Ex-Mormon Official Jailed for Sex Abuse

The former host of a Mormon Church radio program that decried the evils of child abuse and pornography was sentenced to one to 15 years in prison for sexually abusing a 14-year-old girl. Lloyd Gerald Pond, 51, pleaded guilty in November to felony forcible sexual abuse, a charge reduced from forcible sodomy. The plea bargain provoked public debate about whether Pond got a break because he was a spokesman for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. “I know what damage I have done to this victim and I am deeply, deeply sorry,” Pond said.