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Child sex abuse trial sees further delays
The Herald Journal - 5/3/2017
A late-summer trial has been set for Dustin Mangum, a 38-year-old Richmond man accused of sexually abusing two children in two separate cases last year.
Mangum has been incarcerated since Aug. 19, 2016, when he turned himself in to law enforcement.
The Cache County Sheriff’s Office said Mangum confessed then to molesting a girl 11 years ago.
The alleged victim, who is now an adult, told family members about the abuse, and Mangum reportedly turned himself in after he began hearing that they were upset about what occurred.
He has been charged in 1st District Court with eight counts of sodomy on a child and 15 counts of aggravated sexual abuse of a child.
He was later charged with two additional counts of sodomy on a child in connection with a teen who told her family she was sexually abused by him more than 10 years ago.
Mangum was set to go to trial at the end of this month, but that trial setting has been pushed off until Aug. 15, 16 and 17.
Dustin J. Mangum