UTAH
Daily Herald

Jim Dalrymple – Daily Herald | Posted: Monday, March 12, 2012

PROVO — LDS bishop Amado Rojas stood silently beside his attorney Monday morning, then walked out only minutes later with a newly minted deal resolving allegations that he failed to report sexual abuse at a church activity.

Rojas, 32, was charged in September with failure to report child abuse, a class B misdemeanor, but Monday accepted a plea in abeyance agreement with prosecutors. The agreement requires Rojas to obey all laws for six months, after which he can file a motion to have his charge dismissed.

Rojas’s charge stems from allegations that a man sexually abused a 13-year-old girl at a church party in August. After a water fight at the party, the girl testified during a preliminary hearing, the man grabbed and groped her.

According to a police report, the girl then told Rojas…