He spent more than seven years in a prison for sexually abusing his sons — crimes he said he didn’t do.
Even his adult sons say they made up the allegations a dozen years ago that led a jury to convict him.
Hawkins’ sons told The Salt Lake Tribune in August that they had lied on the witness stand as children because they were mad at their dad, upset at the way they were treated at home and how their father disciplined them.
Jeremy Hawkins, now 25, and Nathan Hawkins, 21, said they told the story knowing it would put their father in jail — but not realizing then the lifelong ramifications it would carry.