Curtis Larson calls for a "recall" of David Leavitt
In the upcoming primary election in Utah on June 28th 2022
Curtis Larson
In March, former prosecutors in the office, with a collective 111 years of prosecution experience, including me, issued a public statement of no confidence in David Leavitt’s ability or competence to serve as the county’s lead prosecutor, and also set forth various reasons for the declaration. I urge all Utah County residents to review those documents at
before casting their ballot this year.
Recently, David Leavitt implicated himself in a ritualistic sex abuse cult. No one in law enforcement named him as a suspect. He did it himself, and immediately called the victim “tragically mentally ill,” the allegations being investigated “lies”, and it all politically motivated. I find it disheartening that any prosecutor would refer to a victim of an alleged sex abuse in such a demeaning way.
Is this how he views all victims of such offenses?;or just those that make accusations against him.
Or are his actions indicative of a person with a guilty conscience. All of us should be concerned with this errant behavior, and his trying the case in the public forum. Before becoming a prosecutor I spent 12 years as a law enforcement officer.
During that service I received some training on these types of satanic cults. I was taught that, depending on the level of depravity the cult had reached, their rituals can involve child rape, child sodomy, and other child and adult sex offenses, sexual orgies, animal and human mutilations, consumption or use of animal and human blood, and even animal or human sacrifices. Children that are trafficked into these cults by parents, and others, are controlled by threats of physical harm (or actual infliction thereof), including death, and rewards for obedience.
They are trafficked to those outside the cult for money, and among the cult members as payment for things such as, favorable testimony in court hearings, letters of recommendation, recruiting others into the cult, or the bartered sale/purchase of material goods. David Leavitt has only indicated that he and his wife were reportedly involved in murder and cannibalism. Of course, this is probably just to make the allegations sound so outlandish that the alleged victim must surely be mentally ill to have made them, and to relegate the allegations to just tabloid-type news.
It’s clear that David Leavitt knows what the allegations are, and therefore, must have some form of public document in his possession which details them. Why hasn’t he released the document to the public to prove his case? Is there more in the document about him and his wife than he’s stating in public?
Is he fearful he’ll lose control of the public narrative and his desperate effort to discredit the victims and law enforcement if the public actually has the document to study? In any event, if the allegations prove to be credible and truthful, then the cult they were allegedly involved in was the most depraved type of satanic cults that can exist, and it was probably involved in more than just the criminal offenses stated by David Leavitt.
As a prior prosecutor who screened thousands of cases, including sex offenses against children, and also prosecuted them in lesser number, I can with certainty say that evaluation of these types of cases for charging is challenging, and requires a weighing of each case on its factual merits and demerits (including the detail of the victim’s account), the victim’s ability and stability to assist in the prosecution and the lasting trauma it will inflict on the victim, and the laws and procedures which will govern the case.
David Leavitt seems to want all to believe he’s taking the high road in this, when in actuality, his conduct so far has fallen short in propriety as the lead prosecutor in Utah County, in deference to an ongoing criminal investigation, and in consideration of a victim’s right to a fair thorough investigation into the allegations. In my experience, he seems to be acting much like a criminal defendant who has all the facts and the law stacked against him.
All the above adds up to the need for Utah County residents to effectively “recall” progressive David Leavitt by voting him out of office this 2022 Primary Election. The Fraternal Order of Police supports candidate Jeff Gray in the county attorney race, as do other law enforcement officials, legislators, mayors, and the current Utah Solicitor General
And though former candidate Adam Pomeroy’s name remains on the ballot, he suspended his campaign and is also supporting Jeff Gray. [Please do not vote for Adam Pomeroy on the ballot.
Your vote will not be counted for any candidate.] I also support Jeff Gray. He is the only candidate now standing in the race who will enforce Utah’s laws, restore cooperative efforts with law enforcement to keep our communities safe, and hold criminals responsible for their actions. I urge all Utah County residents to vote David Leavitt out of office this year.
Curtis L. Larson
Former Deputy Utah County Attorney
Utah County Resident