Saturday, October 01, 2005
I'd want to take video of my mission, too... I mean, who wouldn't?
News Beat
Saturday, October 1, 2005
Psychosexual test for videotaper
OGDEN -- A judge ordered a psychosexual evaluation of a man who admitted to videotaping himself fondling teenage girls while on his church mission.
John Matthew Baysden, 22, will be returned to 2nd District Court on Jan. 10 for sentencing before 2nd District Judge Pamela Heffernan, who ordered the probe Wednesday. The 90-day evaluation conducted while in lockdown at the Utah State Prison diagnostic unit is meant to be a guide in sentencing by determining how much of a threat to the community a sex offender may be.
Baysden was arrested in January on multiple counts of forcible sexual abuse and voyeurism involving three girls in Roy. Two of them were molested as they slept, police say.
In June, Baysden pleaded guilty to reduced charges in a plea bargain.
Baysden had been flying in from his native North Carolina for court hearings since The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints cut short his mission after his arrest.
