The LDS Church of Satan: David Hamblin

Hamblin's Methodology: Possible Origins

David Lee Hamblin is currently facing two felony cases for child rape, and he is incarcerated in a Utah County jail cell awaiting trial. Though he eluded culpability for the 2012-14 allegations made against him by his own daughters, Hamblin is now apparently facing the prospect of dying in prison.

The victims’ statements written by his daughters point to an interesting ploy Hamblin and his alleged accomplices utilized. Victim Statement #2 details the first group peyote ceremony in Gunnison, Utah, where James and Linda Mooney, Joe Bennion, David Hamblin, and Lynne Whitesides entered a teepee and proceeded to force the victim to drink peyote tea. James Mooney then began grilling her, saying that she needed to confess that she had sought to “beguile men” and that she “had called [rape] in to [herself]” even from the time she was an infant.¹ ²

When the victim did not respond in the desired manner, James Mooney began calling spirits into himself and the other attendees. The victim was then raped by one of the men, likely David Lee Hamblin, who said she had “betrayed his trust, mocked his authority, and…resisted him too many times.” Lynne Whitesides held her down with another woman while the rape took place.

Hamblin was heavily influenced by C. Terry Warner, who came to the Hamblin house on multiple occasions, including to speak to a group.³

Victim Statement #3 identifies Warner as one of the participants in a Bible Study in Provo that “turned into a ceremony and an orgy at the end.” According to the victim, she and her sisters were offered to “the most important people in David and Rosie’s eyes.” ⁴