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Show Sex atomise suspect ; booed over for trial I By MARC HADDOCK t Alan B. Hadfield, 35, of Lehi was I u"d over on charges of sodomy on ' j wild and child sexual abuse Monday following a preliminary eanng before Eighth Circuit Court tj He Lynn Davis. Judge Davis ordered Hadfield, J was released on his own "gmzance, to appear in Fourth wstnctCourtinProvoonAug.7. ,'! four-hour hearing featured "Stimony by five witnesses, in- 7n? an "-year-old boy and a 9-ar-o d girl who testified they had x particiPated in sexual acts a 1 ld' but with various other Jlu at homes in their Lehi M'gnborhood. eby and girl described several i ah,, "CeS of sodmy and sexual involving Hadfield in their 2lmny. The boy said he had Wjcipated with 13 other adults in " wme kinds of acts at various ' tWo nu" hUSeS "ear hiS- Where r three adults and up to six en were involved at a time. iikii!-Frl testified to participating BTh "sessions. a toy testified that on at least oral a HCaS'0ns Hadfie'd engaged in The a!1! 3nal intercourse with him. her T ,Said Hadfield had fondled had aw and her buttocks, and "gaged in oral intercourse with istant Utah Attorney General ;alsh carefully led the ! testimo rou8n tne graphic I acts any' as they related specific "wahif3 in the charees t0 Childr,.. ccurances in the ns ves - rather than to fixed dates. It was a tactic which drew criticism from Attorney Brad Rich, who is defending Hadfield. Rich argued for dismissal of the charges because the time of some of the alleged acts could not be pinpointed pin-pointed "to even get down to a month in which these incidents occurred." Judge Davis did not accept the argument. Dr. Paul Whitehead, a Salt Lake psychiatrist specializing in child and adolescent psychology, testified that sessions with children had turned up "approximately 20 to 40 names" of adults involved in sexual activity with 15 to 20 children -- and possibly more unidentified adults. Dr. Whitehead said he believed the children had been sexually abused on an average of two or three times a week for up to three or four years. Dr. Whitehead testified that as victims of chronic sexual abuse, the children would have a hard time pinning down dates of specific acts -but they could relate those acts to memorable events. In cross-examining Dr. Whitehead, Rich pointed out that children have been known to fabricate sexual histories. Whitehead countered that studies indicate that such fabrications happen in a small minority of the cases. He testified that both children suffer from major depressive disorders characteristic of children who have been sexually abused. Dr. William M. Palmer of the Primary Children's Medical Center, who had examined the children, said an examination with a colposcope, an instrument which magnifies small portions of the body for examination, indicated the children had been sexually abused - particularly par-ticularly the boy. Hadf ield's case is the first to result from more than a year of investigation in-vestigation by the Utah Attorney General into charges of large-scale sexual abuse of children in Lehi -abuse hinted at by the children's testimony. Other charges may follow, Parrish has stated, but to date only Hadfield has been legally charged in the case. At Hadfield's preliminary hearing, nine counts were reduced to seven after the prosecution and defense agreed to consolidate three counts of sodomy on a child into one. Notably absent from Monday's hearing was Dr. Barbara Snow, a child therapist who first treated the children testifying Monday and other Lehi children reportedly involved in-volved in the sexual activities. Rich pointed out several times that Snow had held several sessions with the children before either child implicated Hadfield in any sexual activities, and implied that the therapist may have led the children into making the accusation. But in a preliminary hearing, like that held Monday, the state is only required to demonstrate there is sufficient evidence to justify a trial. In the trial itself, the state must prove beyond a reasonable doubt that a crime has occurred. |