This was in today's Salt Lake Tribune
Teens accused of pressuring girls into nude photo shoots
Monticello High School
By Nate Carlisle The Salt Lake TribuneArticle Last Updated:12/07/2006 01:20:26 AM MST
Boys at Monticello High School have allegedly been pressuring girls to pose nude and then were sharing the photographs with others. More than 30 girls may have been victims in what San Juan County Sheriff Mike Lacy is calling a child pornography case. Lacy said his office has completed its probe and referred its findings to the Utah Attorney General's Office for possible criminal charges. As many as eight boys are believed to be involved, though four appear to have been the biggest culprits, Lacy said. Some of those teenagers have turned 18 and could face charges as adults. "Some of this has been going on for two or three years," Lacy said. "By the time we got the report, it just kind of snowballed." In some instances, boys drove girls into the mountains near Monticello. The boys told the girls that if they wanted a ride down, they needed to bare themselves for the camera, authorities said. Photographs were taken with cell phones and exchanged through cell communication and by computer, Lacy said. The Utah Internet Crimes Against Children Task Force, based in the Attorney General's Office, participated in the investigation. John Soltis, the attorney general's office prosecutor assigned to the case, said he is reviewing the evidence but declined further
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comment. San Juan School District Superintendent Doug Wright said investigators came to Monticello High School at the start of the school year to interview students. The district told the detectives that administrators must be present in the interviews so the investigators elected to speak to students off campus, Wright said. Wright said the district has no knowledge of any of the incidents occurring at school, and no students have been disciplined.
Add that to the Julia & Hardy Redd story that was directly above this one...
Daughter: Mom and Dad stole me away
By Nate Carlisle The Salt Lake TribuneArticle Last Updated:12/07/2006 01:20:31 AM MST
Julianna Myers and her husband, Perry, watch her parents,... (Douglas C. Pizac/The Associated Press)
PROVO - When Julianna Myers realized her parents weren't taking her to Provo to be married, she asked what was happening. Myers' mother, the 21-year-old testified Wednesday, turned, looked at her and asked: "What is the Fourth Commandment?" The commandment she was referring to from the Ten Commandments states: "Honor thy father and thy mother." In a preliminary hearing Wednesday, Myers testified her parents said her plans to marry Perry Myers dishonored them. Julia Redd and Lemuel Redd are each charged with one count of second-degree felony kidnapping, a charge that 4th District Judge James Taylor ordered them to be tried on. The day before she was to be wed in the Provo LDS temple, Myers testified, her parents drove her to Colorado then returned her to Provo on her wedding day after she agreed not to contact her fiance. At one point, Myers said, her parents used force to get her into their van. "They came up with these ideas [the fiance] was evil because he didn't get me a diamond," Myers testified. Myers, who eventually married Perry Myers and calls herself by her husband's last name, said she was supposed to marry Aug. 5, but the Redds on numerous occasions tried to dissuade her from marrying. The parents were upset her fiance did not buy her a diamond ring for her engagement and sent her letters calling
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the young man "evil and abusive," Myers said. On Aug. 4, the Redds picked her up at her condo in Provo. Myers testified the parents were to drive her to Orem to buy religious garments for her wedding. The family's van reached Interstate 15, but instead of turning north to go to Orem, Myers said, the van turned south. At first Myers thought her parents were taking her on a drive to talk to her about the wedding. "The moment that we turned south, [my father] asked me if I was willing to go to the [LDS] temple without them," Myers testified. "I said I didn't want to but I would." A short time later, Myers realized that they were not returning to Provo. Myers inquired what was happening and elicited the Ten Commandments question. At Salina, the trio stopped at a rest stop. Myers said her mother put her arm around her and escorted her to the restroom. When Myers came out of the restroom, she told her parents she wasn't getting back in the van. The Redds responded by grabbing her wrists, with Julia Redd grabbing her hair and forcing Myers to the van, the daughter testified. The trio wrestled until Myers was on the van's hood, she said. During the struggle, Julia Redd took Myers' gold engagement band, the daughter testified. Myers eventually agreed to get in the van "because I was too scared to know what they would do to me." The Redds had reserved a motel room in Grand Junction, Colo., and the trio drove there. Myers, a Brigham Young University student who is due to give birth in late May, appeared choked up during much of her testimony. At one point, Utah County Attorney Kay Bryson had to ask her to talk slower. After sleeping in Grand Junction, she awoke and went to breakfast with her parents, Myers testified. There she saw a calendar with the date Aug. 5, her wedding date, and began to cry, she said. After breakfast, the Redds said they would return to Provo if Myers agreed not to contact her fiance, she testified. The threesome returned to Provo that day, and when they arrived at her condo, her fiance was there. Under questioning from defense attorney Dean Zabriskie on Wednesday, Myers acknowledged she willingly entered her parents van in Provo and did not call out for help in Salina or in Grand Junction. The hearing's only other witness was Provo police Detective Mark Crosby, who testified the Redds admitted to grabbing Myers wrists and hair in Salina. To news reporters after the hearing, Defense attorney Rhome Zabriskie left open the possibility the Redds could accept a plea bargain. Myers said before her engagement she had an "on and off" relationship with her parents. Her mother is the reason one of her sisters has never married, Myers said, and she wants her mother to receive mental health assistance.
ncarlisle@sltrib.comAnd then, there was the story about the Lewis' right next to that, but I already posted on on that so I won't again. WOW--we're soo special down here!!!
Things here are going ok. I'm totally not ready for Christmas at all. Don't know if I will be this year, but not too sure I care. There is one gift under the tree, one for me from Jami. I really need to get some of the kids stuff wrapped and under there. I wonder if I'll be able to keep Peyton from opening everything? Well, back to work
Love ya-
Karla
PS--I'm up for the WW thing. I need help desperatly so let me know!
