Special report: Young sex abuse survivors, backed by a county attorney, say a new Utah law deprived them of justice
Serial abusers should be tried and punished in adult court, they say.
(Leah Hogsten | The Salt Lake Tribune) Annie, now 20, was 16-years old when a classmate in high school raped her and then told her from that moment on, You re my girlfriend, but I m not your boyfriend. From that moment on, he stalked her almost daily. San Juan County Attorney Kendall Laws said he wanted to prosecute Annie s attacker in adult court for sexual assault, but a gap in the law prevented him from doing so.