SALT LAKE CITY (UT)
Deseret News
July 9, 2020
By Dennis Romboy
A former Latter-day Saint bishop admitted in federal court Thursday to having child pornography on his cellphone.
Timothy James Hallows, 62, of Kaysville, pleaded guilty to possession of child pornography in an agreement with federal prosecutors. He admitted to having images of prepubescent children being sexually assaulted by adults on his cellphone and sending them to a woman in the Philippines last November.
Hallows faces up to 20 years in prison. A sentencing hearing has not been scheduled.
Hallows was bishop of the Wellington Ward in the Kaysville Utah Stake of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints when he was arrested in October and later charged with eight counts of sexual exploitation of a minor in 2nd District Court in Davis County.
The state charges were dismissed June 29 after the U.S. Attorney’s Office and the Davis County Attorney’s Office decided to pursue the case in federal court.
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