West Jordan • For the second time this month, Latter-day Saint filmmaker Sterling Van Wagenen was given a prison sentence for sexually assaulting a young girl.
Without a word from Van Wagenen, 3rd District Judge Katie Bernards-Goodman on Tuesday handed down a sentence of six years-to-life, one week after a Utah County judge did the same. The resolution was part of a plea deal, in which Van Wagenen admitted earlier this year to two child sex abuse charges in two separate courtrooms.
Both guilty pleas involve the same victim, a young girl who reported that Van Wagenen abused her between 2013 and 2015, when she was between 7 and 9 years old.