Tribune Archive 1996
ROLLY & WELLS 11/29/96
Salt Lake Tribune
Byline: By Paul Rolly and Joann Jacobsen-Wells
THANKFUL FOR . . .
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BAD TIMING.--
Deadlines are a pain. Especially after it has been met and it's too late to make a change.
Take the Brigham Young Magazine for BYU alumni. The November issue profiles distinguished graduates. Page 60, where graduates of the 1970s are featured, profiles Gerry Pond for producing a syndicated radio program financed by the LDS Church.
The issue had gone to press before Pond pleaded guilty to lewdness charges
involving exploitation of a 14-year-old girl.
Gerry Pond, '70 (Darlene Cook, '69), Taylorsville, UT, is the executive
producer of the award-winning Times and Seasons, a s ries of 48 public
service radio programs funded by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day
Saints.
...
Page 60
From altavista.digital.com search engine there were 74 hits on Sept 13 1998 for "gerry pond"
73 were for some executive in Canada and then the following:
http://cc.weber.edu/aml/log9607b.aml
Association for Mormon Letters Roundtable (AML-List) Archive for July 16-31, 1996 167 messages
By Jerry Johnston Deseret News staff writer
Journalist Hugh Hewitt calls his series of interviews on PBS "Searching for God in America." But by the time he arrived in Utah, he'd scaled back the dragnet considerably. He was staking out the human heart.
...
The questions he asked were probing and personal.
"I began my conversation with Elder Maxwell by saying, 'Yes, you and I believe extraordinary things,'" Hewitt told Gerry Pond on Pond's KSL radio broadcast. "Nevertheless, that doesn't turn us into extremists or fanatics. . . . But the modern culture, in the last 40 years, has begun to believe that we are."
It appears that Gerry Pond has dropped off the face of the internet, at least that search engine.
Now when I searched the SLTrib his name as spokesman for the church
was all over the place.
More later.
From States News Service
Former Church Spokesman Parole Hearing - (POINT OF THE MOUNTAIN STATE PRISON) -- Former Mormon church spokesman and convicted child molester Gerry Pond is expected to be denied parole. This week, Pond is at his first parole board hearing since he was sentence to a one- to-15 year prison sentence 18 months ago. He had confessed to attempting to coerce a 14-year-old neighbor into performing oral sex.
[I don't how is spinning this one, but he succeding in getting the young
girl to preform oral sex on him]
Ex-Mormon Broadcaster To Be Paroled
(c) The Associated Press
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) -- The former host of a Mormon Church radio program will be paroled in February after serving two years for molesting a 14-year-old girl.
The Utah Board of Pardons cited Lloyd Gerald Pond's status as a model inmate and psychological tests that indicated he isn't a pedophile.
Pond, 53, will be released to a halfway house for six months to a year. He will be listed on a sex-offender registry and supervised by parole officers for 10 years.
Pond hosted a weekly radio program for the church and worked nights as a technician at a radio station. He met the girl at church when she was 11 and offered to help her with careers in radio and modeling.
Weekly for the next three years, the girl modeled for him at the radio station, wearing lingerie and swimsuits. Pond asked her to record radio spots that increasingly included sexually explicit phrases.
In November 1996, Pond tricked the girl into performing oral sex. He pleaded guilty to forced sexual abuse and was sentenced to one to 15 years in prison.
AP-NY-09-11-98 0827EDT
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