On the right side of the cartoon, a member of the KKK holds a torch and points toward Owens, saying, “They are coming to your neighborhoods!” . . .

“I was raised int he 1960’s Deep South during a time when the KKK terrorized my neighborhood and the color of my skin literally dictated where I went to school. It was a time when racism was defined by arrogance and demeaning the character of any person of color,” Owens told the Caller.

“They can try to hide behind a newspaper and fake ‘wokeness,’ but this is it,” he continued. “Don’t let the racist and tone deaf Salt Lake Tribune cast a bad light on our great state of inclusion. It does not represent the people of Utah or my constituents in District 4.”

The Utah Delegation issued a joint statement condemning the graphic as “repugnant.” (Read more from “Leftist Newspaper Runs Cartoon Comparing Black Republican Congressman to the KKK” HERE)

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This is the 17th State To Abolish Concealed Carry Permit Requirement

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Utah Gov. Spencer Cox (R) signed legislation Friday to abolish the requirement that law-abiding citizens acquire a concealed carry permit in order to carry a concealed handgun for self-defense.

The NRA-ILA reports that Cox signed House Bill 60 into law. They noted that HB60 allows “a law-abiding adult to carry a concealed firearm in the State of Utah, without first needing to obtain government permission.” . . .

On March 12, 2019, Breitbart News reported those 16 states as Alaska, Arizona, Arkansas, Idaho, Kansas, Kentucky, Maine, Mississippi, Missouri, New Hampshire, North Dakota, Oklahoma, South Dakota, Vermont, West Virginia, and Wyoming. (Read more from “Utah Becomes 17th State To Abolish Concealed Carry Permit Requirement” HERE)

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Mystery: Monolith Found in Utah Suddenly Vanishes

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A tall, silver, shining metal monolith discovered in the desert in southeastern Utah — which prompted theories of alien placement and drew determined hikers to its secret location — has now disappeared, the state’s Bureau of Land Management said Saturday.

The monolith was removed by an “unknown party” sometime Friday night, the agency said in a Facebook post.

“We have received credible reports that the illegally installed structure, referred to as the ‘monolith,’ has been removed” from BLM public lands, the post said.

“The BLM did not remove the structure, which is considered private property.”

The monolith was first discovered November 18 by officers from the Utah Department of Public Safety’s Aero Bureau. (Read more from “Mystery: Monolith Found in Utah Suddenly Vanishes” HERE)

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WATCH: Trooper Stops ‘Impaired Driver’ Who Turns out to Be a 5-Year-Old on His Way to Buy a Lamborghini

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When Utah Highway Patrol Trooper Rick Morgan pulled over a swerving vehicle near Ogden Monday afternoon, he expected to find an impaired driver at the wheel — not a 5-year-old boy on his way to buy a Lamborghini.

Morgan said the boy, Adrian, didn’t initially respond to lights but pulled over immediately as soon as he hit the siren. He was heading southbound on Interstate 15, heading to California, where his sister lives.

“I approached the vehicle and I was expecting to find somebody who needed an ambulance or paramedics,” Morgan said, adding that when the window came down who he actually found was “a very underaged driver who was behind the wheel.”

“Where did you come from? How did you get this car?” a baffled Morgan is heard saying to Adrian in dashcam video of the incident. . .

KUTV-TV reported that Adrian grabbed the keys to the family’s Dodge Journey and drove the care two miles through downtown Ogden and then onto Interstate 15 while his sister Sidney Estrada took a nap. She told the outlet that she was watching her little brother while their parents were at work.

(Read more from “WATCH: Trooper Stops ‘Impaired Driver’ Who Turns out to Be a 5-Year-Old on His Way to Buy a Lamborghini” HERE)

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