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Show Hearing For Clinton Boy Underway FARMINGTON A hearing hear-ing was expected to resume today to-day (Wednesday) for a 15-year-old Clinton boy to determine deter-mine if he is to be tried as an adult in connection with the sexual molestation and strangulation stran-gulation death of a 2-year-old neighbor girl. THE HEARING began last Wednesday in First District Juvenile Court in Farmington before Judge Kent Bachman. The hearing was closed to all news media and to persons not directly connected with the hearing. The youth, John P. Miller Jr., is charged with the death of Anne (Little Anne) Hoskis-son, Hoskis-son, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Bruce Hoskisson, 1182 North 600 West, Clinton, last Aug. 5. THE LITTLE girl's body was found shortly after 8 a.m. on Aug. 6 after an all-night search by more than 800 Davis County and northern Utah law enforcement officers, relatives, rela-tives, friends and neighbors. Several organized search and rescue organizations, some using us-ing dogs, participated in the ,. search. The young defendant is accused ac-cused of kidnapping the little girl early in the evening of Aug. 5 and later sexually molesting her before she was killed, apparently from strangulation, according to local police reports. re-ports. Her body was tound stuffed in a closet of an abandoned aban-doned home about two blocks from where the victim lived. THE YOUTH has been provided pro-vided psychiatric examinations examina-tions at the Utah State Hospital Hospit-al in Provo and one consultant there strongly recommended to the court that the boy be tried as an adult, according to Garrett Watkins, the spokesman spokes-man representing the Juvenile Court who met with the press following Wednesday's hearing. Four other persons testified at last Wednesday's hearing and "three or four more are scheduled to be heard today," according to the spokesman. The defense will put three or "maybe more" witnesses on the stand, he said. TESTIFYING last week were a state psychiatrist who examined the defendant; Clinton Clin-ton Police Chief LeRoy Webb; a doctor who examined the body; a Davis County deputy sheriff who investigated the alleged crime; the director ot the State Youth Development Center in Ogden; and a consultant consul-tant for forensic psychiatry at the Utah State Hospital. Most of the testimony heard last week was "to lay the groundwork" for the hearing, it was explained. DAVIS COUNTY'S Attorney's Attor-ney's Office is pressing for the youth to be tried as an adult because of the nature of the three felony charges for w hich the youth is accused murder, mur-der, kidnapping and sexual assault, grb |