GOP Lawmaker Changes Child Rape Law to Help Relative Facing Charges
Briana Lupea
Republican Utah state Senate President J. Stuart Adams used his power to change local consent law to help a family member facing charges for raping a 13-year-old girl. Adams’s family member, an 18-year-old high school student, was arrested and looking at four first-degree felonies. Then Adams stepped in. Before Adams, 18-year-olds who had sex with 13-year-olds in Utah were treated like the adults they legally were and could face first-degree felony charges of child rape. In Utah, anyone under
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