Posted on 05/04/2010 10:19:48 AM PDT by Colofornian
FARMINGTON, N.M. (AP) - A foster father who previously faced 85 counts of criminal sexual penetration against a minor has been arrested on six counts of the same crime after a different alleged victim videotaped 1 of the incidents.
Forty-5-year-old Todd Mortensen confessed to the six counts, which reportedly occurred between March 22 and March 30 in his home, where the 12-year-old alleged victim lived as a foster child.
Mortensen was arrested...and booked into the San Juan County Adult Detention Center on six charges of second-degree criminal sexual contact of a minor younger than the age 13.
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Mortensen is not facing the previous 85 charges, which were dismissed by prosecutors in 2005, but the District Attorney's Office is looking into the old case.
Information from: the Farmington Daily Times, http://www.daily-times.com/
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Likewise for those “attracted” by the idea of procreating with multiple wives for eternity and continually having sexual relations with these multiple wives for eternity (getting a few more along the way, too... doncha know ...) — and completely and totally controlling your own universe that you have complete and total say over what goes on ...
I would imagine that certain people may be attracted towards that, too ...
True, but I won’t defend the church however it has not allowed multiple wives for over 100 years.
I questioned a Mormon coworker about their religious doctrines. They looked at me like I was insane. Then, I showed them their Church's official website. They said they would ask their Church leaders about it, but I never heard the outcome.
Show me almost any religion, and I'll show you a large portion of followers who have no idea what it's about.
...or teachers?
...whether or not they're judged "not guilty" by a jury of FReeper horn-dogs.
Must be different graveyard shifts and more days in a weekend in N.M.
Would you mind sharing what you showed them from the official website? I think it would be very useful.
Thanks.
THAT is the truth! Most congregants don't know their church's theological stance. On a LOT of issues.
the church however it has not allowed multiple wives for over 100 years.
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It never stopped...
D&C 132 has never been recinded...
The everlasting covenant of mormonism, AKA the first principle is polygamy...
The only way to be saved and go to the mormon afterlife is to practice polygamy..
That basically is what was “restored”
Joey Smith was a big time skirt chaser...he had over 40 mistresses when he got himself killed..
some as young as 14...several were other mens wives...
The guy with a lot of concubines was honored by the mormons...
Monogamy (one man, one woman) was called “prostitution” by the mormons...
Why do you think the homosexuals went nuts over Prop 8 ??? The hypocracy of the mormons..
The homosexuals didnt do much towards the monogamous Baptists...
Yes same sex marriage is a perverted lifestyle and unBiblical...but so is polygamy..
Mormon prophets kept practing polygamy for decades after the 1890 proclamation...
Even the prophet who did the proclaiming...
It was merely a lip service so that
1. They coulod become a state
2. so that the US government wouldnt take their land and belongings
3. so that they could cover up the polygamy
4. so that no more mormon polygamists would be imprisoned and the SLC embarassed..
5. they could just go underground...and laugh at the US government...
You were saying ...
It’s “Pervert Country”
Ahhh... so the Mormons are there... :-)
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I find it very disappointing that you have posted a comment such as this. While I’m an admitted agnostic, I grew up in church and am reminded of a particular verse right now.
And why do you look at the speck in your brother’s eye, but do not consider the plank in your own eye? Matthew 7:3
Not necessarily.
Yep.
Do you know what means?
They said they would ask their Church leaders about it, but I never heard the outcome.
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They probably didnt get an answer...
or they were told they were close to apostasizing...
Truly, that is as bad as blaming everyone named Henry for the crime of one person named Henry. It is bitter, angry thinking and I usually reserve those two adjectives for Dimocrats.
"It is our understanding that the charges against Mr. Mortensen had nothing whatsoever to do with his church participation, which did not put him in contact with children. Mr. Mortensen will face church disciplinary action," Bloomfield Stake President LeRoy Dugger said in a prepared statement. Dugger also served as stake president at the time Mortensen faced the first charges.
Conflict of interest?
It is unclear whether Lisa Mortensen's role in the social work field made it easier to reach out and offer private assistance to families experiencing difficulties with their children.
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The Mortensens formally adopted six children after first fostering them, according to CYFD records. Once they adopted the children, they no longer renewed their license. At least one adopted daughter, who is 18, was allowed by authorities to remain in the home.
The last contact the department had with Mortensen was when he renegotiated the state subsidy for his adopted children in 2009. Adoptive families are required to renegotiate annually the dollar amount the state gives eligible adopted children.
Looks like a money motive for fostering and adopting all these children.
The State of NM has a lot to answer for in this case.
Not true.
First of all, not technically in terms of the century mark:
Like I am, B. Carmon Hardy is a descendent of Lds polygamists. Hardy, in his appendix to his book, Solemn Covenant: The Mormon Polygamous Passage, lists person by person about 250 men who took on additional plural wives between 1890-1910 (post polygamy announcement).
These were quietly solemnized by Lds officials, often in Mexico.
Secondly, Lds officials didn't break up most of the already-existing polygamous unions. So some of those Hardy documented as marrying in the early 1900s were still alive in the early 1960s.
Even beyond that, Lds view afterlife as "another planet living." Hence, Lds accept polygamy when it's colonized to Kolob; but not here. That's why Lds men and women who have multiple serial spouses, and are sealed to each in the temple for eternity, will supposedly (in the Mormon worldview) make them eternal polygamists.
If this view is correct (which I don't believe it is), people alive in 2010 wpuld be eternal polygamists. (And, some Lds apostles have taught that polygamy will be re-instituted when the Mormon Jesus returns -- see Bruce McConkie's book, Mormon Doctrine).
Do you know what means?
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Yes, I think I do.
You must think differently or I suspect you would not have asked that question. No need to be coy. Say what you need to say.
Not being coy. I just wondered if you knew what the verse means, that’s all.
Hospital sources said Mortensen worked the graveyard shift, from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m., three days every weekend.
Must be different graveyard shifts and more days in a weekend in N.M.
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8 days a week...
:)
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