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Show $aturday, December 5, 1998 The Park Record A-5 County Seat COUNTY EDITOR: Kevin M. Schultz 649-90 1 4 ext. 1 1 2 Basin man charged with raping 15-year-old high school girls The accused videotaped repeated sex acts with teenagers; mom did the filming by Kevin M. Schultz OF THE RECORD STAFF . . The Summit County Attorney's office filed first-degree felony charges against a Snyderville Basin man saying he raped and exploited his live-in girlfriend's 15-year-old daughter and her friend. The charges, filed in the Third District Court of Summit County, allege that Walter Lee Gordon, 30, a maintenance man in the Canyon Creek Apartments on Bitner Road, videotaped several pornographic encounters with two minors. , According to the report, at least one sexual encounter was filmed by one of the teenager's mother. The mother, says the report, also played a role in one of the sessions. The Summit County Sheriff's Department executed a search warrant war-rant on Monday for Gordon's Canyon Creek apartment and found the videotapes and other assorted pornographic materials. Gordon was then arrested and subsequently released on bail the following day. According to the report, Gordon videotaped three of his sexual encounters with' his girlfriend's daughter before a fourth encounter, which included one of the teenager's high school friends, led to his arrest. During the fourth encounter, the report reads, Gordon, his girlfriend and the two minors were drinking alcoholic beverages and preparing to go into the Canyon Creek hot tub when Gordon's girlfriend produced and began operating a video camera. Gordon then made several lewd comments to the teenage guest and lifted her bikini top. The foursome then went in the community hot tub where the two elders and one minor disrobed. At that time, the mother went to the second minor and "held her arms while Walter Gordon took off (the friend's) swimming suit." The report then says that the group went back to the apartment to sleep. The friend, though, reports that "she woke up in the middle of the night and found that Walter Gordon's head was in her lap." After making a few lewd comments, Gordon forcibly raped the minor. The next day, as the friend left the apartment, the girlfriend's daughter informed the friend that "Walter Gordon was the only person that was really like a dad to her." The minor though told a friend about the incident, which subsequently subse-quently led to the sheriff's department depart-ment learning of the rape. When deputies executed the warrant war-rant on Nov. 30, they found several pornographic videotapes including the one from the reported incident. Upon questioning, Gordon admitted that he had engaged in sexual sex-ual acts and videotaped pornographic pornograph-ic sessions with one of the minors. He also admitted to having videotaped video-taped the victim's mother. The 15-year-old daughter admitted admit-ted to the sexual acts, but said they were done on a consensual basis. Under Utah law, a person cannot provide sexual consent until age 14. Between the ages of 14 and 17, if the partners are more than three years apart and the older party entices or coerces the younger partner, he or she can be charged with unlawful sexual conduct with a minor. Gordon is being charged with four counts of rape, one charge of sodomy, three charges of sexual exploitation of a minor and two counts of supplying or selling alcoholic alco-holic beverages to a minor. He moved to the area about eight months ago from the Lake Point area, near Grantsville, Utah. Gordon resided in the apartment complex. He will be arraigned Tuesday, Dec. 8. 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The public hearing also featured a computer-simulated driving tour of the proposed road that took viewers ifrom the road's new origin on S.R. 224, immediately south of the Utah Department of Transportation's storage shed at Kimball Junction, up a steep winding route, finally ending just north of the Winter Sports Park. The access road currently used approaches the Sports Park from the south end of the Park. The road, which will be 35 feet wide, will be closed to private traffic during the Olympic Games, at which time buses will be provided to take spectators nearly halfway up the road. Visitors will then have to walk the remainder of the way. In designing the new road, said Project Manager Kevin Farley, his team took great pains to mitigate the visual impacts the new road will have for drivers traveling south on S.R. 224, toward Park City from the Junction. 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