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Salt Lake City’s NBC affiliate reports:
A former youth leader from Springville has admitted to sexually abusing a 14-year-old boy after police say he paid the boy thousands of dollars not to tell anyone. Kevin Sykes, 55, pleaded guilty Feb. 9 to attempted aggravated sex abuse of a child and aggravated sex abuse of a child, first-degree felonies, plus three counts of forcible sexual abuse and four counts of sexual exploitation of a minor, second-degree felonies.
Sykes was charged with sexually abusing a young boy for years, beginning when the boy was 10 years old, and giving the boy as much as $15,000 to keep the abuse secret. During one incident in 2019 when the boy told Sykes to stop because he did not like it, Sykes told him, “‘Too bad,’ and, ‘I’m paying you money not to say anything,’ and kept doing it,” charging documents state. Police said Sykes was a youth leader in his church and interacted with boys the same age range as those found in the pornography on his phone,
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Kevin Sykes, 55, was charged with sexually abusing a young boy for years, beginning when the boy was 10 years old, and giving the boy as much as $15,000 to keep the abuse secret.
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Kevin Sykes, 55, youth leader of a Springville church, pleaded guilty to 1st degree attempted aggravated sex abuse of a child, 1st degree aggravated sex abuse of a child, 3 counts of forcible sexual abuse and 4 counts of sexual exploitation of a minor. https://t.co/7aA9w4rQyE pic.twitter.com/Y6phgsjTWU
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