Lance Jacks was a Mormon church member in Roy, Utah; convicted of sexually abusing a 4 year old girl; had just gone through the temple right before sexually abusing the child.

Lance Jacks was a Mormon church member who perpetrated a sex crime in 2012 in Roy, Utah.

Jacks was charged in 2012 with two felony counts: one count of first-degree felony sodomy on a child, and one count of first felony aggravated sexual abuse of a child.

In 2013, the first charge was dismissed as part of a plea deal.

Thanks to the plea agreement, a six-year prison term was suspended, and Jacks was sentenced instead to 550 days in jail, with credit for time served. He was also sentenced to 10 years of probation.

A person familiar with the case told Floodlit that mainstream news reporting erred regarding the story of how Jacks got access to his victim.

The victim’s mother originally agreed with Jacks’s mother to have her watch the child, the source said. When the mother returned, Jacks’s mother declined to be paid, indicating instead that Lance should be paid because “he did all the work,” according to the source.

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Sources

  1. STATE OF UTAH vs. LANCE EUGENE JACKS, Utah Court Xchange, June 28, 2025.
  2. Roy man gets jail, probation in sex abuse case Courts • He pleads guilty to aggravated sexual abuse of child., Salt Lake Tribune, December 5, 2013.
  3. Lance Eugene Jacks, Utah Department of Public Safety, June 28, 2025.

  • 1. STATE OF UTAH vs. LANCE EUGENE JACKS

    • 28 Jun 2025
    • News article
    • Utah Court Xchange

    SECOND JUDICIAL DISTRICT - OGDEN DISTRICT COURT
    WEBER COUNTY, STATE OF UTAH
    STATE OF UTAH vs. LANCE EUGENE JACKS
    CASE NUMBER 121902459 State Felony
    CHARGES
    Charge 1 - 76-5-403.1 - SODOMY ON A CHILD - 1st Degree Felony
    Offense Date: October 23, 2012
    Disposition: May 07, 2013 Dismissed (w/o prej)
    Charge 2 - 76-5-404.1(4) - AGGRAVATED SEXUAL ABUSE OF A CHILD - 1st DegreeFelony
    Offense Date: October 23, 2012
    Disposition: May 07, 2013 Guilty

    SENTENCE PRISON
    Based on the defendant's conviction of AGGRAVATED SEXUAL ABUSE OF A CHILD a 1st Degree Felony, the defendant is sentenced to an indeterminate term of not less than six years and which may be life in the Utah State Prison.
    The prison term is suspended.
    SENTENCE JAIL
    Based on the defendant's conviction of AGGRAVATED SEXUAL ABUSE OF A CHILD a 1st Degree Felony, the defendant is sentenced to a term of 550 day(s)
    Credit is granted for time served

    ORDER OF PROBATION
    The defendant is placed on probation for 120 month(s).
    Probation is to be supervised by Adult Probation & Parole.
    Defendant to serve 550 day(s) jail

  • 2. Roy man gets jail, probation in sex abuse case Courts • He pleads guilty to aggravated sexual abuse of child.

    • 5 Dec 2013
    • News article
    • Salt Lake Tribune

    A Roy man was sentenced to jail time and lengthy probation after he admitted to sexually abusing a 4-year-old girl he baby-sat.

    Lance Eugene Jacks, 19, was originally charged in 2nd District Court with sodomy on a child and aggravated sexual abuse of a child, both first-degree felonies.

    In May, as part of a plea agreement, Jacks pleaded guilty to aggravated sexual abuse of a child, and the sodomy charge was dismissed.

    On Wednesday, Judge Scott Hadley sentenced Jacks to 550 days in jail and 120 months probation, and also ordered the man to complete a sexual abuse therapy program. He is also prohibited from living in a home with a child for at least a year.

    According to charging documents, Jacks — a family friend and baby sitter of the victim — forced the girl to perform sex acts on him at his home on Oct. 23, 2012.

    After the girl told her mother what happened, the mother went to the police and the girl was interviewed at the Children's Justice Center.

  • 3. Lance Eugene Jacks

    • 28 Jun 2025
    • News article
    • Utah Department of Public Safety

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