Hamblin Doc Drop: The 2003 Custody Order

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In 2003, Judge Steven L. Hansen of the Fourth District Court for Utah County issued Findings of Fact, Conclusions of Law, and and Order Regarding Custody, Parent-Time and Related Matters in the matter of David Lee Hamblin vs. Roselle Hamblin, Civil No. 994400557 DA. The document is presented in image galleries for readers of IRA.

Judge Hansen found that the Hamblins took their children to at least one Native American Church ceremony, but he blamed David Hamblin alone for giving each of his children peyote, a Schedule I controlled substance under federal and state law. Miriam Hamblin would have been between 3 and 4 years old during the ceremony. This was a violation of Utah Criminal Code 76-5-112.5, Endangerment of a Child or a Vulnerable Adult, and it would have been either a second or third degree felony. David Lee Hamblin was never prosecuted for this crime.

The court’s findings are also corroborative of the 2012 claims of Rachel, Eliza, and Katherine Hamblin with respect to Angela Fenton, the adult female patient with dissociative identity disorder David Lee Hamblin moved into his Provo home. Rachel Hamblin was forced to stay home from school in order to work in therapy sessions with Angela Fenton, even though Rachel was a minor with no qualifications whatsoever. The court found that David Lee Hamblin had sexual contact with Angela Fenton, a mentally ill woman who believed she was a 10 year old boy named CJ. Fenton arguably lacked the capacity to consent as a result of her mental impairments, a fact that David Lee Hamblin was aware of as her therapist. Rape in Utah is defined as sexual intercourse without a victim’s consent, and David Lee Hamblin arguably raped Angela Fenton.

He was not prosecuted.

The court noted that Rachel and Eliza Hamblin met with DCFS in June 2000 and “gave detailed statements regarding sexual abuse which had been perpetrated against them by [David Lee Hamblin] over a period of several years.”

The court also examined the agreement David Lee Hamblin entered into with the Division of Occupational and Professional Licensing (DOPL) to surrender his license. That agreement contained Hamblin’s own admission that he had sexual relationships with his patients during therapy sessions, and his claim that the sexual acts were therapeutic. Two of the adult female patients testified against Hamblin at his divorce trial. Conrad Gottfredson, the LDS bishop and stake president who had referred Brett Bluth to Hamblin for treatment to overcome Bluth’s same sex attraction, also testified. Gottfredson allegedly received therapy from Hamblin for same sex attraction, and routinely referred Latter Day Saints to Hamblin for therapy.

Hamblin was not prosecuted for sexually abusing his patients.

DOPL did not conduct an interview with Brett Bluth, even though he contacted them to offer to provide his account of Hamblin’s abuse. DOPL did not conduct a comprehensive investigation of Hamblin’s therapy practice, and therefore never uncovered the fact that Hamblin had molested Tobias Schroeder, the victim in the current criminal case in Manti, Utah. DOPL limited its investigation to Hamblin’s disclosures of abuse, and never attempted to account for the full extent of Hamblin’s abuse of patients.

The court’s findings corroborated the allegations by the Hamblin sisters that they had not regularly attended school. Incredibly, the court laid sole blame for the truancy of the Hamblin sisters on David Lee Hamblin. Roselle Stevenson received no blame whatsoever for the fact that her children were chronically absent from school, just as she received no blame for sitting by as David Hamblin forced their daughters to ingest peyote.

The court found clear and convincing evidence to substantiate the allegations made by Rachel and Eliza Hamblin with respect to sexual abuse. The sisters “each gave detailed testimony with regard to sexual abuse…which testimony was not only consistent with the testimony given by the other, but also consistent with other statements which they had made outside of court regarding this subject.”

The court found that Rachel and Eliza’s Hamblin’s testimony “was supported by the evaluation, investigation, analysis and expert opinions of Dr. Beall, who concluded that the evidence he considered mandated a conclusion that they had been sexually abused by petitioner.” While the court noted that the Hamblin sisters had attended therapy sessions with Dr. Hugh Allred-who they later alleged to be a member of the Church of Satan-the court did not reference any of Dr. Allred’s therapy sessions, findings, or any other materials pertaining to him in reaching their conclusions.

Dr. Lois Dettenmaier’s conclusion that David Lee Hamblin did not molest Miriam Hamblin was not persuasive to the court, and the court stated that Dr. Dettenmaier did not investigate and test “the semen story.” The document does not say what the semen story was, but it did say that Dr. Dettenmaier had not heard the detailed testimony of Rachel and Eliza Hamblin. As a result, Dr. Dettenmaier’s failure to “follow through sufficiently to provide this court with enough credibility and reliability to her testimony” was cited as a reason for the court’s refusal to allow David Lee Hamblin supervised parent-time with Miriam Hamblin.

Dr. Darren Featherstone’s testimony was rejected by the court because he “did not conduct a sexual abuse evaluation with regards to any of the children, nor did he do any testing to evaluate their credibility or the reliability of their statements to him.”

At the conclusion of the document, Randy S. Lester of Young, Kester, and Petro is listed as David Lee Hamblin’s attorney. Today, Michael J Petro is one of the attorneys representing David Lee Hamblin in his criminal case involving Hamblin’s alleged victim Emily Sheets, whose parents David and Deborah Sheets were named as CS members in 2012 by the Hamblin sisters in their victims statements. Petro’s biography on his former website notes that he served as a visiting professor for the Leavitt Institute in Ukraine, alleged CS member David Okerlund Leavitt’s nonprofit.

Conclusion

The Hamblin sisters provided allegations of sexual abuse in 2000, throughout the period between 2000 and 2003, and then again in 2012. Their father was not prosecuted and convicted for a single sexual assault, even though he admitted to having sex with Angela Fenton, a mentally ill woman who was so incapacitated she was moved into the Hamblin residence in Provo for round the clock treatment and therapy. Hamblin was not prosecuted for sexually abusing Rachel and Eliza Hamblin in 2000 or 2003, even though a court in 2003 found by clear and convincing evidence that he had sexually abused Rachel and Eliza. The court noted that Katherine Hamblin did not testify at the custody hearing, because Hamblin had relinquished any claim to custody or visitation with Katherine. In 2012, the Provo Police recorded David Lee Hamblin apologizing to his daughter for raping her.

The Utah County Attorneys Office failed to convict him with a recorded apology for rape.

There is no credible or innocent explanation for the litany of failures that law enforcement and prosecutors incurred in failing to prosecute, convict, and imprison David Lee Hamblin. There is no credible or innocent explanation for the failure of DOPL to go beyond Hamblin’s admitted misconduct in its investigation in order to determine if there were other victims from his therapy practice. There is zero credible or innocent explanation for the failure of the Utah County Attorney’s Office to secure a conviction and jail time for David Lee Hamblin in 2014 with a recorded apology to his daughter for raping her.

If that recorded apology isn’t proof beyond a reasonable doubt, one wonders what would qualify. IRA is presenting the document from Hamblin’s custody hearing for readers to consider. It has been nearly two years since Hamblin was arrested in 2022, and we have no trial date for either of his current cases. This has reached a level of absurdity that strains the credulity of the credulous, but public pressure ensured that a new special prosecutor was appointed in the Sheets case in American Fork.

Nathan Evershed is moving that case forward.

In Manti, Judge Marvin Bagley is wrangling with the Utah County Attorneys Office over whether or not they can step in as special prosecutors in the Tobias Schroeder case, after special prosecutor Ryan Peters was appointed to a judgeship by Governor Spencer Cox, an allegedly closeted homosexual man with family ties to Sanpete County, as well as an online friendship with alleged CS members such as Kevin and Khaliel Kelly, as well as Joe and Lee Bennion. Judge Bagley is retiring on September 30, 2024, and in the current civil stalking injunction matter I am fighting with Joe and Lee Bennion, he scheduled the evidentiary hearing for November, a month a half after his retirement.

The coincidences appear to be corroborative of the Hamblin sisters’ allegation that the CS has gatekeepers who can intercede to obstruct or quash any attempt to expose their activities and hold them accountable. The problem for the CS is this: today, people have decided to fight to ensure that David Lee Hamblin and Roselle Stevenson are brought to trial, and to ensure that the alleged members of the CS face membership councils within the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints. Your efforts to those ends are critical. Thanks for reading, and thanks for spreading the word, and thanks for fighting.