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Criminal charges have been filed against an excommunicated general authority of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
Washington County prosecutors charged George Patrick Lee, 64, on Monday with a single count of failure to register as a sex offender, a class A misdemeanor. He made a brief appearance in St. George’s 5th District Court and was released from the Purgatory Jail after posting $5,000 bail. He will be arraigned on Aug. 2.
Washington County sheriff’s deputies got a tip that Lee had been convicted of child sex abuse in the past but had not registered as a sex offender, as he is required to do by law.
“Detective Sergeant (Shauna) Jones contacted the Utah State Sex Offender Registry and confirmed that George was required to register with the state of Utah and had not since 2001,” Washington County sheriff’s deputy Nolan Gray said in a probable cause statement filed with the criminal charges.
Deputies went to Lee’s Washington City apartment and arrested him on Friday.
In 1989, Lee was a member of the LDS Church’s First Quorum of the Seventy when he was excommunicated for “apostasy and other conduct unbecoming a member of the church.” LDS Church leaders offered no more of an explanation for the excommunication.
According to published accounts from the time in LDS Church News, Lee himself criticized the LDS Church for what he said was a misinterpretation of scriptures and the faith’s neglect of Native American issues.
In 1994, Lee pleaded guilty to a third-degree felony charge of attempted sex abuse of a child and sentenced to 18 months probation.
Lee is the fourth man to be apprehended since the Washington County Sheriff’s Office announced a crackdown on unregistered sex offenders in the Dixie area. Using a publicly accessible database, police agencies have been able to provide maps of where sex offenders live. That Web site is www.familywatchdog.us.
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