The Daily Spectrum from Saint George, Utah • 2

Local Region I I Hi I 'All ,1 Spectrum Zi Saturday, August 10, 1991 1 H. -1. U-i '4 1 Panel says patriarchy may prolong child sexual abuse Hi I I 1.7 lT nocent, although the church leader changed his mind later. "I hold no ill-will towards him," she said. "He just didn't know." Marsha's statements underscored suggestions by Robey and Blanchard that church leaders not be too quick to take sides when allegations are made.

Blanchard said church leaders, particularly the late church president, Spencer W. Kimball, and Gordon B. Hinckley, first counselor in the governing First Presidency, have specifically addressed child sexual abuse from the pulpit in recent years. Pamphlets and training seminars for lay leaders also are available for the first time. "The manner in which church leaders respond to a report of sexual abuse is very important," Robey said.

Unfortunately, more often than not the reports are ignored or discounted, he said. Robey, who often works with the church's department of social services, said the attitude is often reflected in incidents where Mormon sex abusers are confronted with their crimes. "I'll ask them why they committed their offense, and often they'll say, 'My sexual wants and desires aren't being met in my Robey said. "So I'll ask them why they didn't get a divorce or even have an affair. "And they'll look back at me appalled and say, 'But that would have been he said.

"The manner in, which church leaders respond to a report of sexual abuse is very important." Carlos Y. Robey, Executive Director of the Intermountain Sexual Abuse Treatment Center worst thing she could do. First, she said, it "devalues" the child. Second, sex abuse "thrives in secrecy." Sex abusers are often forgiven too quickly, allowing them to continue their behavior, she said. Such actions also give the wrong message to victims.

Blanchard related an incident in which a 17-year-old boy, who admitted molesting five young girls one week, was back serving sacrament to his victims the next Sunday in church. ISATC Executive Director Carlos Y. Robey said Utah ranked second in the nation two years ago in reported incidents of child sexual abuse. He cited a 573 percent increase over the last six years. A woman identified only as "Marsha" recounted the story of her husband, an active chur- chgoer, who sodomized her 2-year-old daughter for several months.

She said the man at one point managed to convince a church General Authority that he was in vA Shreeve in custody CEDAR CITY Cedar City Police Chief Pete Hansen has polygamist group leader Arvin Shreeve, who is wanted in connection with sexual abuse investigations in Ogden, in custody after Shreeve turned himself in at the Cedar City Police Department Friday morning. Shreeve was held at the Iron CountyUtah State Correctional Facility and transported north Friday afternoon by the Weber County Sheriff's Department. (Spectrum Dan Stewart) SALT LAKE CITY (AP) Denial, naivete and a doctrine based on a strict patriarchy can foster conditions that prolong child sexual abuse among Mormon Church members, according to therapists. A packed auditorium attended a panel entitled "Child Sexual Abuse in the IDS Community," Friday at the Sunstone Symposium. Panelists, who included a prosecutor, therapists and the mother of a young victim, said the Mormon faith is only now beginning to realize the magnitude of the problem.

"We foster a very strong denial system," springing partly from a misguided need to appear better' than others, said panel moderator Marion Burrows Smith, co-founder and former executive director of the Intermountain Sexual Abuse Treatment Center. Often, according to therapists on the panel, lay church leaders will brush off or even discount reports of sexual abuse. In some cases, according to Utah County Child Abuse Council program chairwoman Laura Blanchard, the accusation is turned around on the child. "I've had instances, recent cases, where the child was asked, 'What did you do to cause or 'You must have she said. Just last week, she said, a woman called to ask if maybe it would just be better for everyone to ignore the rape of a 17-year-old girl-She told the woman that was the Salt Palace SALT LAKE CITY (AP) Judging by the results of a seismic report card, pro basketball and hockey fans are lucky a major earthquake never shook the ground beneath the Salt Palace during a game.

Salt Lake County inspectors, using a method to score how well a building will withstand an earthquake, gave the Salt Palace a minus 2.9. Anything below a positive 2 is considered in need of changes. The highest possible score is 6. Salt Lake County owns the Salt Palace, home to Utah's professional sports teams since the late Beginning October, th teams Will play in the newly constructed Delta Center, a privately 'Greens' hope for role in politics flunks earthquake test A 4 Such a history keeps both Republican and Democratic leaders from making any allusions to the "mouse that roared" when talking about Idaho's seven-month-old Greens movement. Both Idaho GOP chairman Phil Batt and his Democratic counterpart, Mike Wetherell, deny their parties have given environmentalists short shrift.

Batt said Republicans are environmentally concerned, but seek solutions that "won't put people out of jobs." Stivers, who says he has worked for both mainstream parties in the past, predicts the Greens will lure Republicans and Democrats equally. "The Democrats may be closer already to some of our stands on issues such as ecology and social justice, but I think we will surprise the Republican Party with our drawing power," he added. It could be years, perhaps decades, before a Green legislator is elected in Idaho, Stivers and Sullivan admit After all, another third party, the Libertarians, got on the Idaho ballot in 1976 and has yet to elect a legislator. But that doesn't discourage the Greens. "We want to put at least as much effort into running people for local office city council, mayor, school board as we do for the Legislature.

That's real grassroots democracy," Sullivan said. The Greens tentatively plan an October meeting in Boise to fashion a rough state platform. Environmental and conservation issues likely will among the first planks hammered into place. Until then, the state's Greens will have no unifying stands except their commitment to the movement's "10 Key Values" ecological wisdom, grassroots democracy, nonviolence, personal-social responsibility, decentralization, community-based economics, post-patriarchal values, respect for diversity and future focus. But Stivers can speculate, using the Sawtooth Greens' viewpoints as a base, how the party as a whole may feel on certain issues after October's meeting.

For example, fish advocates and environmentalists have petitioned the National Marine Fisheries Service to list the declining stocks of salmon as endangered species. Protection of sockeye, Chinook and other salmon runs on the Snake River once the largest in the world is crucial, Stivers agrees. Greens likely will favor moving away from nuclear energy in favor of alternatives such as solar and wind power a stand that might bring them into conflict with supporters of the Idaho National Energy Laboratory. mittees of correspondence. Along with chapters in Boise and McCall, the Sawtooth Greens will court those they feel have been disenfranchised by the mainline Republican and Democratic parties especially environmentalists.

"We see as part of our constituency members of the Idaho Conservation League, the Snake River Alliance, the Sierra Club groups that are concerned (with environmental issues) but are restricted by their bylaws from political activity," said Sullivan, Sawtooth Greens secretary. "The Greens can provide that political expression." In Europe, the Greens have been potent political force for nearly a decade. The party has become a refuge for environmentalists and peace activists, and in 1983 won nearly a million votes and 28 seats the German Parliament. Saturday, Aug. 1 0.

Aixu-VUm Ire E3SO iww a matt wi asw ucuor the western valleys with strong gusty winds near thunderstorms. Lows in the 50s and 60s. Highs in the mid-80s and 90s except near 100 in the lower deserts. Nevada Sunday mainly in the afternoon. Highs from the mid-90s to near 110 along the Colorado River.

Lows in the mid-60s to mid-70s. East, rain will cover Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, and Massachusetts. A band of thunderstorms will run from Virginia down through central Texas. SUN VALLEY, Idaho (AP) -Huddled in this mountain resort community with a dozen or so compatriots, the Green Party's Gary Stivers and Mike Sullivan are plotting a revolution in Idaho politics. They dream of a day when Idaho Greens will grow from their current 40 members statewide to thousands, firmly establishing their non-violent, egalitarian, environmentalist message in the electoral marketplace.

But first the Greens must find 8,179 Idahoans willing to sign petitions guaranteeing their fledgling party a spot on the 1992 general election ballot. "After Aug. 30. the campaign will begin, and we 11 have one year to gather the signatures. I don't think we'll have any trouble at all," said Stivers, coordinator of southern Idaho's Sawtooth Greens, one the state's three Green com Weather Tr Accu-Wssthsr Of cwt for noon, cold gumaum mtdm ruma MCN lOt (NOMfM MUD Utah Partly cloudy Saturday through Sunday with widely scattered afternoon and evening thunderstorms Saturday increasing Saturday night and Sunday.

Southerly daytime winds 10-25 mph in Northern Arizona Mostly sunny Saturday with a slight chance of mountain thunderstorms in the afternoon. Partly cloudy Saturday night. Widely scattered thunderstorms Nation The forecast for Saturday calls for showers in Washington, Oregon, Montana and Idaho. Thunderstorms will be seen in Arizona and New Mexico. In the Temperatures REGIONAL Pocatello Cedar City Logan High Low Precip 92 48 00 92 55 00 90 51 00 a in owned arena.

County commissioners have been wondering whether to keep the old arena, destroy it or remodel it into convention space. But the seismic report card may spell its doom. "It's obviously one of the main determining factors as to whether we leave it up or not," Commissioner Randy Horiuchi said. He said architects estimate a cost of between $2 million and $5 million to remodel the arena so that it will withstand an earthquake measuring 6 on the Richter scale. "I personally would like to see it (the arena) stay around, but that $2 million to $5 million staring us in the face is a- factor," Horiuchi Commission Chairman Jim ings don't mean all the convicts will be released.

See me for State Farm -Eamily Insurance Ciisclviip I fn jn Bradley said destruction of the arena is only one of the options he is considering. But the cost of strengthening the building may prohibit any other options, he said. The report card may not be accurate for all buildings examined, said Carl Eriksson, the county's inspection services section manager. Adults 12-54 $5.00, Children 3-11 $3.00, Sr. Citizens 55-up S3.00 214 N.

1000 E. US PM SHOWS FRIDAYS UO SATURMYS ONLY! Ml SEATS AT 5:00 Ml BE S.00 aa PURE LUCK Starring: Martin snort, Danny Glover 700 jMp.M. nor Asm rt-9gmin REGARDING HEKBT (p13 Starring: Harrison Ford 7:00. 9:00 P.M IRT-107MINJ DOC HOLLYWOOD Starring: Michael J. fox 700 1 MO P.M.

MOMfOS RT-103MINJ OMEMAS 905 S. MAIN 5:00 PM SHOWS FRIDAYS AND SATURDAYS WHY! All SEATS AT 5:00 WILL BE $3.00 HOT SHOTS Starring: Chartlesneen 7:001 9:00 P.M. RT-SOMINJ DELIRIOUS Starring: jonn candy 7:00 P.M. ONIY TERMINATOR II Starring: Amok) Scnwanenegger W0P.M.OI.y ST-137MINJ ROBIN HOOD (PCrUI Starring: Kevin costner 7:10 A KMX) M. OT-140MINJ mow own DOtlBUE IMPACT 00 Starring: jean Claude Van Damme I MO P.M.

NO PASSES 9rr i04MM.I uuftTOsmusjoumn Starring: Keanu Reeves, Ale winter 7fflP.M.OmV IPT4SMINJ irnuun ADMISSION POINT BREAK Starring: Patrick Swayte, Keanu Reeves MO P.M OW.V RT-133MINJ BINCO Starring: anoy Williams, David Rascne 7:00 PM ONtV NOPASSfS RT-B7MIM MLPJUMTI OMISSION MOBSTERS aa Starring: Christian Slater, Patrick Oempsey M0P.M.ONIY RT-1O0MINI 68 E. Tabemjcie OPsasMomsAwes CLOSED tUNDAVSI ALL SEATS SI CITY SUCKERS mmsi Starring: Billy Crystal AD 3S N. MAIN omtMOHTSAwren CLOSED SUNDAYS! ALL SEATS SI CLOSED FQL1 RCr.lODCLiriG LookirY good HURRICANE Nancy Beaumont prepares 'April's Amber' to enter the 4-H Horse Show Friday at the Washington County Fair. (Spectrum Nancy Rhodesl Parole board reviewing 900 requests CARSON CITY (AP) State Parole Board members should be able to meet an Aug. 20 deadline for reviewing more than 900 parole requests from convicts who got a break from the 1991 Legislature, a spokeswoman said today.

"We're busting our tails right now," said the board's executive secretary, Susan McCurdy. FREE AND "Everyone's here writing orders and making copies. This week and next week we're going to be doing them all." Ms. McCurdy said that with all four board members, five hearing representatives and board staffers working, the deadline for reviewing the parole requests can be met. She also stressed that the hear JEWELRY CLEANING FREE INSPECTION! at IC' lie i Denver 81 56 cdy El Paso 89 66 .02 cdy Flagstaff 86 50 rn Helena 93 62 rn Honolulu 90 80 clr Kansas City 72 65 clr LasVegas 108 75 cdy Los Angeles 86 64 cdy Miami Beach 90 82 cdy New Orleans 92 75 rn New York City 75 68 1.43 cdy Phoenix 103 87 cdy 75 62 3t cdy Reno 93 53 clr St Louis 74 68 .09 clr San Diego 74 61 cdy San Francisco 70 58 cdy 90 82 cdy Santa Fe 82 56 rn Seattle 65 60 .55 Tucson' 102 76 .04 rn 86 72 1.24 clr 92 67 00 96 58 00 96 65 00 102 73 00 90 52 00 93 64 00 Hi Lo PrcOtlk 87 67 rn 64 53 rn 92 72 .89 cdy 100 67 cdy 77 66 .02 Cdy 77 52 cdy 79 62 .01 Clr 78 64 .35 cdy 97 77 mis will vim fwSw him xi ILM' Provo Salt Lake City St.

George Vernal Wendover NATIONAL Albuquerque Anchorage Atlanta Boise Boston Cheyenne Chicago Cleveland Dallas-Ft Worth Hi Nn MM mmm km Imtm I'l nil nvsn tl in Sherrii Hansen ,2 910 S. Btuff St. George 'SZfX 628-9067 Slate Farm insurance i.h Compan (H Home Ofhcet Bioominglon, Illinois umi IVATCil FOR THE riEt! DIKIE TE2EATEQ Don't Chance Losing Precious Gems; Have Them Checked Regularly By Our Expert Staft. 673-2552 43 E. St.

George Blvd. ir..