SALT LAKE CITY (UT)
The Associated Press
June 9, 2018
By Brady McCombs
A third man has been charged with child sexual abuse in connection with a Utah doomsday group that believed in polygamy and took child brides.
Robert Shane Roe, 34, of Castro, California, met the two founders of the group in a Facebook discussion group last year and traveled out to Utah where he was given a “bride” — a 5-year-old girl related to one of the men, prosecutor Kevin Daniels said.
Investigators knew previously that Roe was involved in the group, but the girl only recently revealed what happened when she was alone with him, said Daniels, the Sanpete County Attorney in central Utah.
Roe was charged Thursday with sodomy of a child for the alleged activity in August 2017. No attorney is listed in court documents for Roe.
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