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Deseret News Share this story Adobe Stock image TOOELE — A registered sex offender currently facing a charge of child human trafficking now faces criminal charges in yet another case. Craig Thomas Defa, 27, of Salt Lake City, was charged Tuesday in 3rd District Court with enticing a minor, a second-degree felony. On Jan. 6, a Tooele police officer working with the FBI Child Exploitation Task Force was posing as a 13-year-old girl online when Defa contacted him, according to charging documents, and offered the “girl” $100 to perform a sex act. When the undercover officer stated “she”...

Deseret News Share this story Adobe Stock SALT LAKE CITY — A Salt Lake man was charged Monday with enticing a minor after allegedly engaging in explicit online conversations with three undercover officers. Sidney James Branch Jr., 30, is charged in 3rd District Court with enticing a minor, a second-degree felony; and six counts of dealing in harmful materials to a minor, a third-degree felony. On Aug. 30, Branch is accused of communicating online with a member of the State Bureau of Investigation who was posing as a 13-year-old girl. Over the next several weeks, Branch sent the “girl” s...

Streets, they had women dying in the streets there. in dropped in '99 when it was kosovo. only 51% of people said, okay, we'll help. again, women and children dying in the streets of libya. in 2011, that number dropped to 32%. and now with syria, the military action when the question is asked, do we respond in syria because they used chemical weapons, the support here is less than 50%. it's just 42% of americans. spider marks, are we losing our ability to stomach what it costs in blood and treasure to help out people around the world? >> well, ashleigh, you know the difference that we have in ...