Mormon Leader Arrested On Five Child Sex Charges

The East Idaho News reports:

A 45-year-old man has been arrested after police say he gave naked massages to multiple young boys. Virgil Larson is charged with five counts of felony child sexual abuse.

Court documents say on July 3, a Bannock County Sheriff’s deputy was told of a possible sexual abuse case after “several boys had possibly been touched inappropriately by a neighbor and church leader who was giving them massages.”

Court documents say Larson was the first counselor in the leadership of his local Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints ward. A warrant was issued for Larson’s arrest on Tuesday, and he was booked into the Bannock County Jail on the same day with a bond of $100,000.

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