Sex abuse

WASHINGTON — Lt. Col. Jeffrey Krusinski, the Air Force’s top officer for sexual assault prevention, had a trial set for July 18 at his first court appearance on a charge of groping a woman in a suburban Virginia parking lot.

Krusinski, dressed in civilian clothes, didn’t enter a plea to the misdemeanor charge at his arraignment Thursday in Arlington County court. His attorney, Sheryl Shane, asked Judge Richard McCue to schedule a trial for September.

OGDEN — A juror in the Jamie Waite trial who may have been threatened in the parking lot of the courthouse is the centerpiece of a motion for a new trial for Waite.

The former Ben Lomond High School swim coach was sentenced last week to 210 days in Weber County Jail. Waite, 37, was convicted at trial in March of four counts of forcible sexual abuse for a sexual relationship with one of her 17-year-old charges on the boy’s swim team.

AMERICAN FORK -- A former Payson junior high school secretary has been acquitted of a charge of having sexual relations with a teenage boy.

OREM — A local-level Mormon church counselor is accused of sexually abusing a 13-year-old girl while she helped clean a building in his ward.

OGDEN — Area Christian girls of all faiths who are looking for a fun time, worship, learning and shopping are invited to a teen girl conference from 6 p.m. to 11 p.m. May 3 and from 8:30 a.m. to 3 p.m. May 4 at Canyon Road Assembly of God Church, 1390 Canyon Road, in Ogden.

The free event, called Not for Sale, will center on ways girls can keep their bodies clean and safe.

The conference is now in its second year and was attended by more than 300 girls representing 28 churches last year.

SALT LAKE CITY — A suspended University of Utah swim coach sexually abused a teenage girl years ago in Arizona and urged her to keep quiet about it, saying, “People will think I’m Chester the Molester,” according to a police report obtained Tuesday by The Associated Press.