Posted on 07/21/2012 7:46:10 AM PDT by Colofornian
SALT LAKE CITY — A man who pleaded guilty to having sex with a 15-year-old girl because he said he received an "impression" to do so, has been placed on probation.
Geody Harman, 38, was sentenced to three years probation for unlawful sexual activity with a minor, a third-degree felony, by 3rd District Judge Judith Atherton. Harman was given a sentence of zero to five years in prison, but that sentence was suspended. He was ordered to serve a jail sentence of 240 days, but was given credit for the 240 days he had already served.
Harman was originally charged with first-degree felony rape, but pleaded guilty to a third-degree felony charge as part of a plea bargain. In exchange, he agreed to testify against Terrill Dalton, the victim's father, who was convicted of two counts of rape, a first-degree felony, in March.
Prosecutors say Dalton, 45, condoned an "impression" that Harman said he had received indicating that he needed to have sex with the then-15-year-old girl. Both Dalton and Harman were leaders of a small religious group called the Church of the First Born and the General Assembly of Heaven.
Dalton called himself the "Holy Ghost" while Harman was often referred to as "God in the flesh." In a prior hearing, Dalton's daughter testified that she was promised she would receive blessings if she had sex with the two men and felt extreme pressure from her father and those in his sect to comply.
Atherton sentenced Terrill Dalton to consecutive terms of five years to life in prison in May.
Between this lead graph ("having sex with a 15-year-old") and the same phrase approach used in the headline -- "sex with a teen"...what a way to describe rape...albeit statutory rape.
The law doesn't recognize "consensual sex" between a minor girl and adult men:
From the article: Geody Harman, 38, was sentenced to three years probation for unlawful sexual activity with a minor...Harman was originally charged with first-degree felony rape, but pleaded guilty to a third-degree felony charge as part of a plea bargain. In exchange, he agreed to testify against Terrill Dalton, the victim's father, who was convicted of two counts of rape, a first-degree felony, in March. Prosecutors say Dalton, 45, condoned an "impression" that Harman said he had received indicating that he needed to have sex with the then-15-year-old girl. Both Dalton and Harman were leaders of a small religious group called the Church of the First Born and the General Assembly of Heaven. Dalton called himself the "Holy Ghost" while Harman was often referred to as "God in the flesh."
"Church of the Firstborn" is a highly emphasized early Mormon concept (see this BYU entry Church of the Firstborn)...
You can see here that this sect is a Mormon offshoot of the mainstream Mormon church: MORMON SPLINTER GROUPS
well my goodness another Mormon pervert..seems the news is full of them today. Almost as many as GOP..
The Mormon historians have the cart before the horse. What happens next is most of those guys end up in America in the 1600s (as the New Sweden colony's first shipments of captives).
They expand and spread.
Due to the lack of zap and buzz in native American amanita muscaria they switch to a local product for a source of religious inspiration ~ it's called peyote. Some congregations may use other drugs as well, but not all use a drug having become more regularized in their practices.
Young Joseph Smith and Oliver Cowdry somehow fall into the hands of the COFB and next thing you know they've seen various spectral images.
There ~ does that take care of the picture?
Note that today most congregations have little understanding of where they came from or how any of this happened, but they do have rules, and the members obey or else. The COFB is most famous for prohibiting members from seeing physicians. They have a very high infant mortality rate.
Up until recently they practiced serial polygamy!
And....my goodness....a mormon judge practically giving him an ‘attaboy!” for DOING it.
In other words, this "Mormon Offshoot" actually started centuries before the Mormon church was founded.
Maybe there's a different definition of "offshoot"......
why are BOTH of these a-holes not being lined up and SHOT?
It's just always been that way.
My own thoughts are that Smith stuffed his COFB materials into the Doctrines and Covenants just as filler but he'd had them around for a while. Later Mormons felt it necessary to interpret that material in terms of the LDS belief structure.
One of the mysteries is why he didn't also pick up on the late 1700 prophecies by the Two Sisters, and where's the story about cutting the horse loose ~ which is similar to the 5 nations story but the horse goes West and not East.
Eventually somebody will drop something on the net that explains those differences.
Well, that’s a mighty nice Judge to let him slide.. regardless “Time Served”. The victim still gets a lifetime sentence..
oh well. Justice is blind, they say.
It used to be, Judges protected the children.
I guess “Change” is here alright.. and its sitting on benches all over this land.
So the father had sex with the daughter? Is that what they're saying? The article is deliberately unclear on this point for some reason.
this is happening all over the country..our judges suck just as much as the criminals. only reason it was posted was because of the work mormon..we have the same situation in our area right now with a non mormon judge and a pervert molester...there is harder punishment for a public drunk than a sex offender.
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