UTAH
Deseret News
Geoff Liesik, Deseret News
Published: Wednesday, Feb. 8 2012
DUCHESNE — A judge has ordered an LDS Church bishop to stand trial on charges of witness tampering and failure to report abuse.
But the defense attorney for Bishop Gordon Moon called the judge’s order “a far cry from a ringing endorsement of the prosecution’s case.”
“I think anyone who reads the bindover order can see that,” attorney David Leavitt said Wednesday. “From our perspective, the bindover was something we expected because the burden of proof is so low.”
Moon, 43, is accused of failing to notify police about a 17-year-old girl’s disclosure that she had been sexually abused by a teenage relative. The bishop also told the girl not to seek a protective order against the teenage boy and the boy’s mother when the girl came to him for counsel, according to Duchesne County prosecutors.
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