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Show Policeman gets prison term BOUNTIFUL Roger G. Closen, a former Bountiful City police officer, was sentenced Friday Fri-day to consecutive prison terms after af-ter pleading guilty to sexual abuse of a young girl and a mentally impaired im-paired woman. Closen was sentenced by Second District Judge Rodney S. Page to consecutive terms of up to five years and fined $2,500. Judge Page also ordered the defendant to pay all counseling costs his victims may have incurred or may incur in the future. Defense Atty. Jack Helgesen pleaded with Judge Page to sentence sent-ence Closen to the Utah State Hospital Hos-pital instead of to prison, stating that the defendant "has been involved in-volved in serious personal problems, prob-lems, including "a messy and sometimes violent divorce case with his wife." Judge Page said that violating the code of a police officer and preying on the mentally impaired and young girls left him no choice but to impose the maximum prison sentence sent-ence allowed under the charges for i which the defendant pleaded guil-Q ty. a |