Author: Kevin Thompson

WEST VALLEY CITY, Utah — A former Boy Scout leader, Charles Bates, has been charged with more than 80 felony counts related to child sexual abuse that allegedly spanned three decades. Bates, who faces charges including forcible sodomy, aggravated sexual abuse of a child, and object rape, was arrested late Friday at his West Valley City home. Prosecutors have requested that he be held without bail due to the severity and extensive nature of the alleged crimes. In addition to the abuse charges, Bates is accused of possessing 134 images of child sexual abuse material, some of which reportedly depict him…

Ogden, Utah — Kent Cody Barlow, a man accused of depraved indifference murder in the deaths of two young children, was back in court Thursday as a judge ruled to allow limited evidence from one of his previous convictions to be presented to jurors. The ruling came as part of ongoing proceedings in Barlow’s trial, where he faces charges related to the fatal crash that took the lives of three-year-olds Hunter Jackson and Odin Ratliff in May 2022. The children died when Barlow, reportedly high on methamphetamine, crashed his vehicle at speeds of approximately 120 mph into a stable where…