- LDS positions: Church employee, LDS Social Services counselor,
- Criminal case: Convicted, Jail, Pleaded guilty,
Case report
David Novak was a Mormon church member who worked for LDS Social Services as a counselor for child sex abuse victims.
He sexually abused a girl from when she was 11 years old to when she was 13.
He was sentenced to jail, and released after serving about 40 days.
“I will make sure that I will never, ever harm anyone again,” he told the judge.
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Born: 1951
- LDS mission: unknown
- During alleged crime/failure: Church employee, LDS Social Services counselor,
- When accused: Church employee, LDS Social Services counselor,
- Lived in: Utah,
- During alleged crime, lived in: Utah,
- When accused, lived in: Utah,
- Victims: 1 victim,
- Latest update: 2000: released from jail in Utah after serving about 40 days for sexually abusing a girl
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Case information sources
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- Former LDS social worker is released from jail
- Former counselor is accused of sexually abusing girl
- Judge allows ex-LDS therapist to leave jail Novak promises no further harm, will get counseling
- W. Bountiful social worker admits to sexually abusing 13-year-old girl
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Former LDS social worker is released from jail
Publisher: Davis County Clipper
Date: 11 Apr 2000
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Source type: News articleFARMINGTON (AP) - A former social worker who was employed by the Mormon church has been released from jail after serving about 40 days for sexually abusing a child.
A judge granted David Novak's request for release on Tuesday.
"The experience being here haas been the hardest experience in my life," Novak told 2nd District Judge Jon Memmott.
"I will make sure that I will never, ever harm anyone again."
Memmott placed Novak under the supervision of the sex offender unit of Adult Probation and Parole.
Novak pleaded guilty in December to forcible sexual abuse, a second-degree felony, for assaulting a 13-year-old girl. He was sentenced to one year in jail and three years probation at a Feb 16 hearing.
"I just don't think jail is going to serve any purpose here," his attorney John Walsh told the court.
Novak must complete an intensive sex offender treatment program.
"I want, more than anything to change," Novak told the court.
"Therapists sometimes need therapy."
He was a counselor of child sex abuse victims for LDS Social Services.
Novak surrendered his license as a clinical social worker to the Utah Department of Occupational and Professional Licensing on March 7. He cannot reapply for five years.
Novak also has been excommunicated from The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, which Walsh said "he dearly loved and which he admitted he shamed."
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view all information sources Former counselor is accused of sexually abusing girl
Publisher: Deseret News
Date: 6 Jan 1999
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view all information sources Judge allows ex-LDS therapist to leave jail Novak promises no further harm, will get counseling
Publisher: Deseret News
Date: 7 Apr 2000
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view all information sources W. Bountiful social worker admits to sexually abusing 13-year-old girl
Publisher: Deseret News
Date: 24 Dec 1999
Archive.org
Source type: News article
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