We often went to a toy store called "Little Dickens" that had high-end toys. I collected most of my animal toys from there. One day I was looking at a cheetah toy that I wanted. It was an animal I didn't have yet. I saw Redacted pick a couple of the toys up (including the cheetah that I was looking at) from the animal shelf that was on display. She put them in her purse. She looked around and showed me the elephant (which was really big and expensive). In front of the salesperson she asked me if I wanted it. I begged her to buy it for me but she said that I had to earn it. She told the salesperson bringing Redacted here was the best way she could get Redacted to work. She laughed and smiled and then she told us we were going to our lessons and didn't have time to shop. Later that day at the Provo house she made go into her room and do a "catnap" with her. She put the cheetah on the dresser by the bed, undressed and then told me what to do to her. I knew the cheetah would be payment-or at least I hoped she would give it to me. She made me suck on her vagina and stick my fingers in her vagina, as well as suck on her breasts and grab and massage her body. She then started falling asleep while she spooned me. I told her that I wanted the cheetah. She told me that I couldn't have it for nothing. She told me that I could have it after three "catnaps" with her because it was more expensive. I told her I didn't really want it any more. After she fell asleep I left and brushed my teeth.
-Victim Statement 3, pp. 22-23, Katherine Hamblin.
The Hamblin Victims Statements contain small details that often have greater significance. In the case of Experience #20, Shoplifting a toy, Katie Hamblin’s recollection involves her mother Roselle Hamblin’s use of toys as bribes for sexual performances. The name of the shop, Little Dickens, is of great importance.
Little Dickens is a reference to the devil, or a devilish child. It’s a curious choice for a toy shop in Provo, Utah, that catered to the children of Latter Day Saints. The owners of Little Dickens, Sharon Eubank and Mimsi Harrison, established Little Dickens in 1992. Eubank and Harrison met while working for U.S. Senator Jake Gary, and they claimed to have hatched their idea for a children’s toy store during their time in Washington, D.C. According to Eubank, the two “mailed our first orders from all the little towns along the way driving back to Utah.”1
The business grew quickly, eventually opening a storefront on University Parkway. Eubank and Harrison had a long standing relationship that extended well beyond a business partnership. The women lived together over decades, with their addresses matching up over the years.2 3Their lives intertwined through various jobs, their business at Little Dickens, and their eventual callings to the LDS Relief Society.
In 1998, Eubank sold Little Dickens, and took a job doing data entry in the LDS Welfare Department, and then she took full-time employment in LDS Humanitarian Services handling international shipping. By 2005, Eubank took a hiatus and moved to France, only to then return in March 2007, where she began working with LDS Charities. She rose to the regional director of LDS Charities in the Middle East, and in 2009 she was called to serve a member of the Relief Society General Board under Julie Beck.
Julie Beck is the daughter of William Grant Bangerter and Geraldine Hamblin, the first cousin one time removed of David Lee Hamblin. David Lee Hamblin’s great great grandfather Wallace Hamblin had two sons, Henry Marcene Hamblin and Claudius Lee Hamblin, who would father Geraldine Hamblin Bangerter and David Lee Hamblin’s father Robert Lee Hamblin. The central thesis of the Hamblin Victims’ Statements is that the CS is a multi-generational group operating within the LDS and positioning its family members into positions of influence and prominence within the LDS.
The network is everything for the CS, and the fact that Julie Beck called Sharon Eubank to serve as a member of the Relief Society General Board is therefore significant. By 2011, Eubank was appointed as the director of LDS Charities, and in 2017 she was called to serve as first counselor under Relief Society President Jean B. Bingham.
Eubank has never been married.
Instead, she served a mission in Helsinki, Finland, where she would have overlapped with Miriam “Mimsi” Harrison, who was serving her own mission in Helsinki. Harrison’s mother Vuokko Irmeli Väänänen met Harlan Foster Harrison while he was on his mission to Finland, and they were married and sealed in the St. George Temple in 1961. Vuokko was known to her family as Emily, and her obituary listed Sharon Eubank as an “unofficially adopted daughter.” Kate Harrison Getzschman’s obituary also listed Sharon Eubank as her unofficial sister.
The relationship between Eubank and Harrison has been the subject of speculation for years, as some suspect that they are lesbians. Eubank did nothing to dissuade such speculation when she invited Jessica Livier Mendoza de la Vega to speak in a keynote at the 2021 Brigham Young University Women’s Conference. De la Vega is a self-identified queer woman who used the platform to advocate for LDS members using preferred pronouns, and she characterized her queer identity as her eternal identity.
https://www.youtube.com/live/KtTwPQseMzU?feature=share&t=1618
Eubank stood before the attendees and referred to de la Vega as her friend, and gave her a platform to endorse inclusivity of the LGBTQIA agenda. Even more extraordinary was the fact that de la Vega is a Young Women’s president, even though she openly espoused an identity as a queer or lesbian woman. De la Vega has made a career of her dual identities as a queer woman who is also a Latter Day Saint, even though the clear standards of Scripture make no allowance for a heterosexual orientation that encompasses extramarital or premarital, non-monogamous relationships, let alone same sex relationships.
In her appearance on Questions from the Closet, hosted by Charlie Bird and Ben Shilaty, two gay LDS men, she addressed how coming out to her husband affected her marriage. De la Vega’s recollection detailed her fear that she would be attracted to her missionary sisters, and her coming out story to her boyfriend and eventual husband. The reality is that de la Vega’s agenda is clearly to normalize LGBTQIA identity within the LDS, and bring the Church into alignment with LGBTQIA identity-as in making same-sex relationships equal to those of opposite-sex couples.
There is no doubt whatsoever that if the LDS were to sanction same-sex relationships, de la Vega and other queer church members would prefer to be married and sealed to someone of the same sex. That is their ideal, and their goal within the LDS: to bring about a policy change that places same-sex relationships on the same level as opposite-sex relationships, so that lesbian and gay couples can be sealed together eternally within LDS temples.
The fact that Sharon Eubank and Jean B. Bingham used the Relief Society presidency to bring de la Vega on the stage at the BYU Women’s Conference is all the more extraordinary. When placed against the backdrop of Eubank’s own four decade same sex relationship with Mimsi Harrison, it becomes even more stunning. There is clearly an active contingent within the LDS seeking to move the Church to acceptance of and sanctioning of same-sex relationships, and they are making strides to that end.
Conclusion
There are no accidents or innocent coincidences within the CS and its networks. It is clear that CS members patronized each other’s businesses, and that they were permissive towards same sex sexual contact, as the Victims’ Statements detail dozens of same-sex encounters between the men and women who were alleged members of the CS. Gordon Bowen’s divorce laid his homosexuality bare, as he was forced to admit to hiring male prostitutes in Salt Lake City, Las Vegas, and to acknowledge his decades of homosexual conduct from the Eighties forward. IRA’s investigations into the wider CS network has turned up credible allegations that Dixie Leavitt, the father of former Utah Governor Mike Leavitt and former Utah County Attorney-and alleged pedophile and child rapist-David Okerlund Leavitt is a closeted bisexual man.
The fact that Roselle Hamblin took her children to a toy store in Provo named for the Devil is not a mere coincidence, as the store in question was run by two women who are clearly lesbians. The overwhelming majority of CS members named in the Victims’ Statements support gay rights, with Joe and Lee Bennion flying a rainbow flag in their storefront in Spring City. Their position on abortion, homosexuality, same sex marriage, and other policies fly in the face of the LDS’s doctrine.
The truth is that many LDS members named by the Hamblin children as CS members were never orthodox members of the LDS. They hid their true beliefs and practices over the years, engaging in sexual conduct that is clearly unbiblical and explicitly condemned as immoral. This conduct formed the basis of their ongoing depraved abuse of children.
The familial relationships, the extended network, and the open espousal of positions that fly in the face of the clear doctrine of the LDS evince a group that is increasingly emboldened to openly challenge the Church’s position on sexual morality. The fact that Sharon Eubank retained her position as an LDS employee after inviting de la Vega to the stage at a Young Women's conference is stunning in its implication. The queering of the LDS is real, and it is blatant.
The relationship between Eubank and Harrison parallels that of Wendy Watson and Sheri Dew, who lived together for decades before Russell M. Nelson married Wendy Watson. Even after Watson and Nelson were married, they moved into the same neighborhood as Sheri Dew, where they purchased a home right down the street from Dew. Dew later added Watson to her Warranty Deed for her home at 1348 Elk Hollow, just down the street from 1370 Cove Circle.
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Under Russell M. Nelson’s leadership, the changes to the LDS’s ordinances have been significant. The Endowment Ceremony has been changed to remove the language where wives covenant to hearken unto their husbands just as their husbands hearken unto God. Eve’s role has been expanded to have more dialogue than Satan, and the covenants have been changed to give men and women the same promises of service to Heavenly Father. Put simply, these changes represent a revolutionary rearrangement in gender roles within marriage as it pertains to the temple ordinances.
The evolution of the temple ordinances dates back to 1990, when language requiring women to obey their husbands was replaced by the “hearkening” language. Under Russell M. Nelson, the hearkening language has been done away with, and Adam and Eve are both classified as helpmeets, whereas before Eve was Adam’s helpmeet. In all, 14 changes were made to the Endowment ceremony. The majority of those changes point to an LDS hierarchy that is moving towards liberalized attitudes towards the role of women within marriage, and placing women on the same level as their husbands. The Endowment Ceremony specifically condemned Adam for hearkening unto his wife’s voice, and in doing so disobeying Elohim.
The revisionism of today’s LDS Church, and its increasingly open and permissive attitude towards sexual sin as the foundation of identity within the LDS, is evidence of the increasing influence of individuals whose positions and beliefs are not rooted in scripture or sound doctrine. It is also evidence that the Hamblin children were telling the truth when they alleged that the CS had made inroads within the LDS to advance its own doctrines, many of which were liberalized takes on the LDS’s existing doctrine.
Instead of expelling Gordon Bowen and others within the CS who engaged in same sex immorality, the LDS left the door open for their return and influence on the the Church. In doing so, it paved the way for the doctrinal and policy innovations being seen now, while simultaneously glossing over the alleged abuses committed by Gordon Bowen and other members of the CS, as well as an obvious contingent of heretical LGBTQIA members who rose through the ranks for decades.
Orem-Geneva Times, pg. 6, May 21, 1997.
Davis County tax records show that Harrison and Eubank co-owned 212 East Edgewood Circle in North Salt Lake, and they owned the property from 2008-2020. https://www.daviscountyutah.gov/recorder/property-search/TaxInfo/13790009/?year=2020
Davis County tax records also show that Eubank and Harrison co-owned 1198 North 850 East in Bountiful, from 2000 to 2003. https://www.daviscountyutah.gov/recorder/property-search/TaxInfo/20850006/?year=2000
You're doing a great work..thank you!
Fantastically documented and articulated!