3rd man accused of child sex abuse from Utah doomsday group

[roadmaster]

SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — A third man has been charged with child sexual abuse in connection with a Utah doomsday group that believed in polygamy and took child brides.
Robert Shane Roe, 34, of Castro, California, met the two founders of the group in a Facebook discussion group last year and traveled out to Utah where he was given a “bride” — a 5-year-old girl related to one of the men, prosecutor Kevin Daniels said.
Investigators knew previously that Roe was involved in the group, but the girl only recently revealed what happened when she was alone with him, said Daniels, the Sanpete County Attorney in central Utah.

Roe was charged Thursday with sodomy of a child for the alleged activity in August 2017. No attorney is listed in court documents for Roe.
Daniels said Roe acknowledges being alone with the girl, but denies abusing her.
She is the third girl victimized by men in the group, Daniels said.
The group’s two founders — Samuel W. Shaffer, 34, and John Coltharp, 34 — formed a group called the Knights of the Crystal Blade based on arcane Mormon ideas long abandoned by the mainstream church.
Each man secretly married two girls, ages 4 through 8, prosecutors have said. Each man married a relative of the other, according to court documents.
Shaffer was sentenced last month to up to life in prison after pleading guilty to child rape and abuse charges.

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[Common]

Stick them all in prison and make them scared they will be the prey

[Peter1469]

I had a couple of cases like that when I prosecuted for the Army. Some disturbing stuff.