Ex-Mormon Official Jailed for Sex Abuse
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The former host of a Mormon Church radio program that decried the evils of child abuse and pornography was sentenced to one to 15 years in prison for sexually abusing a 14-year-old girl. Lloyd Gerald Pond, 51, pleaded guilty in November to felony forcible sexual abuse, a charge reduced from forcible sodomy. The plea bargain provoked public debate about whether Pond got a break because he was a spokesman for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. “I know what damage I have done to this victim and I am deeply, deeply sorry,” Pond said.
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