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Show Pge THE DAILY HERALD, (www.HaiiTheHerald.comX Prow. Utah, Wednesday, November 6, 2002 A2 Court Briefing MOTION DENIED -- A trial judge set a month-lon- g Monday for an Orem man charged with sexually abusing Each count carries a possible penalty of up to 15 years in the acts," he told Stott. "The only thing that is common is the defendant." seven children. Carl Jensen, 39, is scheduled to stand trial March 31 through May 2 on 13 counts of sexual abuse. Fourth District Judge Gary Stott also denied Jensen's motion to separate the case into five trials. Jensen might appeal that decision to the Utah Supreme Court, said Mike Esplin, Jensen's attorney. Esplin said the trial could be postponed if the court agreed to hear the appeal. Stott ruled a jury would not be unfairly prejudiced by grouping the allegations together and that the conduct charged is closely related in time and crimi- nal objective. The charges specify alleged incidents between January 1992 and March 2002. Esplin said the span was too broad for the allegations to be tried together. That issue would be part of an appeal if Jensen decides to pursue one. Esplin also argued the charges allege different criminal acts against male and female victims of different ages. "There is no commonality in prison. SENTENCING A Park City man paid $75,000 in restitution to his fraud victims after SENTENCING POSTA Hill Air Force Base official who pleaded guilty to forcing a Provo woman to have sex with him had his sentencing postponed Monday to next year. Frank L. Garcia, 53, was hospitalized last month and needs six more weeks to recover, said his attorney, Kent Snider. Snider declined to reveal the reason for Garcia's hospitalization. Judge Stott set sentencing for PONED base, said Capt. Monica Bland, the base's deputy director of public affairs. He is on paid leave until after he is sentenced, Bland said. According to police reports, Garcia posed as a returned LDS missionary on the Internet to lure the woman to meet him in a BYU parking Jot on April 16, 2001. He initially was charged with raping the woman in his van but agreed to plead guilty to two counts of forcible sexual abuse, each a - A HurriSENTENCING cane man pleaded guilty Monday to two counts of sexually abusgirl in Provo in ing a 1992 and was sentenced to up to 15 years in prison. Rudy Canto Perez, 46, must serve that sentence after he completes the prison term he is serving for sexually abusing another child, Judge Stott said. Perez pleaded guilty in exchange for a reduced charge of felonies of two second-degre- e child sexual abuse. He originally was charged with child sodomy, a felony, which carries a possible sentence of five years to life. tal. RAD is a condition experienced by some children who were ignored as infants. The state took custody of the Hansen's six children in April. A seventh child, born since then, remains with its parents. - felony. -degree both adopted from Russian orphanages, are troubled. Prosecutors say the children are malnourished. "They are Russian adoptees who clearly have reactive attachment disorder," said Philip Danielson, an attorney representing the Hansens. "They dispute what's being alleged completely." Danielson said the couple was trying to find help for the children when they took them to Washington, where a doctor ordered the boy held in a hospi- PRELIM SET A preliminary hearing was set in January for a Saratoga Springs couple charged with starving two of their children. second- second-degre- Judge Stott set the preliminary hearing, which attorneys on both sides said could last an entire day, for Jan. 17. The Hansens say their son, daughter and third-degre- Garcia, an Ogden resident, is a civilian program director for aging aircraft at the Air Force possession of about $40,000 worth of the drug. Gary L. Groves, 28, pleaded e guilty in September to a felony for intending to distribute 10 pounds of marijuana. Police executed a search warrant of his west Orem home on March 19 and found 14 bags of the drug from a shed in the back yard, Orem Police Lt. Doug Edwards said. Judge Stott ordered Groves to complete a drug treatment program during his jail sentence or serve an additional 60 days. A he was sentenced Monday to one year in jail. Randy S". Yagi, 46, pleaded guilty to two counts of acting as an unregistered securities agent. e Both charges are felonies. "He got some friends, a couple, involved in some investments, then took out a loan in their names he didn't pay back," said Dave Wayment, Utah County deputy attorney. "It is a case of affinity fraud. Like so many of these crimes, the victims were preyed on by people they knew." Yagi said the money for restitution came from another friend. Yagi plans to pay back the friend, he said. 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