The Salt Lake Tribune from Salt Lake City, Utah • 31

The Sait Lake Tribune AJA Tuesday February 199b Satanism Probe Comes Up Empty Defamation? Jury Will Decide Continued from D-l Wasatch County Offers Land for UVSC Campus rics LDS bishops and members of the Tabernacle Choir Others alleged that general authorities of the church were abusing children as part of a satanic ritual King said the investigation found the allegations involving church leaders to be absurd Also in 1991 a University of Utah Medical Center psychologist said that there were 366 victims of satanic ritual abuse under treatment by therapists in Utah The investigation launched by then-Gov Norm Bangerter and the Legislature was conducted by two full-time investigators who canvassed law-enforcement agencies social-work offices and religious leaders to find cases of abuse King said some informants claimed to have participated in satanic rituals recently- They said there were at a ritual in the mountains the night before we spent all day tracking around the hills and couldnt find anything Then they said I must have been given a drug or brainwashed to cloud my mind Jerry Lazar head of the department of psychiatry at LDS Hospital said allegations of satanic ritual abuse often are made by persons who believe they remember abuse years after it happened Sometimes the memories turn out to be true and sometimes they are false Lazar said In some cases false memories are induced by therapists He said he has never been able to independently verify memories of satanic ritual abuse THE ASSOCIATED PRESS An investigation by the Utah Attorney General Office has failed to uncover any evidence of a satamc conspiracy to abuse and murder Utah children Investigator Mike King told KUTV that a report due to be released next month will say no evidence was found to justify prosecution for alleged crimes King and another investigator screened 225 cases and gave close scrutiny to 125 of them during VA years King said he talked to hundreds of victims who alleged they were raped tortured forced to perform horrible acts and brainwashed Some said they saw babies murdered or were forced to participate in ritual murders I really feel for these people and I would like to help them but we just couldn't find the evidence King said Investigation for the report titled Ritual Abuse in the State of Utah was launched with $250000 from the Legislature in 1991 after numerous allegations of satanic ritual child abuse Among the allegations were those of Elder Glenn Pace then a member of the presiding bishopric of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and now in the churchs First Quorum of the Seventy In a memo to other church leaders Pace said he knew of 60 victims of satanic abuse and that there might have been as many as 800 in Utah He charged that the satanic conspiracy included members of bishop However officials feel Wasatch County is in a different situation When UVSC opened an education center in Heber City in January 47 people enrolled A similar center in Park City in Summit County several years ago had 1 1 enroll during its first quarter Barbara vonDiether director of the college's services Summit and Wasatch counties estimates more than half the students attending the Park City center live in Wasatch County Another 300 Wasatch residents travel to the Orem campus each week In addition to educational opportunities Wasatch County officials see economic benefits Mike Dalby the countys economic development director says the college could bring more than $2 million a year to county businesses Under terms of the offer Wasatch County would reserve 10 acres for the college to be deeded over to it if significant progress is made within three years Another 10 acres will be reserved for 10 years to accommodate future expansion It gives them UVSC the burden to perform said Commissioner Keith Jacobson By Tom Noffsinger SPECIAL TO THE TRIBUNE HEBER CITY The Wasatch County Commission Monday bolstered Kerry Romesburg's commitment to bring a campus of higher education to the county Romesburg president of Utah Valley State College in Orem was told Monday the county would deed up to 20 acres of prime property to the school if it constructs a campus on the outskirts of Heber City However whether the school takes the county up on its offer depends on the Board of Regents that oversees Utahs nine public colleges and universities The board will take up the proposal during its meeting in St George March 17 Were delighted with what the county has done by coming forward with this incredible site Romesburg said Last year a developer donated land for a similar campus for UVSC in neighboring Summit County as part of a housing project but the offer was refused by the Regents who found the demand for higher education was not growing as fast as the countys population Hanson wrote Raskins attorney Aaron Nelson said the ruling is disappointing but declined to comment further Raskin was unavailable for comment Monday George Haley attorney for Mattis called Hansons finding a big victory Were looking forward to our day in court Mattis prevailed on the legal issues so the only question for the jury to decide is whether Raskins comments are defamatory he said The defamation case has created a stir on the campus because of the refusal of the schools insurer the state Division of Risk Management to defend Raskin A clause in Raskins homeowners policy provides coverage anyway but members of the Us Academic Freedom and Tenure Committee argue that the risk managers decision sets a dangerous precedent for other faculty members The consequences of this decision for academic freedom and the willingness of faculty to take on controversial issues in free and open debate are grave faculty members state in a memo But the risk manager determined that Raskins speech did not fall within the scope of his university employment: He was not ordered to give the talk by a supervisor nor did he deliver it during normal working hours Further the risk manager argued the Us insurance coverage does not extend to allegedly defamatory statements resulting from fraud or malice of an employee Deadheads Face LSD Drug Charge 1 i i sH 1 i -f' 8 2 HOME FURNISHINGS jj pected LSD Police believe the pair planned to sell the illegal hallucinogen at the Dead shows Carbon County prosecutors filed second-degree felony charges against the men in 7th District Court in Price Two Grateful Dead fans were charged last week with drug possession in connection with a 2500-hit stash of LSD found in their truck Terry McNamer 29 of Des Moines Iowa told police he was heading to the Deads Salt Lake City concerts Feb 20 when a Utah Highway Patrol trooper pulled him over on US Highway 6 near Price Trooper Dave Joyner was tipped that McNamers Toyota pickup truck had been driving erratically and drove behind him to investigate McNamers expired Iowa tags belonged to a Pontiac Grand Prix so Joyner pulled him over said Sgt Joe Christman of Utah Division of Investigations The trooper saw an open container of beer and a powder-stained vial and searched the truck 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