David Hamblin, 68, was charged Thursday with multiple counts of sodomy of a child, rape of a child, aggravated sexual abuse of a child and lewdness involving a child.
The investigation shifted the focus of the Utah County Attorney’s race earlier this year, after David Leavitt publicly tied himself to the case.
In arrest documents, law enforcement authorities say that a woman came forward in April alleging she was repeatedly sexually assaulted by Hamblin, who was her neighbor, in the mid-1980s. She described to police an instance when she and two other children were in the man’s basement and were forced to perform a sex act “while he critiqued and criticized their abilities.” She estimated she was 6 or 7 years old at that time.
The Utah County Sheriff’s Office announced a month after the woman made these statements that its investigators were looking into “ritualistic sex abuse” allegations that date back to the decades between 1990 and 2010 and span Utah, Juab and Sanpete counties. That report, which The Tribune obtained through a public records request, includes an unverified witness statement from an alleged victim who accused Hamblin and more than a dozen others, including Leavitt, of taking part in a ritualistic child abuse, murder and cannibalism cult that she said she witnessed as a child.
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